Moving, import and export
From Confluence, Evernote, Google Docs and Word
Step by step from Confluence, Evernote, Google Docs, Microsoft Word and OneNote to Flowplan – with the page tree, images and attachments.
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From Confluence
- In Confluence: Space settings → Export (Confluence Cloud: Space settings → Export space). Choose HTML or XML, each with all pages.
- Import the ZIP in Flowplan as above (source Confluence or automatic).
What it turns into:
- The space's page tree becomes the page tree in Flowplan (from
index.htmlor the parent pages inentities.xml; where a page is missing there, the breadcrumbs help). - Info, tip, note and warning macros become callouts (info → note, tip → tip, note → warning, warning → caution), code macros code blocks, expand toggles, task lists tasks with their status.
- Images and attachments are uploaded; attachments the text does not show are listed as links at the end of the page. Links to other pages of the space point to the imported pages. Anchor links (
Page.html#Page-Heading,#…on the same page,ac:anchorin the XML export) lead to the heading or anchor. - In the XML export only the current version of each page counts; older versions and blog posts are skipped. Creation and modification dates are kept.
- Macros without a counterpart (such as table of contents or Jira queries) are dropped; the preview names them.
From Evernote
- In Evernote, save a notebook via … → Export notebook as ENEX. Put several notebooks into one ZIP.
- Import the
.enexfile or the ZIP in Flowplan.
What it turns into:
- Every note becomes a page; with several notebooks, every notebook becomes a page with its notes below.
- The note text (ENML) becomes normal text with formatting, lists and tables; checkboxes become tasks.
- Images and attachments (embedded in the ENEX file) are uploaded and shown where they were in the text; PDFs and other files as links. Attachments without a place in the text go to the end.
- Tags, created/updated and the source address are kept – best import as a new database, then they are properties to filter and sort by.
- Encrypted text cannot be imported; the preview warns.
From Google Docs
- At takeout.google.com (opens in a new tab) choose Drive and set the format for documents to HTML (recommended) or Microsoft Word. Single documents also work via File → Download → Web page (.html, zipped) or Microsoft Word (.docx).
- Import the Takeout ZIP, the web page ZIP or the
.docxfile in Flowplan (source Google Docs; single.docxfiles also work with Microsoft Word).
What it turns into:
- Every document becomes a page, Drive folders become parent pages.
- Headings, bold, italic, underline, strike-through, nested lists, tables and links come along; Google's redirect links point straight to their target again. Links to headings and bookmarks in the same document (
#h.…,#kix.…) stay links to that place. - Images are uploaded – including the ones embedded in the HTML.
- Word files: paragraphs, headings, lists (numbered and bulleted, also nested), tables (with merged columns), links and images. Comments, footnotes and headers/footers are dropped.
From Microsoft Word
Import Word documents (.docx) under Settings → Import & export → Import with the source Microsoft Word (a .docx file is also detected automatically):
- One document: choose the
.docxfile. It becomes a page titled by its file name. - Several documents: put the
.docxfiles into a ZIP and choose the ZIP. Every document becomes a page, folders in the ZIP become parent pages. When everything sits in a single folder, that folder is left out.
Paragraphs, headings, bold, italic, underline, strike-through, lists (numbered and bulleted, also nested), tables (with merged columns), links and images come along. Comments, footnotes, headers and footers are dropped. Word's lock files (~$….docx) are skipped.
Older Word files (.doc, Word 97–2003) cannot be read by Flowplan. Open the file in Word, LibreOffice or Pages and save it as .docx, then import it. When a ZIP holds .doc or OneNote files next to .docx files, the .docx files are imported and the others are listed in the preview with the reason.
OneNote
Flowplan does not read OneNote files (.one, .onetoc2, .onepkg) directly – it recognises them and tells you what to do. The way goes through OneNote's own export:
- In OneNote for Windows, open the page or section and choose File → Export, with Word Document (.docx) as the format.
- Import the
.docxfile (or several as a ZIP) in Flowplan with Microsoft Word.
If your version of OneNote offers no export as a Word document but only PDF, import the PDF as a notebook (as from GoodNotes) or upload it as a file to a page.