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Bringing Markdown into Undra

Adopting Undra does not mean a migration. Because it works on plain files, your existing Markdown is usable the moment you point Undra at it.

If you have years of notes in another app, the scary part is usually the import: the reformatting, the broken links, the lock-in you cannot undo. Undra sidesteps that. It treats ordinary Markdown as first-class, so there is nothing to convert and nothing to commit to before you have tried it.

Your existing Markdown just works

Put .md files in your workspace folder, from another app or straight from disk, and they show up as notes right away.

  • you can open and edit them immediately
  • Undra does not rename them, so your filenames stay exactly as they are
  • when you save through the app, Undra can add a small native frontmatter block (a stable id plus a little metadata like timestamps) without disturbing your content

Your links keep working regardless. Wikilinks point by name, so [[a note]] finds it wherever it lives, and when you rename or move something, Undra updates the links that point at it so nothing breaks. The id is not what holds a link together; it is just durable metadata Undra keeps for itself (and a tiebreaker when two notes share a title), so a plain Markdown file with no frontmatter links exactly the same.

Bring files in with staged drops

When you drag files or whole folders into Undra, a staged drop lets you decide how they come in before anything is copied. You can:

  • choose where the imported notes should land in your workspace
  • keep the original folder structure or flatten it
  • bring in only the files you actually want

Nothing gets trapped

Importing into Undra is not a one-way door. The files stay plain Markdown in a folder you own, so you can keep editing them in other tools, sync them however you like, or walk away with them at any time. Undra adds links, search, and structure on top, never a wall around your work.

Would rather not import at all?

If you want to leave files where they are, a folder portal links a real folder on your computer into Undra so you can work on it in place, with no copying.

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