Process

1. export as html from bear

2. clean up any special characters in file names and urls (#, ?, emoji, etc.)

3. Optional: create an index.html file that lists all the sub files if you want to be able to click around them

4. get files on a server

5. convert relative image urls to absolute server paths. Notion won't pull relative paths but it will pull in files from a server.

   // wont import
   /path-to-image.jpg
   
   // will import
   <https://test.com/path-to-image.jpg>
   

6. Click the import button in the sidebar of notion

7. Select the html import option

8. Select all of your local html files and click ok

   • Import failed when trying to do thousands at a time so ended up doing in batches of 100

9. Notion will import into a root level page date stamped with import time. For further refinement, you can pull into a temp database and clean up the data then move items to your main database.