Moving from Notion to Mikipage

Spend your time writing, and let AI turn your notes into knowledge you can read and share. If maintaining your Notion setup has become work of its own, that's the reason to consider Mikipage.

Why Mikipage?

One focused loop, a simpler app

Notion's breadth lets you build a workspace around many different jobs. Mikipage focuses on one: write → AI organize → share. Capture your thoughts, have AI turn them into useful pages, and share those pages with your family, friends, or group.

That focus lets us keep the design simple. You have fewer controls to learn and fewer decisions to make before you can write. Our effort goes into helping you capture, retrieve, and connect your knowledge. The founder explains these choices in What I Don't Use Mikipage For.

Write naturally; organize afterward

When you organize knowledge through Notion's databases and page hierarchies, you take on the work of designing and maintaining that structure: where things belong, which properties matter, and how the views should work. That flexibility is useful when you want to build a system. It can also interrupt the thought you came to save.

In Mikipage, start with whatever comes naturally: a few sentences, fragments, bullets, a journal entry, or a messy idea. You don't need a structure before you have something to say. There are no folders to choose, and tags are optional.

Give a Miki page instructions such as “Gather what I've learned about parenting, organized by theme.” AI finds relevant notes and writes a structured page with citations. The same notes can also support a timeline or a family guide, without being moved or copied. You choose what you want to understand; AI does the work of bringing the material together.

Make your knowledge useful to your people

Your notes can feed a private page for you or, when shared to a group, pages built from several people's contributions. Everyone keeps ownership of their writing; AI brings it together into something the group can read. Scattered travel research, family decisions, or study notes become a shared reference without someone having to write and maintain every overview by hand.

If those are the jobs you use Notion for, Mikipage offers a simpler way to do them. The rest of this guide explains how to bring your existing knowledge along.

What moving means

Your existing writing becomes notes. Miki pages are new, living summaries AI builds from those notes. A Notion page does not automatically become a Miki page just because both products use the word “page.”

If you also use Notion to run a task board, CRM, calendar, or business workflow, keep that part in Notion or another purpose-built tool. You can move your knowledge without moving every job your workspace does.

The conceptual shift

Notion gives you building blocks for designing a workspace. Its databases contain pages with properties, and views let you present those collections in different ways. You decide how those structures serve your work. See Notion's introduction to databases.

Mikipage starts with a smaller loop: write → organize → share. You capture notes; AI finds relevant material and synthesizes it into pages according to your instructions; you share with your people when you're ready.

In your Notion workflow	In Mikipage
Write a journal entry, idea, or reference page	Write a note, in Markdown or plain text
Put pages into a hierarchy or categorize database entries	Keep notes together; use search, optional hashtags, and pages to find and organize them
Write and maintain a topic overview yourself	Give a Miki page instructions; AI synthesizes the relevant notes with citations
Reuse material in several places	One note can feed several pages without being copied
Collaborators edit a shared document	Each person owns their notes; shared notes feed the group's pages
Maintain a database with interactive views and structured fields	Keep that workflow in a tool that supports databases; bring useful knowledge into notes

For example, your Notion travel area might contain destination research, trip journals, a packing checklist, and a booking database. Move the research and journals into notes. Create pages such as “Japan travel advice” or “What our family learned on previous trips.” Keep the active checklist and booking workflow wherever you manage them today.

A Miki page is an interpretation of source material, so review its citations when accuracy matters. Refresh it as notes change. Your imported notes remain the source: AI does not silently rewrite them, and only their owner can edit them. See [1] and [2].

Why we chose notes and Miki pages

Mikipage focuses on two kinds of knowledge content: what you wrote and what AI synthesizes from it. Groups provide the people and sharing scope around that content.

This is an opinionated choice. We want you to capture a thought without first deciding its folder, database, property schema, or place in a dashboard. Organization can happen afterward, and the same material can support several perspectives: a timeline, a practical guide, a comparison, or a family wiki.

A database serves a different need. Typed fields, relationships, formulas, views, and workflow rules make structured records useful. Supporting them well would mean adding a second way to create, edit, organize, and share information, along with more decisions before you can write. That would change the product we are building.

Our choice keeps the interface small and puts our effort into finding relevant notes, producing useful pages, preserving sources, and combining a group's knowledge. It also keeps the boundary clear: your writing is yours; AI maintains the synthesis.

You can write a Markdown table or a checklist in a note. A page can generate a comparison table. Those are text, however: they do not provide database formulas, validated records, task reminders, or an interactive board. Database support is outside Mikipage's intended scope, rather than a prerequisite we're asking you to wait for. The API and MCP offer additional ways to work with the same content model; they don't turn it into a database product.

What can migrate

Here, “can migrate” means the content has a useful representation in Mikipage. Some items need conversion or manual cleanup; it does not mean every item transfers automatically.

Notion content	What you can retain	What changes or needs attention
Written pages and database-item bodies	Text as Markdown notes, including supported headings, lists, links, quotes, code, and tables	Review formatting after conversion; split long documents into focused notes
Subpages and page hierarchy	Each page's writing; its original path can be recorded in the note	The hierarchy does not become a folder tree in Mikipage
Database property values	Exported values as labeled text alongside the item's writing	They are snapshots, not typed, sortable database properties
Tags and categories	Plain text, or selected categories converted to optional `#hashtags`	No database select fields or managed taxonomy is recreated
Images and downloadable files	Files uploaded and referenced from notes, within your plan's limits	Rewrite local file links; externally hosted or missing assets need separate attention
Links between pages	Links rewritten to the corresponding imported notes	Requires matching source pages to destination notes; missing targets and block anchors need review
Original dates, authors, and source URLs	Provenance written into the note when available	Do not assume native ownership or timestamp fields will match Notion
Existing wiki articles and overviews	The exact exported writing as ordinary notes	Create separate Miki pages if you want AI-maintained versions

Attachments are stored, but AI cannot read inside them. If an important fact exists only in a PDF, image, or spreadsheet, extract or describe it in note text before expecting it to appear in a page. Attaching a CSV preserves a file; converting its relevant rows to text makes those facts available to AI. See [3].

Notes have a size limit, and files and storage have plan limits. Check [4] before a large move. Split an oversized page by topic or section, or attach the original and write a useful summary; an attachment alone is not a searchable substitute for the text.

What does not migrate as working functionality

These features have no equivalent to recreate in Mikipage:

Databases as databases: property types, formulas, rollups, live relations, linked database views, filters, sorts, boards, galleries, and calendar views. Exported values or relationship names can survive as text; the underlying behavior does not.
Workflow machinery: buttons, automations, forms, recurring tasks, reminders, and integrations. A note describing a due date will not send a reminder.
Workspace presentation: dashboard layouts, columns, covers, icons, custom styling, and embedded apps. Keep useful content or an external link, and expect a simpler presentation. Synced blocks do not remain linked copies.
Collaboration state: Notion permissions, guest access, teamspace membership, co-editing rights, original comment threads, and revision history. These are not restored as native Mikipage access rules, comments, or versions.
Existing public addresses: Notion URLs and published-site navigation do not become Mikipage URLs or redirects. Publishing is a separate step; see [5].

An export may also omit information before Mikipage ever receives it. Keep the original workspace and export while you verify the result. If comments matter, Notion offers an HTML export option that includes comments; retain that as a separate archive rather than expecting a Markdown import to recreate discussions. See Notion's export documentation.

Example: a reading database

Suppose a Notion entry has a title, author, status, rating, and your review. Its useful knowledge can become a note like this:

# The Left Hand of Darkness — reading notes

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Reading status at export: Finished
My rating at export: 5/5
Original location: Books / Science fiction

## My review
The parts that stayed with me were…

Then create a Miki page with instructions such as: “Summarize what I've learned from science fiction, organized by theme, with references to my reading notes.”

The review and recorded values survive. Updating a status field, filtering a database view, or calculating an average rating does not. For exact accounting or record queries, keep a database or spreadsheet as the authority.

A practical migration path

This guide proposes an export-and-convert workflow, not a one-click Notion importer. For a small collection, use the website to create notes and attach files. For a larger collection, use a prepared Markdown folder with the existing folder-sync tooling, or a conversion script built against [6]. MCP can help create text notes, but does not upload file bytes; see [7].

1. Choose a small, useful collection

Start with one topic you actually want to read or share: a journal, a family trip, or a set of reading notes. Separate durable knowledge from active workflows. Keep the workflows in their current tool.

Decide who should own imported material. Every Mikipage note has one owner. A workspace imported through your account becomes your notes, even if the text credits other contributors. For a group moving together, each person should import their own writing where practical; decide ownership explicitly for coauthored work.

2. Export from Notion

On a page, open ••• → Export, choose Markdown & CSV, and enable Include subpages for nested content. For a workspace, use Settings → Workspace → General → Export all workspace content.

Unzip the export and keep an untouched backup. It contains Markdown for pages, CSV for databases, and exported assets. Check that it includes the pages you expected: inaccessible pages and some teamspace restrictions can cause omissions. See Notion's export instructions.

3. Prepare the content

Work on a copy of the export:

Give each note a meaningful first-line # Title.
Preserve useful context, such as the original path, source URL, and known dates, as ordinary text. Record unknown values as unknown rather than guessing.
For databases, combine each row's relevant exported values with its page body into one note per item. Avoid importing the CSV row and page body as duplicate notes. Retain the CSV separately if you want the original tabular snapshot.
Simplify unsupported blocks to readable text. Check callouts, toggles, embeds, and complex layouts by comparing them with the original.
Split oversized notes and collect the referenced files. If you rename exported files, update their links too.

Preserve your original wording during conversion. AI synthesis comes after import; it should not be the only surviving copy of your writing.

4. Import privately and check the result

For a handful of notes, paste the prepared Markdown into Write, then upload images and files through the editor. Recreate important internal links once both notes exist.

For bulk work, the existing mikipage-sync CLI can upload a prepared Markdown folder and resolve supported local note and file links. If you already have that tool installed, preview an upload to your Personal space:

mikipage-sync ./notion-prepared --space personal --mode upload --no-delete --dry-run

Review the plan, then run the same command without --dry-run to apply it. This is a general Markdown sync tool, not a Notion converter: it does not turn CSVs into notes or recreate Notion features. Review unresolved links and skipped files. Keep its .mikipage state folder so later runs can recognize imported items. This uploads a snapshot; it does not keep watching Notion for changes.

Before expanding the import, compare several notes against Notion. Check text, titles, images, files, internal links, database values, and ownership. Count imported and skipped items so missing material is visible. Search for facts you know should be present.

5. Create pages for the questions you care about

From Organize, create a few pages with specific instructions. For example:

“Summarize our Japan research by city, distinguishing confirmed plans from ideas.”
“Bring together my parenting notes into practical lessons, keeping disagreements and uncertainties visible.”
“Make a reading guide from my book notes, grouped by theme, citing the sources.”

Refresh the pages and inspect their citations. Pin essential source notes if needed. You don't need a page for every old folder or database: choose pages for the things you want to understand. See [2] and [8].

Create a private group, invite your people, and share the appropriate notes so they can feed its pages. Review the actual audience rather than copying assumptions from Notion's permissions. Publishing a group is a separate decision.

Once the pilot works, repeat in batches. Choose a cutover date for the knowledge you've moved so you don't accidentally maintain two diverging copies. Keep Notion for workflows that still need it, and retain your export as an archive.

A proposed simpler bulk importer

A dedicated Notion migration helper could make the preparation above easier without adding databases to Mikipage. This is a proposal, not an available feature. It would run locally on the exported folder and use the existing API or sync path to:

Preview how many notes and files would be created, with oversized items, unsupported blocks, missing assets, and unresolved links called out.
Convert pages and database entries into Markdown notes, merging row values with their bodies and preserving source context without AI rewriting the originals.
Track source-page identities against destination note IDs so links can be rewritten after creation and interrupted runs can resume without duplicating completed imports.
Upload referenced files, report anything that could not transfer, and leave the original export untouched. Start privately, with no automatic sharing or publishing.

This follows a useful precedent in MemryNote's Notion migration guidance: export as Markdown & CSV, then convert pages to Markdown notes and databases to structured notes. MemryNote provides a built-in importer. For Mikipage, the useful lesson is to preserve the information in a simpler form; the next step is to build Miki pages from it, rather than reproduce the old workspace.

Start with [9] for the basic write–organize–share walkthrough, or [1] for the vocabulary you'll use after the move.