Importing from Notion

If your notes already live in Notion, you can move them across in two ways.

Option 1: Upload a Notion ZIP export

This works without any Notion login on Paper's side and brings everything across in one go.

In Notion, open Settings → Export all workspace content.
Pick HTML as the format (recommended - preserves nesting and formatting better than Markdown).
Notion emails you a .zip file. Download it.
In Paper, click + Add source, open Import from Notion, choose Upload ZIP, and pick the zip.
Paper unpacks the zip and creates a page for each top-level Notion page, preserving sub-page nesting.

This is the recommended path for one-time migrations.

Use this for fine-grained imports - for example, pulling in a single Notion database or a few pages without exporting the whole workspace.

Go to notion.so/my-integrations and create a new integration. Enable Read content and Read comments.
Copy the Internal Integration Token (it starts with ntn_ or secret_).
In Notion, share each page or database you want to import with the integration.
In Paper, open Import from Notion, switch to Connect API, paste the token, and click Connect.
Pick which pages or databases to import. Paper streams progress as it imports.

You can import individual pages, full databases, or a mix. Sub-pages of selected pages are imported recursively.

Page titles, body text, headings, lists, quotes, callouts, and code blocks.
Databases come across as Paper boards with the same columns. Properties become table cells.
Images are downloaded and re-uploaded to Paper's own storage so they stay accessible.
Comments are imported as page comments (API import only - ZIP exports don't include them).
Sub-pages become nested pages.

Inline databases (databases embedded inside another page) sometimes can't be fetched through the Notion API. When that happens Paper inserts a callout in their place explaining the page couldn't be imported.
Re-running an import doesn't merge with previously imported pages - it creates new ones.
File attachments other than images aren't carried over.

If your notes already live in Notion, you can move them across in two ways.

This works without any Notion login on Paper's side and brings everything across in one go.

In Notion, open Settings → Export all workspace content.
Pick HTML as the format (recommended - preserves nesting and formatting better than Markdown).
Notion emails you a .zip file. Download it.
In Paper, click + Add source, open Import from Notion, choose Upload ZIP, and pick the zip.
Paper unpacks the zip and creates a page for each top-level Notion page, preserving sub-page nesting.

This is the recommended path for one-time migrations.

Use this for fine-grained imports - for example, pulling in a single Notion database or a few pages without exporting the whole workspace.

Go to notion.so/my-integrations and create a new integration. Enable Read content and Read comments.
Copy the Internal Integration Token (it starts with ntn_ or secret_).
In Notion, share each page or database you want to import with the integration.
In Paper, open Import from Notion, switch to Connect API, paste the token, and click Connect.
Pick which pages or databases to import. Paper streams progress as it imports.

You can import individual pages, full databases, or a mix. Sub-pages of selected pages are imported recursively.

Page titles, body text, headings, lists, quotes, callouts, and code blocks.
Databases come across as Paper boards with the same columns. Properties become table cells.
Images are downloaded and re-uploaded to Paper's own storage so they stay accessible.
Comments are imported as page comments (API import only - ZIP exports don't include them).
Sub-pages become nested pages.

Inline databases (databases embedded inside another page) sometimes can't be fetched through the Notion API. When that happens Paper inserts a callout in their place explaining the page couldn't be imported.
Re-running an import doesn't merge with previously imported pages - it creates new ones.
File attachments other than images aren't carried over.