Import and Portability

Migration is useful when you already have durable project notes, meeting notes, or research notes that should become searchable AI work context.

Do not migrate everything just because it exists. Wenlan works best when selected material is useful to future agents, not when the memory layer becomes a bulk file mirror.

Use wenlan store or normal capture flows for selected durable notes. For larger moves, use a small script that reads source files you choose and posts distilled facts to /api/memory/store.

Start with a representative sample, then recall against it before moving a larger archive. That gives you a chance to see whether the migrated context is useful or noisy.

Markdown links and wiki-style relationships are useful signal, but they are not the same as the source-backed page model.

Links can still help when you rewrite selected notes into explicit memories. Source-backed pages are stronger when Wenlan can trace the synthesized claim to the source memories that produced it.

If another app is your knowledge-base source of truth, keep using it for polished notes. Use Wenlan for the AI work loop: captures, handoffs, source-backed pages, recall, and cross-client context.

Running both is possible through MCP, but you still need a human rule for which system owns which kind of context.

Wenlan projects readable artifacts under ~/.wenlan, including pages and session handoffs. You can open those files in an editor or point a Markdown reader at them.

Plain-text access is not the same as full Wenlan behavior. Capture, recall, dedupe, distill, review, forget, and index updates still need the daemon and CLI/MCP paths.

Imported vaults and exported-looking Markdown can contain sensitive project history. Do not publish ~/.wenlan, sync it to a cloud drive, or attach it to an issue without redaction.

For backups, treat ~/.wenlan and the daemon data directory as private application data. If you need to recover or migrate machines, verify with wenlan doctor afterward so the daemon, index, and MCP config agree.