[Feature Request]: Read metadata from Markdown headers when importing

[rrmistry]

Description

I have many markdown files that contain metadata in a header. Below is one example:

---
title: Page title
updated: 2021-11-11 14:55:00Z
created: 2021-11-11 14:54:43Z
tags: ["notes", "blog"]
---
... page content ...

I want this metadata to be imported correctly into AFFiNE when using the import functionality via zip file

Use case

This is useful for bulk import-export from another note-taking tool (e.g. Microsoft OneNote).

My previous feature request: #11094 was asking for an end-to-end import support.

I have since figured out a way to do this in stages. E.g. I found a way to bulk export out of OneNote using alxnbl/onenote-md-exporter

This gets me halfway there already, but when I try to zip the extract and bulk import, then the markdown gets loaded as-is into the page content without the metadata being properly interpreted.

At least the bulk import is successful, which is something. But all the pages get the current date-time as the creation date (instead of respecting the metadata and setting expected create/update dates). And no tags are imported.

Anything else?

Multiple people are having this issue. E.g.: ​#6176 - Import tags from Obsidian Markdown files

Any help on this would be much appreciated.

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I tried to see if I could submit a PR, but I can't get the dev container + project to build and run locally. See: #11114

Are you willing to submit a PR?

• Yes I'd like to help by submitting a PR!

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[hwangdev97]

Dope idea! Lots of people have been asking us for that, so it's def on our roadmap. 🗺️