Importing highlights from Goodlinks

I use the excellent GoodLinks (macos) for reading and highlighting articles, and then export the highlights to Markdown docs. These .md docs have frontmatter that should map to Capacities properties when importing, but this is flaky. I'm particularly having trouble getting Capacities to recognise weblinks.

This is the frontmatter that appears in the .md docs exported by Goodlinks.

title: How The ‘AI Job Shock’ Will Differ From The ‘China Trade Shock’ sourcelink: https://www.noemamag.com/how-the-ai-job-shock-will-differ-from-the-china-trade-shock/author: Nathan Gardels created: tags:

When importing to Capacities,

and map to Capacities properties as expected, but Capacities will not recognise the url. Any advice on how to fix this?

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Team Capacities·5 months ago

Thanks for the detailed example. Based on the current bulk import docs, only specific frontmatter keys are treated specially (type, title, description, tags, createdAt/created, collection), and there is no documented support for auto-detecting a URL field like sourcelink as a weblink or source URL, so this is likely not supported right now. As a workaround, you would need to map sourcelink manually to a URL property during the import mapping step. Docs for reference: https://docs.capacities.io/reference/bulk-import and Obsidian-style imports: https://docs.capacities.io/migration/import-from-obsidian