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Import Notes.
Ideas worth bringing in.

Practical guides for the messy, meaningful work of importing data. From your first CSV to a maintainable AI knowledge collection.

Review format policies, authorization, isolated parsing, resource limits, inert previews, and cleanup across the complete import lifecycle.

Separate logical jobs from processing attempts and make duplicate handling, partial outcomes, and uncertain commits understandable.

Import prompts as maintained artifacts with explicit roles, declared variables, review history, repeatable tests, and a rollback path.

AI workflowsAugust 20, 2025

Prepare a knowledge collection with meaningful chunks, source lineage, permission boundaries, and evaluation grounded in real questions.

Connect original images, descriptive metadata, derivatives, and publication review in a maintainable product-image library.

Build a document import that preserves headings, handles uncertain extraction, and connects useful text to its original source and revision.

Plan an authorized website migration with clean extraction, source provenance, meaningful structure, and a reviewable destination collection.

Data engineeringDecember 29, 2024

Separate transformations from validation, make every conversion explainable, and design useful errors around an explicit destination contract.

SpreadsheetsNovember 19, 2024

Navigate CSV quoting, workbook sheets, leading zeroes, date ambiguity, and correction-friendly previews without losing the meaning of your data.

Turn external records into clear, validated application data. A practical introduction to contracts, transformations, errors, and job lifecycles.

Import Notes.Ideas worth bringing in.