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The Knowledge page in your workspace is the fastest way to get docs into Nora without setting up a full Foundry pipeline.

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Ways to upload

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Drag & drop

Open a document collection. Drop files anywhere on the page. Uploads run in the background; you’ll see per-file progress and a done state. Supported formats:
  • Text: .txt, .md, .mdx, .rst, .tex
  • Documents: .pdf, .docx, .doc, .pages, .rtf
  • Web: .html, .htm
  • Data: .csv, .tsv, .xlsx, .json
  • Presentations: .pptx, .key
  • Email: .eml, .msg
  • Code: .js, .ts, .py, .go, .rs, .java, .rb, .php, .cpp, .c, .sql
Max 100 MB per file. Larger files should come through a Foundry pipeline.

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Paste URLs

Click Import URL and paste a link. Nora fetches, extracts the readable content (drops nav, ads, cookie banners), and adds it as a document. Works with:
  • Public web pages (readability extraction).
  • Public Google Docs.
  • Notion public pages.
  • Raw file URLs (uses the file type of the response).

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From CLI

Good for scripted bulk uploads.

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What happens after upload

  1. Extract — text and tables pulled from the file.
  2. Dedupe — content hash checked against the collection. Identical uploads are skipped.
  3. Chunk — split into retrievable pieces using the collection’s default chunker.
  4. Enrich — embedding, auto-tagging, entity extraction.
  5. Index — written to the retrieval index. Live within seconds.
You can watch it happen in the document’s row — status ticks through uploading → extracting → chunking → indexing → ready.

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Setting collection defaults

Each collection has default chunker settings and default enrichers. Change under Collection settings → Ingest defaults. New uploads use the current defaults; existing chunks aren’t re-processed unless you click Reprocess.

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Metadata

Add metadata during upload:
  • Tags — free-form or from your workspace tag palette.
  • Folder — organize within the collection.
  • Source URL — where the document originally lived. Shown as a citation.
  • Custom fields — any workspace-defined field.
Metadata can be edited any time from the document’s row — changes take effect immediately without re-processing chunks.

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Bulk upload

For > 100 files, use the CLI or a Foundry pipeline. The web upload is fine up to a few dozen files at a time but slows above that.

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Failed uploads

Common causes:
  • Encrypted PDFs — Nora can’t extract text. Decrypt first.
  • Image-only PDFs — enable OCR in collection settings (adds latency, small cost).
  • Files above 100 MB — split or use a pipeline.
  • Corrupt files — extractor will retry once, then fail. Re-export the file cleanly.
Every failure shows the reason in the document row and a full log under details.