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title: "Archipelago: map your Notion workspace | Warren Perez"
url: https://warrenperez.com/en/archipelago/
description: "Map your Notion workspace for free. Archipelago turns your databases and their relations into a visual map, entirely inside your browser."
language: en
---
# Map your Notion workspace in 30 seconds

Your databases become islands Free tool 100% local and private

Drop your Notion export here

A **.zip** file exported as “Markdown & CSV”.No account. No Notion connection. Nothing to authorise.

Before setting sail

## Export your Notion workspace

Archipelago is a visual mapping tool for Notion workspaces, built from their Markdown and CSV exports. It turns the databases and the relations actually present in the export into an interactive map.

**Your export stays in your browser.** No account, no upload, no storage. [Learn more](https://warrenperez.com/en/archipelago/docs/#confidentialite)

Archipelago does not need access to your Notion account. You simply give it an export of your workspace.

1. In Notion, open **Settings**, then **Workspace**, section **General**.
2. Click **Export all workspace content**.
3. Choose **Markdown & CSV**, database views **Default view**, and exclude files and images.
4. Turn on **Include subpages** and **Create folders for subpages**.

Notion hands you a **.zip** file. Drop it into Archipelago as it is.

**Only want to map part of your workspace?** You can also export a single page or a teamspace. Archipelago will map that scope and nothing else.

Reading the map

## Your workspace becomes an archipelago

Archipelago turns the structure of your Notion workspace into a nautical chart. Every element matches something actually found in your export.

Legend

### An island

A database. Its size follows how many entries it holds: a few rows make an islet, several hundred take up more ground.

### The hatching

How full the database is. The more its entries have their properties filled in, the denser the island looks.

### A shipping route

A relation actually in use between two databases. An empty relation leaves no trace in a Notion export, so it does not appear on the map.

### A convoy

How many links travel a route. A few links bring out a small sailboat. The busiest routes carry larger ships.

### A lighthouse

The main hub of the archipelago. It marks the database that the largest number of links on the map converge on.

### A black flag

An isolated database. No relation in use connects it to the other databases on the map. That is not necessarily a problem: some databases are meant to stand alone.

## This is not an audit

Archipelago knows nothing about your processes, or how much a database matters to your business. It shows the structure. You read it.

### The map shows what is actually used

An empty relation does not appear: Archipelago shows the workspace as it is filled in, not only as it was designed.

[How Archipelago reads your export](https://warrenperez.com/en/archipelago/docs/#lecture-export)

WebMCP compatible

## Your AI agent can take the helm too

In a WebMCP compatible browser, an AI agent can work with Archipelago directly. It can draw a map, read the one on screen, highlight certain databases or add notes to them.

Archipelago then highlights what it found on the map itself, while you watch.

- Show me everything connected to Clients.
- Which databases are isolated from the rest?
- Show me the dependencies around Projects.