--- title: "Why does my Notion export duplicate titles?" canonical: "https://xerj.org/answers/notion-export-duplicate-search-results" updated: "2026-08-21" source: "content/answers/notion-export-duplicate-search-results.md" --- # Why does my Notion export duplicate titles? **TL;DR** — The duplicate titles come from the export layout and from the 2 documents XERJ writes per Markdown file. Re-indexing is not the cause. A captured run indexed the same export twice and returned 8 documents both times, with byte-identical ids. ## Agent prompt ```text Act as a coding agent. Read https://xerj.org/llms.txt, start a local XERJ node, unzip a Notion Markdown and CSV workspace export, run `xerj autoindex ./notion-export --url http://127.0.0.1:9200 --prefix nt --progress plain` twice, POST a match_all sorted by ax_path and ax_locator after each run, compare the returned _id lists byte for byte, and report every file the autoindex-catalog marked junk with its reason. ``` ## Commands ### Command 1 Note: Index the unzipped Notion export. Run the same line twice to test for duplicates. ```sh xerj autoindex ./notion-export --url http://127.0.0.1:9200 --prefix nt --progress plain ``` ### Command 2 Note: List every document with its path and locator, in a stable order, after each run. ```sh curl -s -XPOST http://127.0.0.1:9200/nt-*/_search -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"query":{"match_all":{}},"size":100,"_source":["ax_path","ax_format","ax_locator"],"sort":[{"ax_path":"asc"},{"ax_locator":"asc"}],"track_total_hits":true}' ``` ### Command 3 Note: Find a phrase that Notion exported into 2 different pages. ```sh curl -s -XPOST http://127.0.0.1:9200/nt-*/_search -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"query":{"match_phrase":{"body":"meerkat quarterly roadmap"}},"size":10,"_source":["ax_path","ax_format"],"track_total_hits":true}' ``` ### Command 4 Note: List every exported file with its family, status and refusal reason. ```sh curl -s -XPOST http://127.0.0.1:9200/autoindex-catalog/_search -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"query":{"term":{"doc_kind":"file"}},"size":500,"_source":["path","format","status","records","reason"],"sort":[{"path":"asc"}]}' ``` ## The export layout repeats the title Notion writes a page as `