Adding Pdfs

[rig]

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What I’m trying to do

Moving my evernote docs file to Obsidian. Found Importer from Evernote - works a treat. Built up mainly document filing system. All good.
Have many other pdf’s I want to store in this filing system.
After much searching under import & pdfs etc (better import of pdf’s plugin no longer working) etc by chance found method below

Things I have tried

create a note, give it a title,
new line type " ! " and drop pdf file after that.

works fine but I find list of the pdf’s at the bottom of my vault
as well as in the folder I set the note up in

If I delete the pdf at the bottom the note is also deleted

I am almost how I wanted but not quite
Any help ??

[ariehen]

You can drag a PDF into a note, it will ![[embed.pdf]] it, and add it to your vault.

You can also drag it into your vault like this:

Noob question: How to import a .md file to an Obsidian Sync Vault

Your vault isn’t stored in Obsidian - I mean you can see it in Obsidian - but it’s just a folder on your drive somewhere. So, outside of Obsidian, you can use File Explorer (Windows) or the Finder (mac) and drag your .md file into your vault. If Obsidian is open, sync will kick in and sync the file to your remote vault. In addition to what emaiax said, you can also drag the file into Obsidian’s Files tab and it will be added as a note like this. Dragging onto your vault name at the top will add…

For where the actual PDF (or other file type) ends up, in Settings > Files & Links, you can set the Default location for new attachments to tuck attachments away into a folder so they don’t show up in the root of your vault.

[rig]

thanks for your replies and help
I can’t seem to get this to work consistently
sometimes it works and then another time it doesn’t and I can’t see why
its too complicated
I give up …