# Best practices for migrating from Roam? **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [October 26, 2020, 4:53am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/best-practices-for-migrating-from-roam/7596 "2020-10-26T04:53:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![ryanjamurphy](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/ryanjamurphy/32/334_2.png) [@ryanjamurphy](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/ryanjamurphy)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/best-practices-for-migrating-from-roam/7596/2 "2020-10-26T21:30:13Z")
I think you’ve found most of the existing solutions, sadly: effort. When I imported from Roam (and I was lucky to not have a lot of items) I had to find and replace a lot of things, especially indentation and bullet-items. For what it’s worth, [BBEdit](https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/) may be your best friend. It has incredible find and replace capabilities that operate over e.g., a specific selection of plain text files, or all open text files, etc. Try the free trial. It may be all you need! > [@Kabo](#): > > - fuzzy date creation via Roam42: again, no idea - anyone? If you mean natural language dates, I believe @argentum already has a plugin based on the new and shiny API for this: [GitHub - argenos/nldates-obsidian: Work with dates in natural language in Obsidian](https://github.com/argenos/nldates-obsidian) > [@Kabo](#): > > - iOS integration [NotePlan 3](https://beta.noteplan.co/) or [1Writer](https://1writerapp.com/) are your best options here, in my opinion. > [@Kabo](#): > > export This is tough for now, though I think we’ll see some export plugins very soon. Until then I export to iA Writer, clean up the brackets, and go from there. Also, not migration-related, but see [Using (and automating) Obsidian on macOS - Meta Post](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/using-and-automating-obsidian-on-macos-meta-post/3129). --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/best-practices-for-migrating-from-roam/7596)._