I'm migrating from Evernote/Joplin and need advice on importing notes

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I have hundreds of notes full of symbols like > = * / which Obsidian interprets as markdown codes.

I used to use Evernote, then I switched to Joplin and edited very little but now I want to use Obsidian due to problems with basic Joplin features.
I can import notes directly from Evernote but I prefer to import from Joplin because of the few edits I’ve made there.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem? I’m very paranoid about losing data.

I’m very paranoid about losing data.

I have tried using the importer plugin and trying to import from HTML and ENEX and it didn’t work.

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Joplin can export to markdown. Move these exported files to your vault, and they will immediately be available in Obsidian.

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among these three only the asterisk is a problem, which could make your text italic (and intermittently unitalicize and reitalicize your texts randomly, which will make it look like a real mess)
the equals sign needs == to make it function as text highlighter

import your stuff and before you open obsidian, make replacements with an external editor like vscode or sublime text first…

you need to figure out a new symbol convention or just remove these – up to you what you do with your content…

if you muck things up, import/convert again and search and replace again

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Sorry but I forgot to mention that in Joplin this error was already happening.

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My notes are full of weird formatting that I didn’t do, and some images are missing.
I have hundreds of notes, so I can’t check them all one by one.

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who will, then?

from your lines, i would have understood > = * / was part of some kind of convention on your part…

anyway…

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I created a separate vault for Evernote export for Obsidian. That way, if someone went off the rails it wouldn’t affect my main vault (though Evernote had something like 30,000+ notes). I actually created 2 separate Evernote export vaults.

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