Importer - HTML files - Preserve folder structure

Feature requests
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Use case or problem

I have a large number of HTML files, organized pretty much entirely by way of folders. The Importer tool is awesome and does a really great job at the conversion, but it puts all the resulting Markdown files into one single folder, so I lose all the context and organization granted by my folder structure.

Proposed solution

Provide an option on the “Import data into Obsidian” UI for HTML imports to have the Importer recreate the folder structure of the selected folder, instead of putting all the imported files into a single folder. Then, upon import, create a folder structure in Obsidian that corresponds with the folder structure of the folder selected for import.

E.g. if the folder selected for Import has the subfolders:

Folder 1
Folder 2
Folder 3
   Folder a
   Folder b

then the following folder structure would be created in Obsidian:

Folder 1
Folder 2
Folder 3
   Folder a
   Folder b

Current workaround (optional)

Manually re-creating folders. I can also build a script to traverse the folder structure and perform the conversions using Pandoc (but it’s a lot of fiddling T_T).

Related feature requests (optional)

I couldn’t find anything exactly like this. I’m also not sure of the etiquette/procedure around requesting features for the Importer plugin, so please let me know if this isn’t the correct way to go about this ask.

2

You might create an issue at the importer github repository. I guess it has a better chance to be seen.

Alternatively, you could try Jimmy - Convert your notes to Markdown. It preserves the folder structure by default and converts the HTML files to Markdown using Pandoc.

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