Use case or problem
For the past day I’ve been trying to migrate from OneNote to Obsidian. It started when I noticed the onenote search feature doesn’t work well at all for unicode, non-english/numbers, characters (and my mother tounge isn’t English, so I need it to work). I tried looking for a fix to that (spoiler, couldn’t find one), but stumbled accross Obsidian on the way. It seemed to good to be true, but I tried moving over my notes. The built-in importer plugin requires cloud notebook, not local ones, and mine are local so I didn’t try it. I tried converting my notebooks to markdown with about three different tools (two of them from posts in this forums from a couple years ago), but none of them did it correctly and moved everything over. Finally I gave it, uploaded a notebook and tried the importer, but it completely failed to convert my equations, lost the structured notebook style and didn’t move over quite a few other things. I gave up, went back to onenote, and right now that’s the only thing keeping me from moving to Obsidian.
Proposed solution
I propose extending the built-in importer plug-in to work with local onenote notebooks, and to convert all the content in the notebooks (minus the drawings/handwriting, or a few other things) to markdown format. I do not know how to implement this feature (after all, I’m not a dev working on this), but I feel like it would remove a big barrier blocking new users from migrating over.
Current workaround (optional)
Right now there aren’t any great ones, but I’ll link the ones I tried:
CLI tool
Another CLI tool
OneMore