Exactly! Obsidians considers only links among files and text editing, but I believe it should interpret metadata and YAML front matter, too
We can even use āKeep-it-Markdownā. It doesnāt need a full export. You can export daily if you want to 
. Kinda cool. Uses unofficial keep API
Has anyone used Drafts as a mobile front end? It is a very mature markdown editor that uses linking. Iām capturing in Drafts, copy and pasting to Obsidian. (Donāt want to make Drafts folder into a vault yet.) Sophisticated action system. Good text wrangling, markdown translation. The dev is superb.
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Donāt think Drafts works as a mobile FE - see here --> How do I work with Obsidian on Mobile?
I wrote a simple action to Send to Obsidian with Tags.
I wrote a Python script that converts every row of all CSV files in the working directory and subdirectories into markdown files according to the formatting settings you choose per column.
You can:
- add everything as YAML frontmatter
- choose the delimiter of your CSV files
- the maximum file name length
- from which column the file name should be generated
- choose the markdown formatting for each column
- write the chosen settings to
saved_settings.py - or read settings you set before.
It will let you choose the settings for the first file in the list of CSV files it creates, so all the CSV files you run it on have to have the same columns if you want the settings to be applied consistently/if you want it not to fail. (This means that you should only run the script on CSV files with the same number of rows/formatting at once and choose different settings for the next batch.)
This script may be helpful if you want to transfer your data from programs that can export to CSV. The script should give you the best of both worlds. Markdown with its linking, tags and graph view (from Obsidian) and, optionally, all the info as YAML which you can query with dataview to preserve the advantages of a database.
Please consult the Readme for information on installation and updates to the script.
This post will most likely not be updated. To get an up-to-date overview of the features, please follow the link to the repo and read the Readme.
If you find any bugs/have feature requests, please open an issue in the repo.
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OPML (XLM) import to Obsidian
OPML is a common format for nested lists (i.e. outliners).
You may be tempted to try pandoc --from opml --to gfm, but unfortunately it interprets nested lists as headings, and converts each nesting level to a heading level. This is wrong. Maybe youāre OK with that format, but this guide is how to turn it into a true outline (hierarchical nested list).
Here is how to get the nested list into obsidian
- Log in to dynalist.io and start at a blank document. Note that Dynalist is the other product the Obsidian developers maintain, and thus why this conversion works well.
- Open your OPML file in a text editor and copy the whole thing
- Paste into the Dynalist document. This automatically runs a parser in the background to convert it into Dynalist format. You should see a nested list.
- click the hamburger menu (3 lines near the title) and click Export.
- click the Formatted tab. Copy the entire contents.
- Paste into an Obsidian document. This automatically runs are parser in the background and should result in a properly nested list in Obsidian.
- Done
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Hi,
This topic may be of interest
Supports
- Migration from Note-Station
- Markdown migrations
- Convert between different types of Markdown
- HTML to Markdown conversion
- Markdown to HTML
Uses pandoc for part of the conversion but also handles the parts of files pandoc does not convert through some pre and post processing of files.
Hope itās of help to somebody.
Latest update 1.6.0 adds features to help identify and trouble shoot issues in the note sets and allows more flexibility over file locations
version 1.6.0 additional options allow you to
- change absolute links to images and attachment so relative paths
- Choose any folder as the source
- Choose any folder as an export location
- Generates a conversion report that warns of issues with file links in the note sets. This helps you identify notes that may not be fully converted.
- Management of orphan files - orphan files are images/documents that are in the source folders but were not linked in any notes. This helps clean out old data or identity items that should be linked but are not.
Sections of the conversion report may include the following:
- Invalid links
- links in the notes that are not recognised as being valid
- Orphan files
- list of orphan files that were not linked to in any of the notes
- Missing attachments
- list of images of attachments such as pdfās that were linked to but the files themselves could not be located
- List of attachments that are using absolute links
- For NSX conversion
- List of note pages where the attachmentsā data key was set to null in the export. This is an issue with the note station export into the nsx file not being complete. Can be seen where there are synchronisation issues between the web and desktop versions.
- List of note pages that were encrypted and could not be converted
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Migration from Standard Notes to Obsidian
Quick explanation:
- Export Standard Notes to Text (Download Backup - Decrypted)
- Import txt files to Bear, then export as Markdown to your Obsidian vault
Export from Standard Notes Desktop
From the app
- Click on Account
- Under Data Backups, choose Decrypted
- Click Download Backup, and save in a folder of your choice
Import into Bear
- Download Bear if you need to, then open
- Click File > Import Notes
- Bear doesnāt have file names, only titles, so choose āUse File Name as Titleā. No point clicking on āKeep Original Creation and Modification Dateā as all the exported text files will have the same creation and modification date.
- Select all the notes you want to export
- File > Export Notes
- Choose Export As: Markdown
- Export Notes to a folder of your choice
Obsidian
- Once you have your notes from all your old services in 1 folder, use that as the Obsidian vault.
HI!
New on Obsidian and new to this forum, so forgive me if this has already been discussed before (I did a quick search, but I couldnāt find anything about what Iām about to write).
The topic, of course, is migrating from Roam to Obsidian, and I have a (quite) big graph ālockedā in some EDN/JSON file.
I tried importing all my graph in Logseq (donāt ask me how I stumbled in this workaroundā¦ too long story) and then opening Logseq directory with Obsidian.
Everything is there and correctly (back)linked!!!
I did a quick ātourā of my notes and I only found some minor glitches with {{alias:SOMETHINGā¦ and with (arbitrary) idās appended to blocks due to a Table of Content creator plugin I installed, but this seems to me the easiest path to Obsidian from Roam.
Anyone else tried this? How did you manage to solve glitches?
Thank you so much @Silver, this makes coming from Ulysses so much easier!
Hereās a NodeJS script Iām working on to migrate from Dynalist to Obsidian.
It connects to the Dynalist API and converts documents into Obsidian compatible MD files.
Havenāt tried this but it looks handy for migrating from Notion:
Onenote to Obsidian converter
Saw this on Reddit and thought Iād post it here. I havenāt tried it.
RealmWorks to Obsidian converter (authored by me):
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Migrating from Windows sticky notes: Liberating and Importing Microsoft/Windows Sticky Notes - #3 by EleanorKonik
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Eleanor suggested I could post this blog post of mine about my experience transitioning from Roam Research to Obsidian:
Converting OneNote to Obsidian:
I used nixseeās script to convert my notes. It was not plug and play though, so I documented here what I needed to do to make them work in Obsidian.
https://github.com/theohbrothers/ConvertOneNote2MarkDown/issues/123
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Iāve compiled, organized, and updated much of the material on this āMeta - Migration Workflowsā page into one consolidated article shown here: The Road from Roam to Obsidian. The road from Roam Research (Roam) toā¦ | by Denise Todd | Mar, 2022 | Medium Hope it helps someone.
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