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How about RemNote…?

Is there any methods to transfer data from remnote to obsidian? (with a clear explanation?)

I see non in this post :frowning:

I found this link, but can’t seem to work it out by myself…


I’ve also posted remnote related question in a separate post, but it’s only been a few hours. Hope I can receive help from this post!!

Thanks in Advance~

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The migration flow above from standardnotes to Obsidian didn’t work for me.
So I’ve wrote simple python script, that migrates notes and tags structure.

Sharing:

import json
from argparse import ArgumentParser
from pathlib import Path

import os


def _parse_args():
    description = """Migrates standardnotes unencrypted backupfile to the obsidian compatible, markdown tree folder structure.
If tags are enabled - convert tags to front matter yaml notation.
First tag found on the note - converted to note folder, preserving tag structure in the file system.
"""
    argument_parser = ArgumentParser(description=description)

    argument_parser.add_argument('--output', type=str, help='Output folder. Defaults to input folder', default=None)
    argument_parser.add_argument('--skip-tags', dest='skip_tags', action='store_true', help='Ignores tags.', default=False)
    argument_parser.add_argument('input', type=str, help='Standardnotes backup folder')

    args = argument_parser.parse_args()

    return args


def prepare_notes_content(items, root_folder):
    notes = {}
    for item in items:
        if item['content_type'] != 'Note':
            continue

        content = item['content']['text']
        for clean_rich_text_words in [
            "<p>",
            "</p>",
            "<br>",
            '<p dir="auto">',
        ]:
            content = content.replace(clean_rich_text_words, "")

        notes[item['uuid']] = {
            'title': item['content']['title'],
            'content': content,
            "tags": [],
            "folder": ""
        }
    return notes


def _prepare_tags_parents(tag_folder):
    tag_parents = {}

    for tag_file in tag_folder.glob("*.txt"):
        with open(tag_file, "r") as f:
            tag_data = json.load(f)

        tag_uuid = tag_file.name.replace("Tag-", "").replace(".txt", "")
        tag_parents[tag_uuid] = {
            "parent": None,
            "title": tag_data['title']
        }
        for reference in tag_data['references']:
            if reference['content_type'] != "Tag":
                continue

            parent_uuid = reference['uuid'].split("-")[0]
            tag_parents[tag_uuid]['parent'] = parent_uuid

    return tag_parents


def prepare_tags(backup_folder, notes):
    tag_folder = Path(backup_folder) / "Items" / "Tag"

    if not os.path.isdir(tag_folder):
        return

    tag_parents = _prepare_tags_parents(tag_folder)

    for tag_file in tag_folder.glob("*.txt"):
        with open(tag_file, "r") as f:
            tag_data = json.load(f)

        references = tag_data['references']
        for reference in references:
            if reference['content_type'] != 'Note':
                continue
            try:
                item = notes[reference['uuid']]
            except KeyError:
                print(f'Wrong tag reference: missing uuid {reference["uuid"]}')

            tag_uuid = tag_file.name.replace("Tag-", "").replace(".txt", "")
            current_tag = tag_parents[tag_uuid]

            folder = current_tag['title']

            while current_tag['parent']:
                current_tag = tag_parents[current_tag['parent']]
                folder = f"{current_tag['title']}/{folder}"

            if not item['folder']:
                item['folder'] = folder

            item['tags'].append(folder)


def write_output(output, notes):
    output_destination = Path(output) / "markdown_migration"
    create_folder(output_destination)

    for item in notes.values():
        create_folder(output_destination / item['folder'])
        file_name = (output_destination / item['folder'] / item['title'].replace(
            " ", "_"
            ).replace("/", "_")).with_suffix('.md')

        with open(file_name, "w") as f:
            if item['tags']:
                f.write("---\n")
                f.write("tags:\n")
                for tag in item['tags']:
                    f.write(f"  - {tag}\n")
                f.write("---\n\n")

            f.write(item['content'])

    print(f"Output written to f{output_destination}")


def create_folder(folder):
    if os.path.isdir(folder):
        return
    try:
        os.makedirs(folder)
    except Exception:
        pass


def main(backup_folder, output=None, skip_tags=False):
    if output is None:
        output = backup_folder

    with open(Path(backup_folder) / "Standard Notes Backup and Import File.txt", "r") as f:
        backup = json.load(f)

    items = backup['items']
    notes = prepare_notes_content(items, output)

    if not skip_tags:
        prepare_tags(backup_folder, notes)

    write_output(output, notes)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    args = _parse_args()
    main(args.input, output=args.output, skip_tags=args.skip_tags)

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Hey Korvyashka, sorry for the late reply.

Just to clarify, do I just need to download that file and run it in terminal with the same directory to convert all my remnote files into obsidian??

@seankim641

Just found your question.
It is using backup folder from standardnotes as input - so firstly save a backup folder somewhere - then pass it as input to the script.

updates to the evernote - obsidian migration: https://twitter.com/DamianMehers/status/1550616475228143616

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parse notes from Diaro to markdown.

Exporting notes from diaro to .txt creates one long .txt file where notes are separated by ----------------------------------------- and Tags are included as Tags: <tag1>, <tag2>

I have created some simple python scripts that will help parsing the txt file into individual markdown files and modify the tags. E.g I had a bunch of notes relating to the corona pandemic I wanted to aggregate using dataview. The notes only had a Tag(Diaro tagged) and a title. I created a script that will search my notes for ones tagged with Corona by diaro. then create a dataview inline tag summary:: with the title of the note

Use at your own risk!!

import re
import os
import uuid
from datetime import datetime

def parse_big_file():
    with open('entryExport.txt', 'rt') as fo:
        counter = 0
        pattern = re.compile(r'----+')  # this is the regex pattern
        for group in re.split(pattern, fo.read()):
            # the re.split function used in the loop splits text by the pattern
            with open("parsed/"+str(counter)+'.txt','a+') as opf:
                if counter > 0: #fixing the header for the firs entry
                    group = group[2:]
                opf.write(group)
            counter += 1

def rename_files_in_dir(dir):

    for filename in os.listdir(dir):
        with open(f"./parsed/{filename}") as openfile:
            firstline = openfile.readline()
            #08 July 2022, Friday 04:16 PM
            uuid_long = uuid.uuid4()
            date_time_obj = datetime.strptime(firstline.strip(), '%d %B %Y, %A %H:%M %p')
            fname = str(date_time_obj.year)+'-'+str(date_time_obj.month)+'-'+str(date_time_obj.day)+str(uuid_long)[0:6]
        os.rename(f"./parsed/{filename}", f"./renamed/{str(date_time_obj)}".replace(":","")+'.md')

if __name__ == "__main__":
    parse_big_file()
    rename_files_in_dir("./parsed")
import os
from glob import glob
all_md_files = [f for f in glob("daily\**", recursive = True) if os.path.isfile(f)]
substring1 = "hvad::"
substring2 = "Corona"
for filename in all_md_files:
    with open(filename, 'r+', encoding='cp437') as fp:
        lines = fp.readlines()
        if any([(l.find(substring1) and l.find(substring2)) for l  in lines]):
            if not any([(l.find("summary::")) for l  in lines]):
                fp.write(f"summary:: {lines[2][1:]}")

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I didn’t find Craft in this Thread so I’ll add a link to a post from myself to migrate from Craft to Obsidian:
Migrating Notes from Craft to Obsidian

Hope this is helpful for some of you :blush:

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Hi! I didn’t see any entry for Logseq here - I wrote a rough script to help me migrate my Logseq graph to an Obsidian vault. It’s over at GitHub - NishantTharani/LogSeqToObsidian: Some tools to help move my notes from LogSeq to Obsidian . It worked alright for me, hopefully someone finds it useful

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Wrote a script for migrating from Mem.ai!

Handles timestamp metadata and links (where possible).

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Another for Apple Notes, based on the Exporter app.

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