Migrating Evernote to Obsidian: Tidying up

Knowledge management
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Hi folks,

I decided to import my Evernote notebook into Obsidian, and the importer worked, though there were a few glitches.

Do people import the Evernote notes into the same vault they use for their other notes, or a different vault? I’m finding that the Graph View is basically unusable now, too slow with so many notes. And there are too many search results from Evernote.

I have also set up DEVONthink, and I have my Obsidian vaults inside of that. So I could even move all the Evernote-imported stuff into another folder indexed by DEVONthink, and still search it.

I’m thinking it might be nice to move all the PDFs into my Documents folder so they will be searchable only in DEVONthink and not visible to Obsidian. Maybe move web clips there as well, or move them to a separate Obsidian vault.

Also I only had a few tags in Obsidian, and now all my Evernote tags are in Obsidian. Not sure if I still want to keep using the same tags. I’ve been using folder structure more than tags in Obsidian.

I may want to re-import via Yarle with a custom template, because I’d like to get more frontmatter properties, like created-date, title, and source. (The files have the right created dates, but those are not easily viewable in Obsidian.)

I’m also planning on importing my work notebook, but I think I’ll put it into a separate vault. It doesn’t really have any web clips or PDFs.

Any other things people do to tidy up when they migrate?

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Gosh, every place where there was a # before a word in an Evernote note, it now becomes a tag in Obsidian, and really clutters up my tag space.

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Looks like most of the junk created by this is content of web clippings, so moving the web clips out of Obsidian will fix it. It appears Obsidian is smart enough not to see something purely numeric as a tag. There are cases where I have something like a confirmation number that starts with a letter, but to fix those I can just insert a space following the #.