Some thoughts on using Roam as an Obsidian person / Questions for Roam Refugees

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Converting a Roam graph for usage in Obsidian is effort, but here are some things that might help you transition.

Get all uploaded files in Roam Research to Obsidian

You can try these two commands or modify them to your use (run from your vault root). I recommend making a backup first or managing the vault with git. First, download a markdown export of all your notes and extract the zip file. The commands below can be run in that extracted folder. Download all images off firebase and store them in _attachment/img. mkdir -p _attachment/img && \ sed -n 's/.*\[](\(https:\/\/firebasestorage.*\)).*/\1/gp' *.md */*.md \ | sort | uniq \ | sed 's/.*%2F…

Converting Roam Daily Notes To YYYY-MM-DD format, with backlinks

For the latest instructions see the official Roam Research import guide https://help.obsidian.md/import/roam This is a small bash script I used to convert Roam Daily notes so they work with a YYYY-MM-DD format and add some front matter metadata to work better in Obsidian. Note for MacOS Users bash sed and date in this script assume a GNU userland. If you are on Linux it should just work. If you are on Mac OS X try brew install bash gnu-sed gnutls and make sure gnu sed date and bash are on …