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obsidianmd / obsidian-importer

Obsidian Importer lets you import notes from other apps and file formats into your Obsidian vault.
https://help.obsidian.md/import
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Import from Day One #55

Open blanknogo opened 1 year ago

blanknogo commented 1 year ago

Current solutions

necopinus commented 9 months ago

I've been working over the past few months to convert from Day One to Obsidian (see this thread on Farcaster). In my experience, all of the existing conversion scripts handle even modestly complex formatting poorly and miss a lot of Day One metadata. While I've completed my project (mostly by hand, in the end), I've put together an example Day One journal export and corresponding Obsidian vault in an attempt to capture as complete a picture as possible of (Day One) input and (Obsidian) output.

The handling of file naming and metadata is obviously opinionated. The point of these examples is more to demonstrate what metadata is available, and to give an example of what "gold standard" Obsidian-flavored markdown generated from a Day One entry would look like. (Also, journal entries can be cross-linked, which is important!)

I hope that any extension authors looking to tackle this problem find these examples useful.