Shawn⚡️ @shawn - 2y
Spent the last two hours converting 2+ years and several hundreds pages of notes from Roam Research to Obsidian. AMA. 😅
dd81a - 2y
yes! I made the jump from evernote and never looked back. ideal format, markdown files in folders.
Oh, man. From before Roam, I have a decade of notes in Evernote. Haven’t had the courage to tackle those. How did it go for you?
4cd50 - 2y
Haha I’m stuck halfway through
Have been for about a year
How so?
smoove. I found a tool that converts the evernote format to markdown, and it just worked. some wonky escape characters, but all in all, just worked, including file attachments
I’d be most grateful if you could shoot me a link when you have time. 🙏🏼
I'm looking for the tool I used... it's been a minute. will post a link when I get it sorted
this is what I used: https://github.com/wormi4ok/evernote2md built in Go, brew install, etc. very handy.
75bf2 - 2y
I also would like this link. Why Obsedian and not Standard Notes?
https://github.com/wormi4ok/evernote2md standard notes is functionally a clone of evernote, which is good enough if you like that form. obsidian is beautiful and a joy to use, for one. and the core data structure is markdown files in folders. so if you have a solution for syncing files between devices already, it will fit right into that. another huge draw for me is the graph view. I love seeing the growing hairball of interconnected nodes of concepts that I'm laying down. just browsing around in that view is stimulating. I can see clusters of related concepts, and even sometimes see clusters that should be connected but aren't. and at any moment I could take the whole thing, give it a theme and run hugo over it and turn it into a static website. and if you want support for some random thing, there's almost certainly a plugin for it. I try to limit the plugins to those that keep the markdown clean, though.
Thank you. I'll try using it more.
f8c42 - 2y
@sjaind
@Eric8848
I’m liking Obsidian, but I just cannot get used to the way it renders markdown and the hoops I need to jump through to approximate Roam Research’s Daily pages. Anyone else? I’m looking for ways to make it work.
fd0b8 - 2y
Logseq clones Roam’s interface very closely and uses markdown by default. Might be worth exploring if you’re not committed to making Obsidian work.
I have dabbled with Logseq. It's interesting. I've also tested Tana, which is early and quite powerful, but possibly overkill.
b52cc - 2y
🤙🏽
Being lazy. Also I have a ton of blocks that won’t export correctly. I’m still deciding my obsidian vault & folder structure too.
I bailed and went back to Roam. I like the idea of Obsidian, but the note taking fundamentals can’t match Roam.
