ObsidianApps come and go, but the files you create should last.
Our new open source plugin makes it easy to convert your Evernote data to plain text Markdown files that you own.
Epiphanic Synchronicity@obsidian #Evernote users need to know about this. Looks like other #notes and #PKM app users should keep an eye on this for future migrations, too:
> The first conversion format we have added is .enex for Evernote. We will be adding more file formats to convert your notes from Notion, Apple Notes, and other formats including folders of HTML files.
Kieran Mansfield@EpiphanicSynchronicity @obsidian It’d be really nice to have support for Simplenote as well. I have some stuff in there I need to move across as well.
@Kieranmansfield @obsidian I’m surprised Simplenote doesn’t have good export to markdown
@EpiphanicSynchronicity @obsidian Same, especially since it's mostly text based. It's very odd, unless it’s an intentional omission.
joeross😖me@Kieranmansfield @EpiphanicSynchronicity I sync my Simplenote account to nvALT as text files https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/ - works really well
Andrew Huey@obsidian Excellent timing on this!
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Pat@obsidian This is really helpful... I did my migration from Evernote to Obsidian last week, and this cleans up a lot of the steps I did manually+sequentially.
Sean G@obsidian Oh is evernote gone now? I liked it better when it was just one long ticker tape.
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Joe Cotellese@obsidian @wilreynolds if you're moving from Evernote this plugin might help.
Ryan Welsh@Kieranmansfield This was me the other day. Hadn’t used EN in years, thought I hadn’t ever really gotten too into it.
Turned out I was being pretty good about journaling in it at one time. It was during a toxic breakup I was going through, AND traveling a lot to take care of my mother when she was seriously ill before she passed.
Quite a memory walk as I migrated all of those old journals into my Obsidian daily notes. Better to have recovered memories, for good or ill.
@RyanWelsh Ah that's absolutely awesome being able to back-date those as Daily Notes. Sorry to hear about your mum, that sounds horrible.
I had a very on and off relationship with Evernote, it really felt like an everything bucket but it never clicked fully with me.
@Kieranmansfield Thx for your kind words.
EN always just felt like a paywalled Google Docs to me. 🤷🏻♂️
For journaling: Periodic Notes and Calendar are the two community plugins that drive it for me. Templater adds special sauce; some complexity, not required, but nice.
@RyanWelsh I really like Periodic notes but I wish they've update the extension soon, i'm starting to feel like it’s not long maintained. :/
I only discovered the active templater on document creation the other day. Game changing. 😂
That’s honestly the best way to describe it, it’s basically a paywalled Google Docs.
@Kieranmansfield @obsidian That’s one of the upsides of migrating to a new notes app when you’ve been using your old one a long time
@EpiphanicSynchronicity @obsidian Absolutely, it's going to be so awesome to have everything in one place. Together.
分 Bifurkatus@obsidian Is obsidian still closed source?
@obsidian Any suggestions on how to import my notes from #Simplenote into #Obsidian? #PKM
There all txt files. 🙄
Alex Qwxlea@Kieranmansfield @obsidian Just change the extension to md, and copy them to your obsidian folder, that’s all
@Kieranmansfield @obsidian Automation is more work to setup, but reduces mistakes over time. Hazel is super useful. And have fun with your Obsidian (new) vault
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J. Crocker@obsidian This is the most amazing news. I just converted all of my Evernote notebooks using the new Importer plugin. Everything looks great and I'm free of someone else owning my data. Thank You!
Mike EllisI don’t rave about many bits of #software but #obsidian is the dogs dangles. Been using it for many things for many months now - journal, knowledgebase, place to make notes about the music I’m writing, collaborative space for a course and book I’m working on with a colleague… and more.
it continues to surprise me with flexibility and misc goodness. And more to the point, all your stuff is yours - just plain old Markdown, on your terms.
Amazing.
MH Thaung@obsidian Ooh, brilliant! I have some old data I've love to have easy access to again 🤩
Knack@obsidian
I'm a deeply embedded Evernote user, but after the recent price changes and layoffs... this might be just the thing that makes it easy to experiment with transitioning over.
I'm a deeply embedded Evernote user, but after the recent price changes and layoffs... this might be just the thing that makes it easy to experiment with transitioning over.