Hi there! I’ve been using Obsidian for a couple of weeks and have amassed a largish number of notes and links to be fleshed out. However, Emacs is obviously much superior as a daily writing tool, which is why I wanted to fully migrate to org-roam.
I’ve read some posts on the Github issues page and another post here on the forum on migrating from Obsidian in which md-roam is mentioned but haven’t found anything on a full migration.
I tried using pandoc to automatically convert my .md files, however I haven’t found a way to get the correct org file links generated.
Has anybody here completely left Obsidian for org-roam? How did you do it? I’m open to any tips that might point me in the right direction, including having to extend pandoc's convertion abilities.
Are links the only issue?
What’s the problem of links through pandoc?
Personally I haven’t seen anyone publicly talking about full migration from Obsidian to Org-roam. It’s probably a matter of fixing problems of pandoc output case by case.
Hey! Thanks for the reply. The links aren’t the only issues; I’m struggling with the Obsidian non-standard comments (%%…%%) and the fact that I put many horizontal rulers (---) and, right after them, text – which is interpreted as a table header…
The problem with the links is that they are not converted properly. To be clearer, I wanted the [[a]] and [[a|description]]links to be converted to proper org-mode links, that is, respectively [[file:a.org][a]] and [[file:a.org][description]].
I’m creating a bash script to call perl and automatically deal with these things. Let’s see if that’ll work.
I see… I guess these are all Obsidian specific syntax, probably except for horizontal rules… I would also make personal scripts to convert md files. Good luck
