# Fully migrating from Obsidian **URL:** \ **Category:** Troubleshooting\ **Created:** [June 26, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/fully-migrating-from-obsidian/1708 "2021-06-26T17:08:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rberaldo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/rberaldo/32/819_2.png) [@rberaldo](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/rberaldo)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/fully-migrating-from-obsidian/1708/1 "2021-06-26T17:08:55Z")
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. Thanks! 😄 ---
**Author:** ![nobiot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/nobiot/32/159_2.png) [@nobiot](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/nobiot)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/fully-migrating-from-obsidian/1708/2 "2021-06-26T18:41:48Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![rberaldo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/rberaldo/32/819_2.png) [@rberaldo](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/rberaldo)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/fully-migrating-from-obsidian/1708/3 "2021-06-26T18:57:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![nobiot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/nobiot/32/159_2.png) [@nobiot](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/nobiot)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/fully-migrating-from-obsidian/1708/4 "2021-06-26T19:22:17Z")
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 🤞 ---
**Author:** ![rberaldo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/rberaldo/32/819_2.png) [@rberaldo](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/rberaldo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2021, 1:35am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/fully-migrating-from-obsidian/1708/5 "2021-06-27T01:35:40Z")
Hey y’all, This is an amateur python script I put together to convert from Obsidian nonstandard stuff into beautiful org: [Obsidian to org-roam migration kit – a completely half-baked attempt at moving from Obsidian to org-roam which nevertheless works (for me). · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/rberaldo/2a3bd82d5ed4bc39fee7e8ff4a6242b2) Use it at your own peril 😉