# "Import" of Obsidian Notes? **URL:** https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/import-of-obsidian-notes/609 **Category:** How To **Created:** [August 7, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/import-of-obsidian-notes/609 "2020-08-07T16:23:38Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### 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: [August 9, 2020, 10:18am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/import-of-obsidian-notes/609/2 "2020-08-09T10:18:39Z")
Hi @JPMoo, Obsidian uses markdown files (GitHub Flavored Markdown, GFM); Org-roam uses org files. So you would need to bridge them. One way to do this is to use a tool to convert `.md` files to `.org` files. A Roam migration tool is mentioned in the Org-roam official [documentation](https://www.orgroam.com/manual/How-do-I-migrate-from-Roam-Research_003f.html#How-do-I-migrate-from-Roam-Research_003f); I have [tried it on Windows](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/how-to-use-roam-migration-to-convert-roam-research-exported-markdown-to-org-files/235). Since Roam exports into `.md` files, this tool should be useful for Obsidian. You should also be able to use [Pandoc](https://pandoc.org/) to convert from `.md` to `.org` files. Lastly… For markdown files, I use my unofficial plug-in for Org-roam that enables it to directly work with `.md` files – no need to convert from `.md` to `.org` files; I call it [Md-roam](https://github.com/nobiot/md-roam). This is for my personal use, so it will likely feel rough around the edges, and I cannot provide the excellent level of support that Org-roam project has been doing. But apart from that, you are welcome to try it out. I will try out Obsidian, and see if Md-roam can borrow some ideas from Obsidian – e.g. `![[filelink]]` and `[[internal link]`] sytanx. --- _[View the full topic](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/import-of-obsidian-notes/609)._