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A few months ago, i took the bullet and migrated my notes from Notion to .md files. This was the second time i migrated my notes (last time from Evernote to Not
by ahmadyan 6mo ago
A few months ago, i took the bullet and migrated my notes from Notion to .md files. This was the second time i migrated my notes (last time from Evernote to Notion), and this time it was a lot easier. Kudos to the Notion team for making export so easy.
Just downloaded the notes, then told Claude to organize and remove duplicate or index mds (Notion keeps a lot of random indexes) and clean up and within 30mins i had a very clean and usable (and agent accessible) md vault. I can open it in Obsidian or other md file viewer (as well as my own code editor). I opted for obsidian.
Setup was super straight-forward. I do miss the visual editor in Notion (obsidian editor is not as smooth, and i find myself just writing the files in text instead of using their visual mode).
for sync, i use icloud, and it syncs between the iphone and the mac app flawlessly, didn't have any issue with corruptions (yet). I use the phone app as mostly an intake, and the desktop app for mostly visualizations. I also tinkered with adding git to track history (has to put the .git folder outside the repo with --separate-git-dir).
Obsidian has a terminal support (which i suppose folks can use to run agents in there) although i found it easier (habbit perhaps) to run my agents separately. They provide massive unlock as their turn my knowledge to an actual insight and can connect things that i didn't think it was possible before.
Overall, 75% happy. From first principle, file is as simple as it gets and i think this is good enough personal knowledge management. I do miss sharing capabilities as well as multi-user in Notion, so i don't think this is useful for 2player/team/corp.
- chrisweekly 6mo agoRegarding your visual editor experience, be sure your Obsidian settings use both "Live Preview" and "Editing Mode", which combination makes for fantastic WYSIWYG note-taking. As for multi-user, the Relay plugin is amazing.
- realityfactchex 6mo ago> "Live Preview" and "Editing Mode" Are you somehow showing raw markdown source text and also rendered markdown in Obsidian side by side? That would sound awesome.
- poglet 6mo agoYou can ctrl click the little book icon in the top right to show both modes side by side.
- chrisweekly 6mo agoYou can do that (side by side), but I prefer the unified (rendered AND editable) WYSIWYG view enabled by those 2 settings in combo. Whichever line has your cursor will typically show the raw markdown as you make edits, but the document as a whole is rendered.
- dtkav 6mo agoThanks for the kind words Chris :)
- _neil 6mo agoIf you haven't already, set your vault directory in iCloud to `Keep Downloaded`. I had issues with notes going missing or just being empty shortly after saving, and this setting fixed that.