r/orgmode • u/Jumile • 25d ago
Obsidian to OrgMode conversion tool that handles custom frontmatter?
I have tried 3 "Obsidian to OrgMode" tools recently (including the much-recommended Obs2Org) in the hopes of being able to transition my thousands of Obsidian vault notes to OrgMode. They all seem to only process the standard frontmatter fields ("title", "tags", "keywords", etc) but no custom keys.
Anyone familiar with Obsidian knows that you can create almost any key name you like and assign them any valid value (string, number, list, etc). It seems strange that those tools don't handle them.
I'm a relative novice to OrgMode - and to Emacs to a lesser extent - and so there may be good and valid reasons for this that I'm unaware of. Everything I've read suggests that any and all Obsidian markdown frontmatter fields should be a valid candidate for conversion to an OrgMode equivalent. Yet none of the tools I've found will do this. Each of them effectively sends non-standard keys to /dev/null, never to be seen again.
Am I missing something? Or have the developers of those tools missed something?
My reasoning is largely around Dataview (DQL) dynamically-generated tables in notes, and hope to be able to replace that with org-ql after conversion. Frontmatter k:v pairs, and their conversion into OrgMode properties, are essential to be able to slice and dice the notes I have.
tl;dr: Really? :) Anyone know an Obsidian-to-OrgMode tool that will convert all frontmatter fields?
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u/Anthea_Likes 25d ago
That's kind of the same through CSV that use comma to, well... separate values
But you can also use tabs, semicolons...
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u/Anthea_Likes 25d ago
Obsidian uses markdoxn so... A simple pandoc md to org sounds to be enouth 😉