Obsidian2Neorg

Transform from Obsidian Markdown to Neorg format.

obsidian2neorg takes input from stdin and outputs the transformation to stdout.

You can transform a file like this:

cat file.md | obsidian2neorg > file.norg

Installation

You'll need to have rustup installed. Then install with Cargo

cargo install obsidian2neorg

Bulk Transformations

You can find in this repository a shell script that will transform all .md files in a folder and copy all other files. I've used this script to port all my notes to Neorg using obsidian2neorg.

folder_path="vault"
out_path="vault_neorg"
mkdir -p $out_path
find "$folder_path" -type f -not -path "*/.git/*" -not -name "*.md" | while read -r file; do
    relative_path="${file#$folder_path/}"
    out_file="${out_path}/${relative_path}"
    mkdir -p "$(dirname "$out_file")"
    cp "$file" "$out_file"
done

find "$folder_path" -type f -not -path "*/.git/*" -name "*.md" | while read -r file; do
    lowercase_filename=$(echo "$file" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
    final_filename=${lowercase_filename// /-}
    relative_path="${final_filename#$folder_path/}"
    out_file="${out_path}/${relative_path%.md}.norg"
    mkdir -p "$(dirname "$out_file")"
    cat "$file" | obsidian2neorg > "$out_file"
done

The transformations are based on regex, and not every possible Markdown style is implemented, but it should be enough to get your notes in an acceptable state to start working on Neorg.

lowercase-links

By default file links are forced into lowercase-without-spaces form. This makes it easy to rename all files so that relations are easily transferred. If you want to keep them as they are pass the --literal-links flag:

obsidian2neorg --literal-links

In this case you'll need to modify the bulk transformation script to avoid the renaming

folder_path="vault" # change this to the location of your vault/notes folder
out_path="vault_neorg" # this will be the output folder

mkdir -p $out_path
find "$folder_path" -type f -not -path "*/.git/*" -not -name "*.md" | while read -r file; do
    relative_path="${file#$folder_path/}"
    out_file="${out_path}/${relative_path}"
    mkdir -p "$(dirname "$out_file")"
    cp "$file" "$out_file"
done

find "$folder_path" -type f -not -path "*/.git/*" -name "*.md" | while read -r file; do
    relative_path="${file#$folder_path/}"
    out_file="${out_path}/${relative_path%.md}.norg"
    mkdir -p "$(dirname "$out_file")"
    cat "$file" | obsidian2neorg --literal-links > "$out_file"
done