That’s all there is to it! Gotchas and Other Weird Thingsįiles attached to notes are in the _resources/ folder. Just drag the folder into your Vault directory and it and the notes in it will be visible. This is the easiest part of the entire process. What a notebook exported to Markdown looks like. The bad news is that the notebooks in Evernote’s own proprietary format which is not useful to anything which is not Evernote: The good news is that Evernote does let you export entire notebooks to disk. Getting Your Notes Straight Outta Evernote and Into Obsidian Themes are specific to each Vault, so if you decide to distribute a Vault full of documents, your themes and other settings go with it. The possibilities are endless.įinally, if you’re really nerdy, you can create your own CSS to alter how Obsidian displays, or download a theme for Obsidian. What else does Obsidian have that makes it stand out? Plugins! Obsidian ships with close to two dozen plugins, and you can install third-party plugins, or write your own. This separation of concerns makes Obsidian less complicated because it doesn’t have to sync its own notes, that’s a win!Īnother benefit to using the filesystem to store your notes and attachments is that you can manage your notes by using Mac’s Finder or Windows Explorer to move things around as you see fit, instead of having to use whatever built in note browser Evernote has, a move which I feel held Evernote back. And your vault can be sitting in a folder shared to Dropbox, OneDrive, any similar service. What this means is that backing up your data is as a simple as zipping up the root folder, which Obsidian calls a “Vault”. Don’t know what Markdown is? No problem, it’s very simple syntax used to mark up documents (WAY simpler than HTML) that you can learn in no time at all!Īnd instead of using a database to store notes, Obsidian uses the filesystem to store them. Obsidian can best be described as “An IDE for Markdown documents“. So I started looking around, and I found something I fell in love with: Obsidian. I filed a support request with Evernote about this, yet a few versions later this disturbing bug remains. I tried restarting Evernote and that fixed the problem for a few days until it came back. That’s right–after the app being open for a few days, clicking on a note–any note–would show a blank screen where my content would be! The first time I saw this, I went into a near panic.
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