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2.2 KiB
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46 lines
2.2 KiB
Markdown
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title = "Migrating my markdown notes from Obsidian to Apple Notes"
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date = 2024-03-03
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["markdown", "obsidian", "apple", "pandoc", "bash"]
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categories = [ "TIL" ]
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[extra]
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toc = true
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keywords = ["markdown", "html", "pandoc", "obsidian", "apple notes", "bash", "migrate"]
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So I wanted to migrate my markdown notes from Obsidian to Apple Notes. Apple Notes did not support import from markdown. I also wanted to maintain the folder structure.
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For every file I also wanted to maintain the title of the note. I wanted to prepend the title to the HTML file so that when I import the HTML file to Apple Notes, the title is correctly set. I did this by adding the file name (without the extension) as an `h1` tag to the HTML file.
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I did this using [pandoc](https://pandoc.org) and a bash script. Here is how I did it:
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```bash
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#!/bin/bash
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SRC_DIR="/obsidian_notes"
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DEST_DIR="/notes_migrated_to_html"
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find "$SRC_DIR" -type f -name "*.md" | while IFS= read -r file; do
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# Compute the subdirectory path
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sub_dir="$(dirname "${file#$SRC_DIR/}")"
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# Compute the destination path
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dest_path="$DEST_DIR/$sub_dir"
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# Print the source and destination paths for logging purposes
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echo "processing: [$file] to [$dest_path]"
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# Create the destination directory structure
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mkdir -p "$dest_path"
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# Define the output HTML file path
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output_html="${dest_path}/$(basename "${file%.md}.html")"
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# Convert the Markdown file to HTML
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pandoc "$file" -o "$output_html"
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# Extract the base filename without the extension for the title
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base_name="$(basename "$file" .md)"
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# Prepend the title to the HTML file
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echo "<h1>$base_name</h1>$(cat "$output_html")" > "$output_html"
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done
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```
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I put the above script in a file called `convert_md_to_html.sh` and made it executable using `chmod +x convert_md_to_html.sh`. Then I ran the script using `./convert_md_to_html.sh`. This script will convert all the markdown files in the `SRC_DIR` to HTML files and put them in the `DEST_DIR` while maintaining the folder structure. Then I imported the HTML files to Apple Notes using the `File -> Import to Notes` option. This worked like a charm. I was able to maintain the folder structure and the notes were imported with the correct titles.
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