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Import your Obsidian vault

Bring an Obsidian vault into your Eden Library with its tags, links, and images. Works in the browser and the desktop app.

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Go to Settings → Import and click Import from Obsidian. Choose your vault folder or a zip of it, check the summary, and click Import. Every note lands in your Library.

Get your vault ready

There is no export step. An Obsidian vault is already a folder of markdown files. Use the folder Obsidian opens, or zip it first if that is easier to move.

Import into Eden

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    Open the importer

    Go to Settings → Import and click Import from Obsidian.

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    Choose your vault

    Click Choose vault folder, or Choose a zip. You can also drag the folder onto the window. Nothing uploads yet.

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    Check the summary

    Eden shows how many notes, tags, and images it found. On a repeat import it also shows what is new or changed.

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    Import

    Click Import. Keep the window open until it finishes, then click Open Library.

What comes over

In ObsidianIn Eden
Each .md fileOne note in your Library. No boards are made.
FoldersTags, one for every folder on the note's path
Front matter and inline #tagsTags. Ones you already have are reused.
[[Wikilinks]]Links between notes. Missing targets become plain text.
Images and attached filesImages stay in place. Other files become links.
Front matter title and createdUsed as the note's title and date
Callouts, highlights, commentsCallouts become quotes. Highlights become bold. Comments are removed.

Import again or undo

  • Run it again any time. New notes are added and notes you changed in Obsidian are updated.
  • A note you edited in Eden is never overwritten.
  • A note you deleted in Eden comes back on the next import.
  • Eden remembers notes by vault name and path. Renaming the vault imports everything again.
  • To find imported notes, open Filter → Source in the Library and pick Obsidian.
  • To undo, click Remove imported notes on the card. The notes move to Trash. Tags stay.

If something's off

  • "No markdown notes were found": you picked the wrong folder. Choose the vault folder itself.
  • Vault has more than 5,000 notes: import it one folder at a time.
  • "That zip is over 2 GB": choose the vault folder instead of the zip.
  • Import stopped early: you hit the Free plan's 100-item limit. The summary warns you first. Upgrade, then import again.
  • Attachments skipped: files over 15 MB are left out.
  • A note ends with "Note truncated on import": notes over about 180,000 characters are cut.
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