Import your Obsidian journal into WOYM

Turn your Obsidian notes into journal entries, with their formatting, pictures and dates. There is nothing to export: WOYM reads the vault folder itself, and running it twice never makes copies.

Find your vault folder

An Obsidian vault is an ordinary folder of notes on your computer. To find it, right-click any note in Obsidian's file list and choose Reveal in Finder, or Show in system explorer on Windows. The vault is the folder named after it.

Keep your journal in its own folder, like Daily? You can choose just that folder in the next step.

2024-11-03.md

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Right-click a note in Obsidian's file list

Choose the folder in WOYM

Sign in at woym.app on a computer, open Settings, then Import Entries. Click Import from Obsidian and pick the folder. Your browser may ask whether to upload the files: they are read on your computer, and only your notes and their pictures are saved to WOYM.

Import is part of WOYM Premium. New to WOYM? Create an account first, then choose a plan.

Import Entries

Choose your Obsidian folder. Each entry keeps its date.

Import from Obsidian

or choose a ZIP

woym.app → Settings

Keep the tab open until it finishes

WOYM turns each note into an entry, then uploads its pictures and recordings. When it is done you see how many notes came across, and which were skipped and why.

Stopped halfway, or lost your connection? Run the import again with the same folder. Notes already in WOYM are not added twice.

What comes across

Comes across

✓Every note as its own entry, with its name as the heading

✓Bold, italics, strikethrough, links, inline code and highlights (as plain text)

✓Headings, bullet, numbered and to-do lists, quotes, callouts and code blocks

✓Pictures, videos and recordings in the vault, embedded with ![[ ]] or Markdown

✓Dates from a date property or a daily note's name

Stays behind

–Other properties, like tags or aliases

–Notes embedded in other notes, PDFs and canvases

–Plugin output, like Dataview tables

–Comments (%% %%) and templates

Questions

Which date does each entry get?+

A note's date property (date, or created) comes first. A daily note named by its day, like 2024-11-03, gets that day. Any other note gets the day its file last changed, and WOYM tells you how many those were so you can change them.

Can I import only my journal, not the whole vault?+

Yes. Choose the folder that holds your journal, like Daily, instead of the vault. Every note in the folder you choose becomes an entry.

What if the import stops halfway, or I run it twice?+

Run it again with the same folder. A note already in WOYM is recognised by where it sits in that folder and is not added again. Changes you made to a note after importing it are not brought over.

Can I do it on my iPhone?+

Safari can't choose a folder, but it can choose a ZIP. In the Files app, find your vault (On My iPhone or iCloud Drive, then Obsidian), touch and hold it, and tap Compress. Then open woym.app in Safari and use or choose a ZIP.

What happens to links between notes?+

A [[link]] reads as its text. A note embedded in another one is left out there; it comes across as its own entry if it's in the folder you chose.

Are my templates imported?+

No. Notes in a folder named Templates are skipped, and so are empty notes and Excalidraw drawings.

Coming from somewhere else? See how to import Apple Journal entries or a Notion journal.

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