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title: "Goodbye Roam Research, Hello Obsidian"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/goodbye-roam-research-hello-obsidian-9dfilzwt1
source_url: https://eugeneyan.com/writing/roam-to-obsidian
type: article
source: "Eugene Yan"
published: 2026-05-31T07:40:29.128Z
updated: 2026-05-31T08:27:32.888Z
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Goodbye Roam Research, Hello Obsidian

**[Eugene Yan](https://daily.dev/sources/eugeneyan)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A personal account of migrating notes from Roam Research to Obsidian, covering the steps to export notes and images, fix tag formatting with regex, and set up cross-device sync using the obsidian-git plugin. Includes tips on handling large image commits to GitHub and a mention of useful community plugins.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://eugeneyan.com/writing/roam-to-obsidian>

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