Boostnote → Obsidian exporter

.cson -> .md
Humanized name of .md files, instead of hash in .cson files. (takes from .title)
Sanitizes not acceptable for file name symbols from title.
Updates attachments paths. Ex.: :storage/note-hash/file.png -> note-hash/file.png
Moves attachments from attachments to exported-notes/Files
Adds YAML-metadata with 2 attributes createdAt & updatedAt

Installation

No infrastructure. Clone the repo and run via ts-node.

# Clone
git clone git@github.com:korniychuk/boostnote2obsidian-exporter.git boostnote2obsidian
# or
git clone https://github.com/korniychuk/boostnote2obsidian-exporter.git boostnote2obsidian

# Ensure Node & TS-Node installed
❯ node -v
v18.3.0
❯ ts-node -v
v10.9.1

# Usage
cd /my/boostnote/vault/root
ts-node /full/path/to/cloned-folder/boostnote2obsidian --help
ts-node /full/path/to/cloned-folder/boostnote2obsidian list-folders

How it works

It converts .cson notes that Boostnote created into a regular .md files with good names (from title).

The script creates next folders inside the root of the Boostnote Vault:

./archived-notes - backup of the converted notes
./archived-attachments - backup of the moved attachments
./exported-notes - the converted notes that you looking for.
./exported-notes/Files - all attachments of the converted notes. (move its content to Obsidian attachments dir)

Usage

Execute all the commands in a Boostnote Vault Root (it always contains boostnote.json file).

Usage: boostnote2obsidian [options] [command]

Options:
  -h, --help              display help for command

Commands:
  list-folders            List available folders
  list-notes [options]    List all notes
  export-notes [options]  Export notes
  help [command]          display help for command

❯ cd /my/boostnote/vault
❯ boostnote2obsidian list-folders

List of available folders:
┌─────────┬────────────────────────┬──────────────┬───────────┬───────┐
│ (index) │           id           │     name     │   color   │ count │
├─────────┼────────────────────────┼──────────────┼───────────┼───────┤
│    2    │ '14e3c566b375d7191004' │ 'Daily 2019' │ '#E10051' │  250  │
│    3    │ '31d743737b62ee99341f' │ 'Daily 2018' │ '#E8D252' │  97   │
│    5    │ '15f741fc3bf95b8a91c4' │   'other'    │ '#B013A4' │  16   │
└─────────┴────────────────────────┴──────────────┴───────────┴───────┘

❯ boostnote2obsidian list-notes --folder 'other'

Notes for folder: other
┌─────────┬────────────────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┬─────────┐
│ (index) │                   id                   │            name            │         createdAt          │ folder  │
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│    1    │ '0dadf83e-16a1-4183-a490-269ee6fc8d06' │     'TechTalk Zone.JS'     │ '2020-02-24T14:08:02.533Z' │ 'other' │
│   10    │ '5db5a488-0763-4ddf-a976-3d128ddc59c5' │     'English phrases'      │ '2018-08-27T03:23:27.896Z' │ 'other' │
│   14    │ 'd5da5c8f-f8dd-4e0f-8d05-2d8d37087a7d' │ 'JS Breackfast 13.11.2018' │ '2018-11-08T10:45:36.863Z' │ 'other' │
└─────────┴────────────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┴─────────┘

Export

Usage: boostnote2obsidian export-notes [options]

Options:
  -f, --folder <folder>    Export notes for the specified folder
  -t, --add-tags <tags>    Add YAML tags to the exported note
  -c, --clear-export-dirs  Deletes the export dirs, if they are exist
  -a, --archive            Move notes to the archive folder
  -h, --help               display help for command

❯ boostnote2obsidian --clear-export-dirs --folder "other" --archive

Export dirs are deleted
Export notes for folder: other ( 55 )

Ideas

Add name transformers to transform daily notes date for example
Implement adding custom tags via --tags (in progress)

korniychuk / boostnote2obsidian-exporter