I've been doing it the slow manual way from MyInfo. Mainly because it’s been a good way to clean up and reorganize / trim stuff in the process. New items only go into Obsidian, of course.
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I feel you on the reorganizing and cleanup—same reason I do all my transfer manually.
Not to mention, Obsidian is such a pleasure to work with, I don't mind doing the work manually. If I had thousands of files/folders to deal with, I'm sure I'd be hunting down an import tool of some kind. But my needs are pretty modest.
I started with Cornell NTS ages ago by hand, then the volume of my notes necessarily expanded and the moment I learned there was a native app (MacOS) that supported wiki-style formatting and paired it all up with the Zettelkasten concept, I was hooked.
You just brought back some unpleasant memories from high school English
The teacher insisted we take Cornell notes
I couldn't stand how they were organized, i was/am crap at taking notes during a lecture, and I didn't need them. I'm very good at remembering information from lectures
Oh man that’s awful. The best note system is the note system one actually uses. I had no idea how to take adequate notes until I “discovered” Cornell NTS during my second or third college attempt.
For dummies like me, Cornell NTS is just Cornell Note Taking System, which seems to include but is not exactly the same thing as Cornell Notes.
It really revolutionized my learning. Taking notes in this way necessarily generates a study guide which can easily be turned into flash cards.
I used to use a split between Joplin and Obsidian — Obsidian was primarily used for more formal notes, while Joplin held my more informal and ephemeral notes. I became increasingly frustrated with Joplin — it felt bloated, overcomplicated, and really wasn't the prettiest thing to look at. I used to use an iPhone, so, to get notes to sync to my device with Obsidian, I would've had to pay for Obsidian Sync, which I didn't want to do, so I stayed with Joplin synced to my Nextcloud. But, later, I moved to an Android phone, so I was then able to hook up Syncthing to start syncing my notes between my phone and my other devices nicely. So, I have since moved all my notes from Joplin to Obsidian, and I have had no issues. I wish Obsidian were open source, but, regardless, it is a great piece of software.