iPad Pro Help: Is there a way to import Apple Notes into Obsidian with the M4 iPad Pro?

[Apple_Robert]

I installed the Obsidian Importer plugin and when I started the steps to import, the plugin said the Apple Notes import needed to be done from a Mac, which I don’t have at the moment. Is there another way I can import Apple Notes into Obsidian, which having to copy and paste etc individual note into Obsidian ?

 

[01cowherd]

Nope, you need a Mac because that's the only way to access the notes database. On iOS, you can't access it because iOS is more locked down. You can try using Shortcuts to export your notes, but it's frankly buggy and it's has only worked properly for me on a couple OS versions. Theoretically, you could create Markdown versions of the notes, since there is a "Make Markdown from Rich Text" action, but it has never worked for me on iOS (and only sort of works on macOS).

If you will have access to a Mac in the near future, I'd manually copy over notes as needed. If you won't, then try Shortcuts. Alternatively, you can drop and drop a note from Notes into Files, which will save it as an .rtfd on iOS 18. You can then try to find an .rtf to .md converter. Or try Shortcuts convert RTF to HTML, which has worked mostly reliably in my experience—Obsidian can import HTML if I recall correctly.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Nope, you need a Mac because that's the only way to access the notes database. On iOS, you can't access it because iOS is more locked down. You can try using Shortcuts to export your notes, but it's frankly buggy and it's has only worked properly for me on a couple OS versions. Theoretically, you could create Markdown versions of the notes, since there is a "Make Markdown from Rich Text" action, but it has never worked for me on iOS (and only sort of works on macOS).

If you will have access to a Mac in the near future, I'd manually copy over notes as needed. If you won't, then try Shortcuts. Alternatively, you can drop and drop a note from Notes into Files, which will save it as an .rtfd on iOS 18. You can then try to find an .rtf to .md converter. Or try Shortcuts convert RTF to HTML, which has worked mostly reliably in my experience—Obsidian can import HTML if I recall correctly.

Thank you for taking the time to reply. I appreciate it. I was afraid this was going to be the case. I am trying to get my noted backed up outside of Apple in case something were to ever happen with my account or Apple itself. Getting my hands on another Mac seems more practical than hand copying all my notes or trying to covert each one and hope it turns out ok without needing more revision.