Convert Google Keep notes to Obsidian Markdown

A Google Keep repository can be exported using Google Takeout

This generates a zip file, which, when extracted, holds a Takeout/Keep directory containing:

• *.json: the primary textual content, processed and output to vault
• Labels.txt: list of label (tag) names used - added to report
• audio/video files: copied to vault/media
• *.html: ignored
• other files: copied to vault

See GitHub Issues for known problems.

Until this gets bundled into a package, try the following (tested on ArchWSL2 and on Windows 10/PowerShell 7.1.3).

In each case a "vault" directory is created, containing the generated Markdown; media assets will be copied to a "media" subfolder of this vault. Copy this folder into, say, "Documents\Obsidian\KeepVault" or "~/data/obsidian/keepvault"

This "KeepVault" folder can now be added as a new vault in Obsidian. Text, images and links from your Keep account will be indexed and available, and can be merged with an existing vault by copying the folders across.

In Powershell 7:

• Install scoop

cd
scoop install git julia
mkdir code
cd code
git clone git@github.com:thomasn/obsidify-keep
# Grind yourself a fresh [Google Takeout][] zipfile
# Extract the zip file to somewhere\Takeout\Keep
cd $HOME\code\obsidify-keep
julia src\obsidify-keep.jl --input-dir=somewhere\Takeout\Keep --output-dir=. --verbose=true

• read Windows instructions
• clone repo
• see obsidify.sh

Note: This code has been written entirely to familiarize myself with Julia - the other projects below may be considerably more robust! Ones I've come across:

• Keep-It-Markdown aka KIM: actively maintained, uses Python, uses an undocumented API for access
• google-keep-exporter: uses Node
• keep-to-markdown: Python, may have support for i18n/UTF-8 (not tested in this project)

Please let me know of any problems!

-- T