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Feature: Porting Excalidraw Drawings from Obsidian #266
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Hey guys!
Been a neovim user now for a couple of years, and I believe this is a really cool project and have been really impressed on how it is turning out.
One of my great usages for Obsidian is currently the drawings using the Excalidraw Plugin, and I did see the added support for ZenNotes with the Release v2.4.0.
However, since I already have many drawings in my Obsidian, when I open them up in ZenNotes I get the text-like view of it.
In Obsidian:
In ZenNotes:
It would be great if I could open all the drawings I already have in my vault (even if only in RO mode) or even just having a port of the drawings into the internal format.
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feat(excalidraw): import Obsidian Excalidraw drawings (#266)
adibhanna commentedon Jun 25, 2026
Fixed for the upcoming v2.8.0 🎉
ZenNotes now recognizes Obsidian Excalidraw drawings (
*.excalidraw.md, or a.mdcarrying theexcalidraw-pluginfrontmatter). When you open one, you'll get a "Convert to ZenNotes drawing" prompt that imports it into a native.excalidrawfile — which opens in the full drawing editor, fully editable.jsondrawings and the newer LZString-compressedcompressed-jsonones..excalidraw.mdis kept untouched, so nothing is lost. (Convert each drawing once and you can delete the originals when you're happy.)Shipping in v2.8.0 (#269), commit ce7af38. Thanks for the clear write-up and the before/after screenshots, @Fogoid — made this easy to scope. 🙏
BlitzVI commentedon Jun 26, 2026
hey, i cant see to figure out how to convert the .excalidraw drawing to the one ZenNotes recognizes. Can you please help me out? i tried opening the file and right clicking the file to see if i get the convert to ZenNotes drawing prompt but i dont see anything
[MERGE] v2.8.0: integrate upstream v2.8.0 into the personal fork