How Do I Export My Personal Wiki to Obsidian?
Choose ZIP Archive of Markdown Files in Settings → Export Data, extract the downloaded ZIP, then in Obsidian choose Open folder as vault and select that folder. Every memory becomes a note with YAML frontmatter, fully compatible with Obsidian's default parser — no conversion step required.
Step by step
- Open the SiderMem side panel and go to Settings → Export Data.
- Select ZIP Archive of Markdown Files and download it.
- Extract the ZIP to a folder on your computer.
- In Obsidian, choose Open folder as vault and select the extracted folder.
What each note looks like
Each memory exports as a Markdown file with YAML frontmatter containing its title, UUID, source, tags, and timestamps — standard frontmatter that Obsidian's default parser reads without any plugin or conversion step.
What this exports (and what it doesn't)
This exports your raw saved memories as individual notes. It does not export the auto-generated wiki pages (the merged, entity-organized view described in what a personal knowledge base extension does) as a separate structure — Obsidian's own linking and graph view can reconstruct similar connections from the exported notes' content and tags, but the automatic entity merging itself is a SiderMem-side feature.
Available on every plan
Markdown export works the same way regardless of plan — it's part of SiderMem's data-portability commitment, not a paid-tier-only feature gate on the export mechanism itself.