How TO Export Your Logos Library Into Obsidian

David W. Gilmore
David W. Gilmore Member Posts: 7
edited November 21 in English Forum

HI everyone!

I have become a huge fan of Obsidian over the past year as a way to collect all of my thoughts in one place. I also use it to write content for my website and for classes I will be teaching. Obsidian has become invaluable for me to keep a master index of all the videos, podcasts, articles, and books I may want to pull from for various topics I am writing or speaking on. A huge chunk those resources are in Logos, of course, and I wanted a way to know what I had on hand as well as be able to reference it in my notes.

This is kind of an advanced process, so I'm only going to give the high level steps. But, I love teaching people how to do this stuff. So, if you want to know more, please reach out to me!

Here are the high-level steps.

  1. Install the JSON/CSV Importer plugin for Obsidian
  2. Export your library from Logos
  3. Prepare your import file
  4. Create a Handlebar template in Obsidian (I have provided mine).
  5. Test Import until happy
  6. Final import

Here is the Obsidian template you will need

—
Author: “{{Authors}}”
Title: “{{Title}}”
tags:
ResourceType: “{{ResourceType}}”
type: Book
media: eBook
owned: Yes
location: Logos
publish: “{{PublicationDate}}”
ResourceID: “{{ResourceID}}”
Series: “{{Series}}”
Subjects: “{{Subjects}}”
status: ToRead
date_added: <% tp.date.now(“YYYY-MM-DD”) %>
date_started:
date_finished:
MyTags: “{{MyTags}}”
CommunityTags: “{{CommunityTags}}”
aliases:
– “{{Title}}”
—
# {{Title}}

I didn't want to make this post too long. This is just meant for someone who is already comfortable with Obsidian to get their Logos library imported into it.

I've also written up more details instructions on my website if you're interested. Import Your Logos Library Into Obsidian - The Tinker Gnome (gilmoreipedia.org)

Hopefully, someone can find this useful.

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Comments

  • Donovan R. Palmer
    Donovan R. Palmer Member Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭

    Bravo! Obsidian rocks. I will add this to my strategy. 

  • David W. Gilmore
    David W. Gilmore Member Posts: 7
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1299347#Comment_1299347

    Thanks, Donovan!

    Part of my writing workflow is to go and review all of the content I have saved for future use on various topics. And, I kept forgetting to look in Logos to see if I have any resources in my library that are relevant to my topic. So, this was my attempt to add them to my index of resources in Obsidian.

    I'm still working on methods to get the tags imported correctly. One idea I have is to add another column using a spreadsheet program (I use LibreOffice) and have it manipulate each value in the "My Tags", Community Tags" and "Subjects" columns and prepend a "#" to each value in the source file. I'm not sure how the Obsidian Importer will deal with this, though.

    If you haven't read the article I linked, I would highly suggest it. I walk through a lot of the bumps I ran into on getting it to work. Hopefully, it will save you lots of time!

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