I am not sure if it is this difficult or if I am missing something. I am working on a 3 talk outline for a retreat I am doing. I typically work in Obsidian for everything related to writing. This year, I want to give my outline to a few of the discussion leaders in Word (not PDF). We will be taking turns speaking and I want to make sure none of us are repetitive.
I can’t fathom how to export from Obsidian to Word. I tried PDF to Word and that didn’t work. I tried Pandoc and that looks convoluted (given my time constraints).
Current Options that I tried that are dreadful
Tried Copy/Paste to Drafts and then export to Word (works, loses formatting)
Tried Copy/Paste to DevonThink and then export to Word (works, loses formatting)
I enthusiastically recommend Marked2 to export your markdown notes from Obsidian to another format, including Word.
When you open a markdown document in Marked 2, you have the option to export to HTML, PDF (continuous or paginated), RTFD, RTF, DOCX, ODT, and OPML.
You have the option to download and install a number of custom styles from the Marked website, which usually carry over to the exported document without a hitch. I personally find it much easier to write something in markdown in either Obsidian of Drafts, open it in Marked 2, apply the style I want, and then export it to Word without having to style it in Word.
I typically prefer Word, so I can track changes and comments and make the edits immediately.
I can also be very archaic sometimes, I find myself falling into old habits instead of somehow making use of proper apps.
Example: Google Docs
For some reason till today, rather than make use of the exciting workflows or apps that I have. When I want to collaborate / share and receive comments from people.
At the very top of the Google Document, I will assign a collaborator a font color and say “write what you want to say to me, comment, etc, in that font color”
This way I have a running track of everything.
Each time I do this, I find myself having to fight against this old habit.
Sometimes the final distribution is either in Craft, Notion, or Keynote.
It depends on what’s happening. But this part of the workflow is more for me.
After everyone has made their comments, we each work on our individual areas.
It’s mainly to make sure that since there are multiple speakers, they don’t overlap their talking points. Normally, this chaos wouldn’t happen, but our main speaker got sick and can’t make it. I went into scramble mode and rather than try to do it all myself, I opted to include more people with me and delegate so we can distribute.
Rather than using bloated Word could you not exploit the features of Obsidian’s core plugin “File Recovery”? You might have to adjust the plugin’s settings to get what you want but personally I hate the idea of having to mix-and-(badly)-match two different tools to achieve my aims.
