# Contacts as people notes in Obsidian

A note per person in your vault, every field a Property.

## Steps

1. Make a folder for people inside your vault, like `Vault/People`, not the vault itself.
2. Press "connect" on the Contacts card. The panel opens in your AddressBook folder: press "Select this folder".
3. Press "select export folder" and choose `Vault/People`.
4. Pick the layout with the tab the card is on: All writes every card into one folder, Groups into `groups/<group>/`, Companies into `companies/<company>/`. Tick the cards you want.
5. Press "sync now". An edited card rewrites its note while Exporter runs.

## What you get

```text
Vault/People/
  Anna Kowalski.md
  Ben Ortiz.md
```

Each note's front matter holds what the card has, as values and lists Obsidian's Properties panel shows:

```yaml
organization: "Northwind Studio"
job_title: "Art director"
birthday: 1990-12-10
phones:
  - "+1 415 555 0123 (mobile)"
groups:
  - "Studio"
```

Export Messages into the same vault too, and each person's note lists their conversations while each conversation links its people.

## Pitfalls

- Give people a folder of their own, so their notes and yours stay apart. A "full resync" removes only the files Exporter wrote.
- Edits made in Obsidian are not sent back to Contacts, and the next write of that card replaces them. Add your own notes about a person in a separate note.
- Switching the tab moves the files on the next sync. On the free allowance you get your first 100 ticked cards.

Every field, with its key, is in [the Contacts docs](https://exporter.dev/docs/contacts).

## Related

- [Contacts](https://exporter.dev/docs/contacts): Layouts, every field and fixes
- [Apple Notes to Obsidian](https://exporter.dev/guides/notes/apple-notes-to-obsidian): A vault that follows Apple Notes
- [Contacts](https://exporter.dev/contacts): Every contact card as a Markdown file

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human version: https://exporter.dev/guides/contacts/contacts-to-obsidian
every page: https://exporter.dev/llms.txt