Convert Word to Markdown for Obsidian

Steps

1. Press “Connect” beside Documents on Exporter’s home, then “Choose Documents Folder”, and choose the folder your Word files are in. Subfolders are included.
2. Choose a folder inside your vault for the Markdown, like Vault/Documents, and press “Use This Folder”. It cannot be the documents folder or sit inside it.
3. Keep “Markdown” ticked on the format row.
4. Press “Sync Now”. Each document becomes a note, in the same folder shape as your documents.
5. Open the vault in Obsidian. While Exporter runs, a document you save is converted again a few seconds later.

What you get

Vault/Documents/
  Work/
    Quarterly report.md
    Pitch deck.md

Each note starts with front matter that Obsidian shows as properties: title, source (the document’s path), format, modified, and pages for a PDF. Word, PowerPoint, Excel, EPUB and PDF files are read. Scanned PDF pages are read by Apple’s text recognition on your Mac, and nothing is uploaded.

Pitfalls

• Pages, Numbers and Keynote files are not read. Export them to Word, PowerPoint, Excel or PDF first.
• Your 10 most recently modified documents convert free. The one-time unlock converts the rest.
• A password-protected or damaged document gets a red triangle on its row, with the reason.

The file types and fields are in the Documents docs.