Community resources: Importing from Roam
Here are some tips gathered from actual Roam users who made the transition to Tana and made guides to help others follow their footsteps:
- Ness Labs wrote a comprehensive article for anyone considering making the switch from Roam to Tana, and offers basic instructions as well.
- Lukas aka CortexFutura made a video clearly explaining the process of migrating from Roam to Tana, addressing the few differences and incompatibilities to take into consideration.
- Roam graphs are highly customized to the individual's work and may not map 1:1 with Tana, so community member Shashank outlined tips on how to do some very helpful preprocessing of your Roam graph before exporting.
- The original video by Tana team member Stian Håklev that demonstrated importing Roam graphs to Tana
Preprocessing by Shashank
Depending on whether you used attributes/tags/pages/nested pages, I can think of the following formats [[page]] , #page , #[[page]] , [[[[page]] [[page1]]]] , #[[[[page]] [[page1]]]] , page:: (are there more?!🤪)
All of these are perfectly handled by Tana. eg: #page and #[[page]] will be converted to an alias #page which points to the node page. In Tana you can remove this alias to turn #page into page by taking the cursor into #page, pressing Ctrl+K, typing "Remove alias for reference". However, I don't know if this can be done in bulk.
Solution: do this in bulk within Roam using Fabrice Gallet’s Find & Replace extension in Roam Depot. In this extension's settings there's a simple "Allow 'Whole Graph' Find & Replace" toggle, switch it on.
Now, go back to your graph, press Ctrl+P, type "Find &.." you'll see the "Find & Replace in Whole graph option".
Choose that, click, you'll see a blue pop-up. Now do your thing. turn #[[page]], #page into [[page]].
This was a simple example. There's regex support too.
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