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Re: Notion API importer, with Databases to Bases conversion bounty

#51

Post by NalNezumi »

Several years ago I made a bare metal notion to obsidian conversion scripts. At the time there wasn't any Bases available so databases was just turned in to csv table. It was relatively simple, no dependency python script and just export your notion notes as a zips of markdowns and then check every file to fix linking and the weird naming (with some caveat that not all links are properly exported to markdown links by notion)

Today I learned that obsidian have an API towards it. Still I wonder why it's not just easier to use notions "download your pages as markdown". Notion would very dislike an API that allows users to migrate away from it and probably actively would sabotage it. "download notes as markdown" is however a user service, which they probably don't want to break. (maybe now that they added an offline mode too late, I don't know)

Re: Notion API importer, with Databases to Bases conversion bounty

#53

Post by jitl »

NalNezumi wrote: post #51

Several years ago I made a bare metal notion to obsidian conversion scripts. At the time there wasn't any Bases available so databases was just turned in to csv table. It was relatively simple, no dependency python script and just export your notion notes as a zips of markdowns and then check every file to fix linking and the weird naming (with some caveat that not all links are properly exported to markdown links by…

(I work at Notion and built the html exporter during my hiring process work trial in 2019, opinion is my own)

I would love to two-way sync Notion Obsidian vault. Notion is focused on online collaboration, Obsidian is focused on file-over-app personal software customization; there’s so much Obsidian can do especially with plugins that Notion isn’t able to address. If we can make the two work together even if it’s not perfectly seamless, it would extend usefulness of both tools by uniting their strengths and avoiding the tradeoff of their weaknesses.

If only I had an extra 24h per day I’d build it myself, but it needs some fairly complex machinery for change tracking & merging which would require ongoing support so it’s not something I can tackle responsibly as a weekend project.

At the least we could offer YAML frontmatter as an option for Notion’s markdown export feature. Maybe I can get to that today I have a few spare hours.

Re: Notion API importer, with Databases to Bases conversion bounty

#54

Post by jumploops »

danielscrubs wrote: post #30
jumploops wrote: post #6

Everyone is looking down on LLM-assisted dev here, but I think it's a great fit. I also don't believe it can be one-shotted (there's too many deltas between Notion's API and Obsidian). With that said, LLMs are great for enumerating edge-cases, and this feels like the perfect task for Codex/Claude Code. I'd implore the obsidian team/maintainers to take a stab at building this with LLMs. Based on personal experience, t…

I don’t get the llm shilling. If you think you can earn 50k with some prompts, then earn it. Why _instead_ shill for llms? Feels like stock traders having courses for how YOU could earn big bucks. They themselves have photos taken with one day rented Ferraris… We all lean on LLMs in one way or another, but HN is becoming infested with wishful prompt engineers. Show, dont tell. Compete on the market instead of yet ano…

Uh, sorry?

The bounty here is just $5k, and if you read my comment, I’m suggesting that the maintainer(s), even with LLMs, will likely spend a similar amount in inference + cost of their own time, however they’ll likely produce a solution more robust than what the bounty alone will produce.

To be clear: I’m not advocating that someone simply vibe-codes this up.

That’s already happening (2 PRs when this hit HN), both with negative feedback.

I’m suggesting that the maintainers should give LLM-assisted dev a try here, as they already have context on the Obsidian-side API.

Re: Notion API importer, with Databases to Bases conversion bounty

#55

Post by ath3nd »

jumploops wrote: post #54
danielscrubs wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t get the llm shilling. If you think you can earn 50k with some prompts, then earn it. Why _instead_ shill for llms? Feels like stock traders having courses for how YOU could earn big bucks. They themselves have photos taken with one day rented Ferraris… We all lean on LLMs in one way or another, but HN is becoming infested with wishful prompt engineers. Show, dont tell. Compete on the market instead of yet ano…

Uh, sorry? The bounty here is just $5k, and if you read my comment, I’m suggesting that the maintainer(s), even with LLMs, will likely spend a similar amount in inference + cost of their own time, however they’ll likely produce a solution more robust than what the bounty alone will produce. To be clear: I’m not advocating that someone simply vibe-codes this up. That’s already happening (2 PRs when this hit HN), both…

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Re: Notion API importer, with Databases to Bases conversion bounty

#56

Post by srid »

count wrote: post #49
chatmasta wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I only briefly glanced at your project, but it doesn’t look like a commercial offering or a component of one… what is your motivation for paying people to do this work? I would think bounties would be used more often by companies who need some open source feature for interoperability or integration purposes…

Having more money than free time but still wanting a thing to get done. Lots of folks pay good money for hobbies (video games, golf fees, bicycle purchases, etc.).

Can you deduct these expenditures fully in income tax?

Re: Notion API importer, with Databases to Bases conversion bounty

#57

Post by zwnow »

sindriava wrote: post #42
zwnow wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you think this is what I wrote, you should go to reading comprehension courses.

While I understand you wrote "free time", this isn't Reddit. Keep the snarkiness to a minimum.

This website is worse than reddit. Pretentious AI bros everywhere. It even has the reddit color.

Re: Notion API importer, with Databases to Bases conversion bounty

#58

Post by dtkav »

jitl wrote: post #53
NalNezumi wrote: post #51

Several years ago I made a bare metal notion to obsidian conversion scripts. At the time there wasn't any Bases available so databases was just turned in to csv table. It was relatively simple, no dependency python script and just export your notion notes as a zips of markdowns and then check every file to fix linking and the weird naming (with some caveat that not all links are properly exported to markdown links by…

(I work at Notion and built the html exporter during my hiring process work trial in 2019, opinion is my own) I would love to two-way sync Notion Obsidian vault. Notion is focused on online collaboration, Obsidian is focused on file-over-app personal software customization; there’s so much Obsidian can do especially with plugins that Notion isn’t able to address. If we can make the two work together even if it’s not…

In the age of Claude Code having real-time collaboration + local-first markdown + easy to write custom plugins is the future. It makes no sense to lock up your documents in a saas product that gatekeeps your access to using AI on your own documents.

That's why I've been working Relay [0] - a privacy-preserving local-first collaboration plugin for Obsidian.

Our customers really like being able to self-host Relay Servers for complete document privacy while using our global identity system to do cross-org collaboration with anyone in the world.

[0] https://relay.md

Re: Notion API importer, with Databases to Bases conversion bounty

#59

Post by rtkwe »

lihaoyi wrote: post #20

I've had a pretty good experience offering bounties on my own projects: - https://github.com/orgs/com-lihaoyi/discussions/6 If you look at that thread, you'll see I've paid out quite a lot in bounties, somewhere around 50-60kUSD (the amount is not quite precise, because some bounties I completed myself without paying, and others I paid extra when the work turned out to be more than expected). In exchange, I did manag…

Is this the standard way to do bounties, where you take applications and then choose someone to attempt the bounty? I always thought you'd just state the requirements and the bounty and then screen the submissions and chose a winner.

Granted this does feel a bit less like asking for spec work so I can see why they might have chosen to go this way instead of generically accepting bounties.

Re: Notion API importer, with Databases to Bases conversion bounty

#60

Post by ayewo »

wraptile wrote: post #32

As someone who wrote a fair share of notion API code - the 5,000$ bounty is not enough and I'm only half-joking here. That being said, yay open source bounties! People should do more of those.

There are a few more bounties like this out there.

1. Tenstorrent https://github.com/tenstorrent/tt-metal/issues?q=is%3Aissue%... $200 - $3,000 bounties

2. microG https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/2994 $10,000 bounty

3. Li Haoyi https://github.com/orgs/com-lihaoyi/discussions/6 multiple bounties (already mentioned upthread)

4. Algora also hosts bounties for COSS (Commercial OSS) https://algora.io/bounties

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