I wanted to test using DT w/ Obsidian. I converted a plain text doc I was working on to Markdown, moved it to my Obisidan folder, but when opened in Obsidian, “(Alt: Google Drive)” turned into (Alt: Google Drive)
Is there a setting somewhere that can fix this or is this a known inconsistency?
It is not clear to me what you are describing. Do you mean it took the quotes out of the filename? If so, I recommend removing it from the filename anyway. Some characters must be avoided at all cost in filenames and double quotes is one of them.
the markdown document looks fine in devonthink, but I thought maybe it’s translating something differently than obsidian… I converted from RTF to Markdown, put it in my obsidian folder and looked at it there.
It wasn’t Obsidian but DEVONthink that changed the text …
DEVONthink has a (new) feature that automatically escapes RTF when pasted into or converted to Markdown. That’s where the unwanted escape characters in your record are coming from.
If you don’t want automatic escaping you have to use menu Edit > Paste and Match Style.
@cgrunenberg don’t know whether you have seen my edit in the other thread. Automatic conversion should really be optional.