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Migrating from Obsidian to Kition

Your Obsidian vault can almost serve as a Kition vault as-is — here is the smooth transition.

Kition Team·Jan 22, 2026·7 min read

Why this is easy

Both Obsidian and Kition store documents as `.md` files. The syntax (wikilinks `[[...]]`, callouts `> [!note]`, code fences) overlaps heavily — no conversion needed for the content itself.

Five steps

  • Close Obsidian (avoid index locks)
  • Copy your vault as a backup
  • In Kition, point "open vault" at that directory
  • Audit Obsidian-plugin-specific syntax (e.g. Dataview) — won’t render but won’t be lost
  • Set up Hooks and MCP — your agent can now do what Obsidian could not

What you get on day one

  • An agent that actually runs commands, edits files, and scrapes the web
  • Native data tables — no Dataview or Database Folder needed
  • MCP integrations (Linear / Notion / GitHub) out of the box
  • Hooks make AI behavior auditable

Ready when you are.

Kition is a local-first AI workspace. Markdown documents, structured tables, and an AI agent — running on your own machine, against the model provider you choose.