Bring your notes

First launch always creates a new vault so the welcome notes can land in an empty folder. To use notes you already have, open that folder afterwards.

Open an existing folder

1. Click the vault button at the bottom of the sidebar, or type vault: / v: in search (Cmd+O or Cmd+K).
2. Choose Open Existing Folder.
3. Pick the folder that already contains your .md files.

That folder becomes a vault. Nothing is uploaded, converted, or copied elsewhere — Nolagmind just starts reading the files that are already there.

You can keep several vaults and switch between them with vault:.

What transfers from a folder of Markdown

If the folder is an Obsidian vault, or any other app that saved plain Markdown:

• Notes — .md files open as notes. YAML frontmatter becomes properties.
• Wikilinks — [[Note Name]] and [[Note Name|display text]] work. Renaming still rewrites those links across the vault.
• Folders — nested folders show up in the sidebar. images/ (and the older attachments/ name) next to a note are treated as image storage, not as note folders.
• Tags and aliases in frontmatter are read as built-in properties.

What does not transfer

Nolagmind does not load another app’s plugins, workspace layout, graph settings, or query language. In particular, from Obsidian:

• Community plugins, Dataview queries, Canvas, and Bases do nothing here.
• [[Note#Heading]] does not jump to a heading — the #… is treated as part of the note name. See Linking Notes.
• Embeds (![[Note]]), block references, LaTeX, and callout syntax are not features of this editor.
• You may see an .obsidian folder in the sidebar. Nolagmind does not use it; ignore it or leave it on disk for the other app.

Boards and mind maps are Nolagmind file types (.board.json and .mindmap.md). Other apps’ canvases or whiteboards will not open as those.

For a concise list of what this app does not do, see Limitations.