Export Fathom Transcripts to Obsidian
The short answer: this is the cleanest destination of all, because an Obsidian vault is literally a folder of markdown files and Fathom transcripts export perfectly as markdown. Bulk export as .md, unzip into a folder in your vault, done. No import wizard, no conversion, no sync service. Obsidian indexes them the moment they hit the disk.
The only real problem is upstream: Fathom has no bulk export, so getting hundreds of meetings out one at a time by hand is the blocker. That's the part the extension removes.
How to do it, step by step
Bulk export from Fathom as markdown
Install the TranscriptExporter Chrome extension, connect Fathom, select .md, and export everything. You get a ZIP of markdown files named by meeting title and date.
Unzip into your vault
Create a Meetings/ folder in your vault and extract the ZIP there. Obsidian picks the files up instantly. That's genuinely the whole import process.
Link meetings into your knowledge graph
Add wikilinks from meeting notes to your existing people and project notes: [[Acme Corp]], [[Jane Doe]]. Backlinks then show every meeting a person or project appears in, and graph view maps your actual working relationships.
Optional: automate the indexes
The Dataview community plugin can generate live tables of meetings by date or participant. Pair with Obsidian's built-in search (which handles thousands of files effortlessly, fully offline) and your meeting history becomes a first-class part of your second brain.
Why Obsidian people care about this
If you run a vault, you already believe the thesis: your knowledge should live in plain files you own, not in someone else's database. Your meeting history is some of the highest-value knowledge you produce, and right now it lives in a SaaS tool's per-meeting web view. Exporting it to markdown brings it home: local, greppable, linkable, version-controllable, and immune to subscription changes. Export once for the backfill, then top up monthly.
Common questions
What does the markdown look like?
Meeting metadata at the top (title, date, participants, duration), then the transcript with speaker labels and timestamps. Clean, readable, and consistent across every file.
Can new meetings sync into my vault automatically?
Close to it: the Pro upgrade auto-syncs new recordings to a Google Drive or Dropbox folder. Point that folder inside your vault (or sync it there) and new meetings appear as notes without manual exports.
Does this work with Obsidian Sync and mobile?
Yes. Once the files are in your vault they're ordinary notes: they sync with Obsidian Sync or any file-sync tool you already use, and they're readable on mobile.
Get every Fathom transcript out in one click
$29 one time. No subscription. Works on Chrome and Edge.
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