diff --git a/packages/foam-vscode/src/features/commands/convert-links-format-in-note.ts b/packages/foam-vscode/src/features/commands/convert-links-format-in-note.ts
index e2c652ce0..dbf0e80cd 100644
--- a/packages/foam-vscode/src/features/commands/convert-links-format-in-note.ts
+++ b/packages/foam-vscode/src/features/commands/convert-links-format-in-note.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { fromVsCodeUri, toVsCodeRange } from '../../utils/vsc-utils';
 import { ResourceParser } from '../../core/model/note';
 import { IMatcher } from '../../core/services/datastore';
 import { convertLinkFormat } from '../../core/janitor';
-const vscode = require('vscode'); /* cannot import workspace from above statement and not sure what happened */
+import * as vscode from 'vscode';
 
 type LinkFormat = 'wikilink' | 'link';