EvernoteToAnytype

Enex to JSON converter, for export Evernote note to Anytype

Mac users

Please check this post to use this tool on Mac, big thanks to solomonikvik :
https://community.anytype.io/t/a-tool-to-import-evernote-notes-to-anytype/11483/52

Build

For packaged version :

pip install -r requirements.txt
# Manually copy a libcairo-2.dll into your python script folder
pip install PyInstaller 
pyinstaller run.py --additional-hooks-dir=.  --add-data "libs:libs" --add-data "image.ico:."

Usage

• Export your Evernote Notes (notes or a full notebook)

• Launch run.exe (if you use the release) or run.py (with python files from Github)

  • with some parameter to execute with CLI (command line)
  • directly to open the GUI (graphic interface)

• With GUI, drop your enex file(s) to convert (or a folder with them inside) or select them with the button and click to Convert

  • clic to Convert

• With CLI, you must provide parameters at least**"--enex_sources"** with one or more folder/file

GUI and CLI provides options. you can use them with options to be set on the interface or via these command-line parameters :

• --enex_sources, mandatory : add folders or enex files to convert
• --debug, optional : enables creation of a debug file By default, no debug files are created
• --nozip, optional : deactivates the creation of a zip file with the result, so you'll have a directory with all the json files By default, it create a zip
• --pwd PASSWORD, optional : set a global password for your encrypted notes. It will be used to decipher encrypted notes. If it is not correct, the note will not be decrypted (if the ask_pwd option is enabled, you will be asked for another password).
• --ask_pwd, optional : for each encrypted notes, a password will be requested (in CLI or GUI depending on your use). If a global password is also defined, it will be used first. If the password entered is incorrect, the note will not be decrypted. By default, no password is requested and no note is decrypted.

Other parameters are used for development testing only.

A _Converted_files zip is created in the folder of your enex files, containing the converted files. Import them into Anytype.

Limitations

This tool is usable! But beware of the limitations of each tool...

Converter limitations:

• Evernote tasks (and no Anytype equivalent, so nothing planned)
• Beware of exporting large enex files: they must be loaded into memory to be processed, so you may be limited to batch exporting.
• internal Evernote links are not transposable, so cannot be converted

Anytype limitations :

• Tables
  • No merged cells: the converter "unmerges" them and copies the content into each cell.
  • no block elements (checkbox, image, title, etc.):
    • when there's a single image or checkbox, the tool lets you import them (but you won't be able to edit them in Anytype unless you delete it)
    • when there are several checkboxes or lists, they are transformed into text ("[ ]", "[X]", "-")
    • when there are several images, only the first is kept
• Colors: colors are converted to the limited anytype list, trying to take the closest color...
• Some images are currently buggy
• SVGs are not supported (integration of a converter planned for the tool)
• no embedding for txt files, Google drive, etc.

Evernote limitations :

• notebook names are not exported
• no notebook stack export, so you have to export them one by one and recreate the tree structure once imported into Anytype (an how-to here)

Points to consider : Evernote exports are not clean (especially between Legacy and version 10): variations in the method for the same style, unnecessary divs, etc. Some cases may not be covered yet; you can report them to me.

Progess

Last update : v.1.0

• Bloc tree : Better management of offsets (lists, nested blocks)
• More strange case : Some corrections (incorrect Evernote xhtml processing)
• Encrypted notes : Decryption with various options
• Rebuild png image : Anytype doesn't support PNG if there are errors (CRC, ...) and it's common in Evernote, so the converter rebuilds them!
• Convert SVG to PNG : Anytype doesn't support SVG, so the converter convert them to PNG. Mind you, it takes a few seconds per image and the result isn't always perfect, but it's better than losing them...

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