yarle-evernote-to-md

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Features:

Yarle can convert:

• 📝 Any text
• 📝 All metadata: original creation time, last modification time, tags, GPS location, notebook name, source URL
• 🔗 External links
• 🔗 Internal links among Evernote notes
• 💻 Codeblocks
• 🖼️ Inline Images
• 📎 Attachments
• 📄 Webclips

Works with:

• 📓 single enex file (one notebook exported from Evernote)
• 📚 or a folder of enex files supported (several notebooks exported and placed into the same folder locally)

Highly customizable:

• 🚀 Creates Markdown files matching to user-defined templates, see Templates introduced. See How to use templates with YARLE for details.
• 💡 Metadata support: Puts title, creation time, update time, tags, and latlong source, notebook, link to original html meta-information into md as metadata. (To set them, please set up a custom template)
• 🔨 Updates md files' creation, access, and modification timestamps according to the notes' original create/update/modification time.
• 🔨 Organizes all attachments into a _resources subfolder (to keep the notes' folder as simple as possible).

To where can I import the converted notes?

Any other note taking application which recognizes notes in standard markdown, like NotePlan or Craft, but Yarle supports some others that has specific format requirements too. These are:

Obsidian

LogSeq

Tana (check details and limitations here)

Heptabase

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Instructions

Download the application matching with your Operating system and double-click on it. (On mac, you need to right-click + Run to Open it, because Apple prevents to directly run an application downloaded from Internet)

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In order to perform conversion into Logseq format, please choose Logseq as Target format in the configuration panel, then choose the type of your notes (Journal Notes or Pages). For Logseq all the other options have already been pre-configured.

Using Yarle via command line

Just open a terminal, specify config options in a config file (options detailed in Configuration) and type the following:

npx -p yarle-evernote-to-md@latest yarle --configFile 

Yarle intro and usage videos on Youtube:

How to migrate notes from Evernote to Obsidian (using Yarle)
YARLE: A lifeline to escape from Evernote

Configuration:

To configure Yarle, you must create a config file. By default it looks like this:

{
    "enexSources": [
       "/absolute-path-of-your-enex-dir/test-template.enex"
       ],
    "templateFile": "/absolute-path-of-your-template-dir/sampleTemplate.tmpl",
    "outputDir": "/path-of-your-desired-output-folder",
    "isZettelkastenNeeded": false,
    "useZettelIdAsFilename": false,
    "plainTextNotesOnly": false,
    "skipWebClips": true,
    "useHashTags": true,
    "outputFormat": "StandardMD",
    "taskOutputFormat": "StandardMD",
    "urlEncodeFileNamesAndLinks": false,
    "skipEnexFileNameFromOutputPath": false,
    "monospaceIsCodeBlock": false,
    "keepMDCharactersOfENNotes": false,
    "keepOriginalAmountOfNewlines": false,
    "addExtensionToInternalLinks": true,
    "trimStartingTabs": false,
    "convertPlainHtmlNewlines": false,
    "encryptionPasswords": [],
    "nestedTags": {
      "separatorInEN": "_",
      "replaceSeparatorWith": "/",
      "replaceSpaceWith": "-"
   },
   "replacementCharacterMap": {
      "<": "_",
      ">": "_",
      ":": "_",
      "\"": "_",
      "/": "_",
      "\\": "_", 
      "|": "_",
      "?": "_",
      "*": "_"
    },
   "globalReplacementSettings": [
        {
         "type": "title" ,
         "regex": "X",
         "replace": ""
         },
        {
         "type": "content",
         "regex": "a",
         "replace": ""
        }
      ]
   "resourcesDir": "resources",
   "turndownOptions": {
      "headingStyle": "atx"
   },
   "dateFormat": "YYYY-MM-DD",
   "haveEnexLevelResources": true,
   "haveGlobalResources": false,
   "useUniqueUnknownFileNames": false,
   "useLevenshteinForLinks": false,
   "convertColorsToMDHighlight": false,
    "logseqSettings":{
        "journalNotes": false
    },
   "obsidianSettings": {
      "omitLinkDisplayName": false
    }

}

The following configurational properties are available: |

Metadata settings can be set via the template.

Note links over notebooks? No problem, here is what to do:

In order to minimize the wrong conversion of links due to duplicated note names, you need to do the followings:

1. Before export your notes: select all withing a notebook
2. Create a Table of Contents note
3. Export the notebook together with the TOC file
4. Start yarle and convert your notes

Converting notes to Tana

Yarle converts your notes to Tana Internal Format. To achieve this, the only thing you need to do differently than the default usage is to the output format as Tana Internal Format. The conversion will produce one file only called notes-in-TIF.json. It will contain all of your notes in Tana Internal Format, then you can import this file to Tana.

Limitations