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Download YARLE, the ULTIMATE CONVERTER OF EVERNOTE notes here:

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Features:

Yarle can convert:

Works with:

Highly customizable:

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:

<a href="https://github.com/kmaasrud/awesome-obsidian" rel="Awesome Obsidian">Obsidian</a>

<a href="https://github.com/logseq/awesome-logseq" rel="Awesome Logseq">LogSeq</a>

<a href="https://tana.inc" rel= "Tana">Tana</a> (check details and limitations <a href="#tana_limitations">here</a>)

<a href="https://heptabase.com/" rel="Heptabase">Heptabase</a>

Feedback, Appreciation, Donation:

If you have an idea on how to improve the tool or face any problems, feel free to raise an issue, or even contribute! If you like the product, you can give a star here on github, or you can <a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/akosbalasko" target="_blank"><img src="https://cdn.buymeacoffee.com/buttons/default-yellow.png" alt="Buy Me A Coffee" height="41" width="174"></a>

Yarle's supporters said:

<!--START_SECTION:buy-me-a-coffee--><div><img src="https://github.com/akosbalasko/coffee-to-file/blob/main/assets/bmc-logo.png?raw=true" width="30"><img src="https://github.com/akosbalasko/coffee-to-file/blob/main/assets/bmc-logo.png?raw=true" width="30"><img src="https://github.com/akosbalasko/coffee-to-file/blob/main/assets/bmc-logo.png?raw=true" width="30"> from <b>Someone</b> </div> <div><i>Thanks, this really helped me out of evernote!</i></div><br> <div><img src="https://github.com/akosbalasko/coffee-to-file/blob/main/assets/bmc-logo.png?raw=true" width="30"><img src="https://github.com/akosbalasko/coffee-to-file/blob/main/assets/bmc-logo.png?raw=true" width="30"><img src="https://github.com/akosbalasko/coffee-to-file/blob/main/assets/bmc-logo.png?raw=true" width="30"> from <b>john@thebeard.org</b> </div> <div><i>YARLE has just allowed me to transfer several years-worth of Evernote notes to Obsidian painlessly and astonishingly quickly. Your work has made my day. Thank you.</i></div><br> <div><img src="https://github.com/akosbalasko/coffee-to-file/blob/main/assets/bmc-logo.png?raw=true" width="30"><img src="https://github.com/akosbalasko/coffee-to-file/blob/main/assets/bmc-logo.png?raw=true" width="30"> from <b>@opscat</b> </div> <div><i>Thanks so much!</i></div><br><!--END_SECTION:buy-me-a-coffe-->

Proud to be suggested by:

<a href="https://github.com/kmaasrud/awesome-obsidian" rel="Awesome Obsidian"> <img src="screens/obsidian-logo.png" alt="drawing" width="100"/> </a> <a href="https://www.twosapp.com/import" rel="Twos App"> <img src="screens/twos-logo.jpeg" alt="drawing" width="100"/> </a> <a href="" rel="Tana Inc."> <img src="screens/tana-logo.svg" alt="drawing" width="100"/> </a> <a href="https://github.com/logseq/awesome-logseq" rel="Awesome Logseq"> <img src="screens/logseq-logo.png" alt="drawing" width="100"/> </a> <a href="https://help.noteplan.co/article/33-how-to-import-notes" rel="Noteplan help page"> <img src="screens/noteplan-logo.png" alt="drawing" width="100"/> </a> <a href="https://support.craft.do/hc/en-us/articles/4411890239121-Import-documents-into-Craft" rel="Craft.do support page"> <img src="screens/craft.do-logo.jpeg" alt="drawing" width="100"/> </a> <a href="https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/700b02fc-1e6c-46b1-8d68-5d8e17a55d33/" rel="Dendron import proposal"> <img src="screens/dendron-logo.png" alt="drawing" width="100"/> </a>

Instructions

<a href="#downloadApp">Download the application</a> 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 <path_to_your_file e.g. ./config.json>

Yarle intro and usage videos on Youtube:

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPMkm5zRIts">How to migrate notes from Evernote to Obsidian (using Yarle)</a><br> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZxMz67uYHg">YARLE: A lifeline to escape from Evernote</a>

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": "<replaced_X>"
         },
        {
         "type": "content",
         "regex": "a",
         "replace": "<replaced_a>"
        }
      ]
   "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: |

Property NameProperty valueMeaning
enexSourcesmultiple enex files, or a folder of the enex files(if you specify it via command line)specifies the exported Evernote notebook(s) as an absolute path
templateFilepath of your custom template fileif its not specified, a default template will be used
outputDirpath to your output dir (absolute or relative)this is the main output dir where the extracted markdown files and the external resources, images, pdf-s are going to be created
resourcesDir_resourcessubdir where attachments/external resources will be placed
isZettelkastenNeededtrue or falseputs Zettelkasten Id (based on time of creation) at the beginning of the file name
useZettelIdAsFilename  true or falseNote files are named by their creation date (those are interpreted as zettelIds)
plaintextNotesOnlytrue or falseskips any notes with attachments (e.g. notes containing pictures)
useHashTagstrue or falsewhether to add the pound sign in front of tags
outputFormatObsidianMD or StandardMDgenerates internal file links and highlights in Obsidian-style: highlights are going to be bounded by == instead of ` characters, file links are going to be as follows: ![[file-name]] instead of ![file-name](file-name). Possible values: ObsidianMD to get Obsidian-style notes, StandardMD or skip it completely, if you prefer Standard Markdown format.
haveEnexLevelResourcestrue or falsestores note resources on global _resources folder per enex export if enabled
monospaceIsCodeBlocktrue or falseif it's true then all deepest elements with monospace font style is recognized as Codeblocks
dateFormat stringISO 8601 specification of the expected date format (e.g. YYYY-MM-DD)
keepMDCharactersOfENNotestrue or falseset it true, if you used Markdown format in your EN notes
nestedTagsit's a complex property contains the following subitems: "separatorInEN", "replaceSeparatorWith" and "replaceSpaceWith" separatorInEN stores the tag separator used in Evernote, replaceSeparatorWith is the string to what separatorInEN should be replaced to, and replaceSpaceWith is the string to what the space character should be replaced to in the tags. For example using the default settings a tag tag1_sub tag of tag1 is going to be converted to tag1/sub-tag-of-tag1
keepImageSizeboolean preserve the images' size or not
imageSizeFormatObsidianMD or StandardMDspecifies the format if keepImageSize is set to True
urlEncodeFileNamesAndLinkstrue or falseURL-encodes linked file names and internal EN links . e.g "linked file.jpg" will be converted to "linked%20file.jpg"
sanitizeResourceNameSpacestrue or falseReplace spaces in resource names with the replacementChar. e.g "linked file.jpg" will be converted to "linked_file.jpg"
replacementCharstringthe replacement character. e.g "linked*file.jpg" will be converted to "linked_file.jpg". It defaults to "_"
replacementCharacterMap  JSON Object it contains character key-value pairs, the keys will be replaced by the proper values in the filename
globalReplacementSettings  JSON Array it contains search and replace pairs, the keys will be replaced by the proper values according to the given type (title or content). Please note: this property has to be in valid JSON Array format, and each item has to have <b>type</b> ('title', 'content' or 'tag'), <b>regex</b> (what you want to replace as a valid regular expression) and <b>replace</b> (what you want to push instead of the matched text) properties)
keepOriginalAmountOfNewlinestrue or falsekeep the original amount of newlines, default is false, when the multiple newlines are collapsed to one.
 generateNakedUrlstrue or falseif it's true, Yarle generates 'naked' external Urls without any extra characters. If its false, external Urls are wrapped by '<' and '>' characters
addExtensionToInternalLinkstrue or falseadds '.md' extensions at the end of internal file links, to make them recognizable by DevonThink and other tools
turndownOptions{...}additional configuration options for turndown, e.g., { "bulletListMarker": "-" } (only in Yarle config file, not desktop app)
obsidianSettings{...}settings for Obsidian output. Currently, omitLinkDisplayName is supported. If set to true links will be of the form [[foo]]. Conversely they will be of the form `[[foo
logseqSettings {...}settings for Logseq output, currently journalNotes property is supported, if it is set to true, then the notes will be converted to be recognizable by Logseq as Journal notes, the notes will be named by their creation date and they will be collected under journal folder. If it is false, then they will be converted to be Pages (e.g. simple notes, collected in pages folder).
taskOutputFormatObsidianMD or StandardMDOutput format of Evernote v10+ tasks. ObsidianMD will connvert tasks to match with Obsidian Tasks plugin's requirements. StandardMD will create plain tasks, loosing many features like reminders or due dates.
obsidianTaskTagstringa tag to put to a task converted from Evernote v10+ tasks. Optional by Obsidian Tasks plugin, pls check the details there.
trimStartingTabstrue or falseRemoves the tab characters from the beginning of every line in a note. It is meaningful, because Obsidian recognizes tabs as codeblocks by default and blocks recognition of links (for instance) in the line
convertPlainHtmlNewlines true or falseYarle converts newline html tags to newlines, even if they are within Evernote paragraphs.
encryptionPasswords string list of passwords used in any notes, separated by commas
useUniqueUnknownFileNamesboolean generates a couple of random characters at the end of the resource file names if the exact name cannot be recognised. For instance: unknown_filename-d2fd86c3.pdf
useLevenshteinForLinksbooleanit applies the link to the note with the filename that has the closest Levenshtein distance to the text of the link
keepEvernoteLinkIfNoNoteFoundboolean it keeps the link to the evernote note if no such note found among the converted files
convertColorsToMDHighlightboolean it converts colored highlights and custom font spans to standard markdown highlights
removeUnicodeCharsFromTagsbooleanit removes the unicode characters (like éáűőú) from tags

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

<img src="screens/tana-logo.svg" alt="drawing" width="50"/> 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

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Currently Yarle (or any other converter), cannot convert images into Tana Internal Format. Moreover Yarle converts Evernote tables to Tana as plain text.

Once Tana Internal Format supports these features, we are glad to fill these gaps in the conversion.

<img src="screens/hepta-logo.png" alt="drawing" width="50"/> Converting notes to Heptabase

Just select Heptabase as output format, and then a zip is going to be created as a result of the conversion that contains all of your notes with images, everything together, prepared to be uploaded to Heptabase.