Open AltoRetrato opened 5 days ago
Hi @AltoRetrato , Could you pls share the config that you used? And the version of Evernote you use for export. Thanks a lot!
Evernote 10.107.3-win-ddl-public (20240924143738) - Editor: v179.3.0 - Service: v2.11.0
Yarle config (renamed to JSON to be able to upload it here): yarle_20241003_185804.config.json
Thanks!
@AltoRetrato , And the log itself about the execution pls. thank you!
I did not save the log after the first conversion and couldn't find it saved anywhere, so I converted everything again using all default configuration values. Since I used the defaults (which include "keepEvernoteLinkIfNoNoteFound": false
), there are no more evernote:///view/[...]
links. However, I still have incorrect internal links that point to non-existing notes.
It seems the main issue is that, in Evernote, the note links (e.g., <a href="evernote:///view/aaaaaaa/bbb/cccccccc-cccc-cccc-cccc-cccccccccccc/dddddddd-dddd-dddd-dddd-dddddddddddd/">Evernote alternatives</a>
) use a note ID that is not included in the note attributes within the exported .enex files. Therefore, any program relying solely on the data in the .enex files can only "guess" which note to link to based on the text inside the anchor tag, which is not necessarily the actual name of the note it points to. When the link text matches the note name, the link works correctly; otherwise, it either points to a wrong note or to a non-existing one.
The only real solutions to this issue I can think of seem to be:
EDIT: a quick Python script to analyze the vault produced:
Results
Scanned notes : 2,965
Empty notes : 0
Internal links : 7,827
Invalid internal links: 1,009
Hi @AltoRetrato , Thanks for the details and insights, yeah, your conclusion is 100% correct. I checked 2/3 of the proposed solutions months and years ago, but unfortunately non of them can be achieved: "Having Evernote modify its software" - it's a closed company, feature request can be raised (as far as I remember I did it so, years ago), but there is no quarantee that anything will happen anytime. "API" - it's closed for newcomers too, I cannot have access to Evernote via API.
"Reading data" - that's a good point, I try to check it out soon. Thank you!
https://github.com/vzhd1701/evernote-backup uses the Evernote API to do a full local backup of notes and notebooks in a SQLite DB, including the guid
of each note and notebook. I'll later write a script to export from that DB to Markdown.
A kind of hack-ish alternative would be to use the Evernote web API to get the same data.
FWIW, I requested API access and receive my key in about 48 hours.
After importing from Evernote into Obsidian, links for notes point to
evernote:///view/[...]
instead of being converted to Obsidian links.In my case, a quick search in Obsidian for "evernote:///view/" showed 1.277 results...
Obsidian 1.6.7, Yarle 6.15.1, Windows 11.