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ENEX import tool ignores line breaks and bullet points #3

Open CR0CKER opened 7 years ago

CR0CKER commented 7 years ago

Importing notes from Evernote ends up removing line breaks, paragraphs and bullet points

nickAtWybar commented 7 years ago

Just started trying out this tool and am running into the same issue. This is probably a roadblock for quite a few users switching from evernote to standard notes, as I write many notes with many line breaks, paragraphs, and most of all bullet points.

ElCoyote27 commented 7 years ago

Same here.. my line breaks are gone. I went to the Slack server of Standard Notes and it seems Evernote creates .enex files that carry HTML. Line breaks are in fact exported this way: <div>line1</div><div>line2</div>, which the ENEX import tool doesn't like. I'm currently trying to figure an alternate solution..

ElCoyote27 commented 7 years ago

Small workaround that works for me on simple text notes:

1) export your notebook to .enex from EverNote, take a backup copy. $ cp -a MyNotebook.enex.orig MyNotebook.enex

2) Post-process your .enex using 'sed' and change </div><div> AND <br/> to a random string (I'm using WANAFOOBAR)

$ sed -i -e 's@</div><div>@WANAFOOBAR@g' MyNotebook.enex

3) Process the resulting .enex on https://dashboard.standardnotes.org/tools

4) Post-process the resulting evernote-to-sn.txt once more to replace WANAFOOBAR with '\n'

$ sed -i -e 's@WANAFOOBAR@\\n@g' evernote-to-sn.txt

5) Import your Data Archive in Standard Notes.

nickAtWybar commented 7 years ago

@ElCoyote27 Thanks for responding back here - your post inspired some work between myself and a friend of mine to create a set of python scripts which convert Evernote notes --> standard notes Plus Editor. We took your code, converted it into Python, and made it for several cases - line breaks, bold, and unordered lists (these were my deal breakers for evernote import).

Flow: export.enex - convert_before.py - output pre_output.enex. take pre_output.enex, upload to standard note conversion tool - get evernote-to-sn.txt run convert_after.py on evernote-to-sn.txt

Consequently, my notes all have html tags in the plain editor, as I write mainly in bullet points (< ul > and < li > tags everywhere) In the plus editor it is a proper bulleted list. Another consequence is no real mobile reading, as mobile does not currently support plus editor.

However it's a workable solution for now, so glad I have switched now, so thanks!

moughxyz commented 7 years ago

Hey @nickAtWybar, do you have a link to the Python script?

ErikBjare commented 7 years ago

I'd like a little more formatting preserved before running the converter tool myself.

Not sure what is working, feel free to check the boxes @mobitar:

I'm assuming the note format should be Markdown.

Started using SN exclusively in June, just did my ENEX export from Evernote yesterday. Might be interested in fixing what's missing and sending a PR.

nickAtWybar commented 7 years ago

Hey guys, I've been meaning to post those files, thanks for the prod @mobitar and @ErikBjare .

Erik, you can edit the 2 py files to correctly convert. Please note that this is for the Plus Editor of Standard Notes, not the simple editor.

Rough process:

I'm a bit new to this, so hopefully this works for you guys: https://gist.github.com/nickAtWybar/d7129b379d15d6d7b89b9c12a00a1e7e

ErikBjare commented 7 years ago

@nickAtWybar Thanks for the script!

I will take a look but would prefer to see the "official" converter improve before resorting to non-userfriendly hacks.

moughxyz commented 7 years ago

I think an Evernote to Markdown converter might be a good tool to add to this toolchain. Currently the converter only preserves newlines and paragraphs since the default editor is plaintext, and things like bold and italics can't be properly expressed.