Backup your notes & notebooks from Evernote locally and export them at any time!
*.enex
format, as notebooks or single notes.Download the latest release for your OS.
$ brew install evernote-backup
$ pipx install evernote-backup
$ pip install --user evernote-backup
Python 3.8 or later required.
$ docker run --rm -t -v "$PWD":/tmp vzhd1701/evernote-backup:latest
To log in to Evernote using OAuth with Docker, you'll have to forward port 10500 for a callback:
$ docker run --rm -t -v "$PWD":/tmp -p 10500:10500 vzhd1701/evernote-backup:latest init-db --oauth
This project uses poetry for dependency management and packaging. You will have to install it first. See poetry official documentation for instructions.
$ git clone https://github.com/vzhd1701/evernote-backup.git
$ cd evernote-backup/
$ poetry install
$ poetry run evernote-backup
To start you need to initialize your database.
$ evernote-backup init-db
Username or Email: user@example.com
Password:
Logging in to Evernote...
Enter one-time code: 120917
Authorizing auth token, evernote backend...
Successfully authenticated as user!
Current login will expire at 2022-03-10 10:22:00.
Initializing database en_backup.db...
Reading database en_backup.db...
Successfully initialized database for user!
By default, it will prompt you to enter your account credentials. You can provide them beforehand with --user
and --password
options.
If you log in to Evernote with Google or Apple accounts, you must use the --oauth
option.
To connect to Yinxiang instead of Evernote, use --backend china
option. Unfortunately, OAuth is not supported for Yinxiang yet.
Then you will be able to sync your account data.
$ evernote-backup sync
Reading database en_backup.db...
Authorizing auth token, evernote backend...
Successfully authenticated as user!
Current login will expire at 2022-03-10 10:22:00.
Syncing latest changes...
[####################################] 6763/6763
566 notes to download...
[####################################] 566/566
Updated or added notebooks: 23
Updated or added notes: 566
Expunged notebooks: 0
Expunged notes: 0
Synchronization completed!
You can interrupt this process at any point. It will continue from where it's left off when you will rerun evernote-backup sync
.
evernote-backup keeps track of the sync state and downloads only new changes that have been made since the last run. So every sync will go pretty fast, but you'll have to wait for a bit on the first run if you have a lot of notes in your account. Syncing uses the Evernote Cloud API.
*.enex
filesFinally, you can export your data into specified output directory
$ evernote-backup export output_dir/
Reading database en_backup.db...
Exporting notes...
[####################################] 23/23
All notes have been exported!
By default, evernote-backup will export notes by packing them into notebooks, one *.enex
file each. If you want to extract notes as separate files, use the --single-notes
flag.
To also include trashed notes in export, use the --include-trash
flag.
Exporting is performed wholly offline, and does not require access to the Evernote Cloud API to convert the notes.
That's it! So to export all your Evernote data, you will have to run three commands:
$ evernote-backup init-db
$ evernote-backup sync
$ evernote-backup export output_dir/
After first initialization, you can schedule evernote-backup sync
command to keep your local database always up-to-date. However, evernote-backup export
will always re-export all notebooks to the specified output directory.
In case your auth token that you initialized your database with expires, you have an option to re-authorize it by running the evernote-backup reauth
command. It has the same options as the init-db
command.
If you found a bug or have a feature request, please open a new issue.
If you have a question about the program or have difficulty using it, you are welcome to the discussions page. You can also mail me directly, I'm always happy to help.
evernote-backup is basically a clone of Evernote's original ENScript but simplified and stripped of its other functions. If you prefer to export your notes using Evernote's original tool, then you will need to take hold of Evernote's legacy client and run the following commands:
ENScript.exe syncDatabase /d backup.ebx /u your@email.com /p your_password
ENScript.exe exportDatabase /d backup.ebx /f output_dir
I've also combined a bigger list where I included all adjacent projects that I could find.
Project | Description | Language |
---|---|---|
ExportAllEverNote | Export notes in ENEX format driectly from your account | Python |
evernote2 | Improved version of standard Evernote SDK. Also provides a tool for exporting notes driectly from your account | Python |
evernote-to-sqlite | Converts ENEX files into SQLite database | Python |
enote | Utility that can backup Evernote notes and notebooks | Python |
evernote-exporter | Export notes from old Evernote local database .exb format | Python |
Project | Description | Language |
---|---|---|
SyncToGit | Syncs your notes with their resources to the git repository in HTML format | Python |
evermark | A command line tool for syncing markdown notes to Evernote | JavaScript |
eversync | Sync your local directories with evernote notebooks | Python |
EverMark | A tool that can sync local markdown/text notes to Evernote | Python |
LocalEvernote | Syncs local directory containing notes in Markdown format with Evernote | Python |