evernote_to_markdown

This tool converts Notes from Evernote to Markdown files. In average it takes only 1 minute from downloading the tool until you have your notes as Markdown files.

This software is especially useful for anyone who wants to maintain notes outside of Evernote, without beeing dependent on the Evernote app.

Features

• Simple and fast: Download it, put your Evernotes next to the dowloaded file, and run it. Within seconds, your have all your Evernotes as Markdown files.
• The software extracts every note out of the Evernote export format .enex as single .md file, including each note's content and tags. The tags are placed as part of the file name, e.g. title-of-note[tag1_tag1_tag3].md
• The output files have clean file names without any unrecommended characters, such as whitespaces or commas.
• Runs on all platforms with Java installed.

How to use

• In Evernote, export Notes as an .enex file and name it notes.enex
• Download the latest release here and put it in the same folder as your notes.enex file
• Make the .jar file executable and run it (either double-click or via terminal using java -jar). After some seconds, you will see a folder notes_as_markdown, which includes all your exported notes as Markdown files.

Setup development environment for contributors

• Install Eclipse
• In Eclipse, create a new Java project with an arbitrary title and and workspace folder
• Download all files of this repository, and copy them into the workspace folder of the new Java project (replace existing files).
• In Eclipse, refresh the project folder to show all copied files
• Right-click on bin/xom -> build path -> add to build path

How to run the software in the dev environment

• In Evernote, export Notes as an .enex file
• Copy the exported file into the workspace folder of your java project
• In Eclipse, navigate to src/evernote_to_markdown, double-click on main.java, left-click on the green run button of Eclipse, and choose Application.

Troubleshooting, Known bugs

• If a note's title is very long or the note has many tags, the software terminates with error File name too long. To solve this, refactor long titles OR to many tags within the exported enex file.
• A few of the HTML-Tags, which are added by Evernote when exporting, are not beeing deleted by evernote_to_markdown yet.