evernote2md

Introduction

This is a simple command line tool that can be used to extract journal entries from Evernote and turn them into a collection of Markdown files. In this tool's case the Markdown collection is built so it can easily be used as an Obsidian Vault.

Note that I wrote this tool with a very specific job in mind, for myself, so there are a couple of hard-coded things going on inside it (especially when it comes to some tidying up of tags). I may turn such things into configuration options in the future, but keep this in mind and be prepared to modify the code to taste if you have a use for this.

Installing

pipx

The package can be installed using pipx:

$ pipx install evernote2md

Homebrew

The package is available via Homebrew. Use the following commands to install:

$ brew tap davep/homebrew
$ brew install evernote2md

Usage

Getting ready to use

The first thing you will need to do is create an export of your Evernote notebook. I honestly can't remember the method, but it's whatever results in you having a zip file full of HTML files and directories containing attachments.

Assumptions for the "Vault"

As mentioned earlier, this tool assumes that you're going to be making an Obsidian Vault with the resulting Markdown. With this in mind the tool makes the following assumptions:

• You wish to have a YYYY/MM/DD folder hierarchy for the entries.
• You prefer to have all attachments held in a attachments folder below the location of the entry the attachments are for.

These are my preferences, if yours differ it should be simple enough to modify the code to taste (or, if what you prefer seems like it could be a reasonable configuration option, create an issue in the repo and tell me all about it).

Create the target "Vault"

Create a directory where the "Vault" will be created. Note that evernote2md creates all directories and files within this directory.

Perform the conversion

With all the above done and in mind, run the tool like this:

evernote2md evernote-data markdown-vault

where evernote-data is the path to the directory that holds all of the extracted Evernote files, and where markdown-vault is the directory you created that will be the Vault.

Getting help

If you need help please feel free to raise an issue.