exporteer_evernote_osx

This is a very simple tool for exporting data from Evernote. It uses AppleScript to tell the Mac Evernote app to perform an export.

Usage

Install:

1. Install python3 and pip
2. pip3 install exporteer_evernote_osx

Before running an export, you might wish to ensure the app has synced with the cloud:

exporteer_evernote_osx sync

To export all your notes to HTML files, with each notebook in a separate subdirectory:

exporteer_evernote_osx export -n TARGET_DIR

To export all notes matching a query (for instance, notes created this year) to an enex file:

exporteer_evernote_osx export -Eq 'created:year' TARGET_FILE.enex

Links between notes

Evernote's export functionality does not embed the note's unique identifier, or the name of the notebook to which the note belongs, into the HTML or enex files. Also, any links between notes are exported as links into the Evernote app, rather than links between the files.

To address these limitations, you can run this tool in 'enhanced' mode:

exporteer_evernote_osx export -e TARGET_DIR

In this mode, the tool modifies the HTML files after export to add extra metadata fields containing the notebook name and note URL.

NOTE: This can be very slow and also bog down your computer. I suggest exporting the notes in batches of at most a few hundred, using the -q parameter, and restarting the Evernote app between each batch. Then you can combine them into one folder like this:

exporteer_evernote_osx merge TARGET_DIR FIRST_BATCH_DIR SECOND_BATCH_DIR..

Finally, you can replace the evernote:// links in the HTML files with links to the corresponding exported files, by using the relink command:

exporteer_evernote_osx relink TARGET_DIR

This may take a while with large numbers of notes - my current implementation is pretty inefficient.

More documentation

Full command list and options can be seen in the doc folder.

Development

Setup:

1. Install python3 and pip
2. Clone the repo
3. I recommend creating a venv:

   cd exporteer_evernote_osx
   python3 -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate
   

4. Install dependencies:

   pip install .
   pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
   

To run integration tests (these assume you've created at least a couple notes this month in a couple different notebooks):

PYTHONPATH=src pytest

(Overriding PYTHONPATH as shown ensures the tests run against the code in the src/ directory rather than the installed copy of the package.)

To run the CLI:

PYTHONPATH=src python -m exporteer_evernote_osx ...

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/brokensandals/exporteer_evernote_osx.

License

This is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.