Evernote Internal Links broken on import with Text format links using Importer and YARLE

[nateB]

What I’m trying to do

Migrate from Evernote and preserve internal links. I’ve followed guides in the Obsidian and YARLE documentation, but internal links are still broken following import.

I believe this is because

1. the format of the links in notes is Text
2. the Obsidian Importer and YARLE methods rely consistency of link text and note name in order to match link to note on import
3. my link text in the Evernote note isn’t the same as the note name.

I am able get internal links to successfully work if I find the source note and change the internal link format to Title prior to export. However, there’s not easy way to identify internal links with the Text format in Evernote, no way to bulk change the format, and there are too many links to do manually.

What I’m asking is

• Are there are configurations that would enable internal links for Text format sources?
• Is there some way to do link matching in the import process that doesn’t rely on the text in the link to find the correct linked note?

The Issue

In Evernote, I have a source note with this:

Text is: Conversations on company profile editing for the Partners pages

And the linked text, “profile editing for the Partners pages” points to another note in as evernote:///view/2768084/s24/d81…

This link works. The linked note has the title Partners, Company Profiles and exists in another notebook.

In Obsidian, following import, the note shows

Text is: Conversations on company profile editing for the Partners pages

But the link is broken. It’s trying to link to “company%20profile%20editing%20for%20the%20Partners%20pages”

Things I have tried

• Following instructions at yarle/Templates.md at master · akosbalasko/yarle · GitHub and GitHub - akosbalasko/yarle: Yarle - The ultimate converter of Evernote notes to Markdown, I’ve
  • created Table of Contents notes for each notebook and
  • added extra template blocks for GUID and Evernote Link in my configuration.
• Used YARLE to import a group of notes using multiple .enex files.
• Disabled Levenshtein in links because there were too many errors matching link text to files.
• Imported the same group of .enex files with Obsidian and the links are still broken.

[akos0215]

Hi @nateB ,

Thanks for trying Yarle!
About the wrong links, could you pls check whether urlEncodeFileNamesAndLinks is true?
It should be false.
If it is, then could you pls share the whole config?
Thanks a lot!

[nateB]

Thank you for putting Yarle out there and helping here!

I did have urlEncodeFileNamesAndLinks = false.

This was the whole config (created after using the GUI):

{"enexSources":
["/Volumes/Media/2024-03-25/General.enex","
/Volumes/Media/2024-03-25/Projects - Live.enex","
/Volumes/Media/2024-03-25/Resources.enex","
/Volumes/Media/2024-03-25/Work Logs.enex"],"
outputDir":"/Users/nB/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~md~obsidian/Documents/Starter/Yarling","
isMetadataNeeded":true,"
isNotebookNameNeeded":false,"
isZettelkastenNeeded":false,"
useZettelIdAsFilename":false,"
plainTextNotesOnly":false,"
skipLocation":true,"
skipCreationTime":true,"
skipUpdateTime":true,"
skipSourceUrl":true,"
skipWebClips":false,"
skipTags":true,"
useHashTags":true,"
outputFormat":"ObsidianMD","
taskOutputFormat":"ObsidianMD","
skipEnexFileNameFromOutputPath":false,"
keepMDCharactersOfENNotes":false,"
monospaceIsCodeBlock":false,"
keepOriginalHtml":false,"
currentTemplate":"---\n\n
{source-url-block}source: {source-url}{end-source-url-block}\n
{created-at-block}created: {created-at}{end-created-at-block}\n
{updated-at-block}modified: {updated-at}{end-updated-at-block}\n
{tags-block}tags: {tags}{end-tags-block}\n
{notebook-block}notebook: {notebook}{end-notebook-block}\n
{location-block}location: {location}{end-location-block}\n\n
---\n\n
{title-block}# {title}{end-title-block}\n\n
{content-block}{content}{end-content-block}\n
***\n
{evernotelink-block}{evernotelink}{end-evernotelink-block}\n\n
{evernoteguid-block}{evernoteguid}{end-evernoteguid-block}","
resourcesDir":"_resources","
trimStartingTabs":false,"
convertPlainHtmlNewlines":false,"
encryptionPasswords":[""],"
nestedTags":{"separatorInEN":"_","
replaceSeparatorWith":"---","
replaceSpaceWith":"-"},"
logseqSettings":{"journalNotes":false},"
obsidianSettings":{"omitLinkDisplayName":true},"
dateFormat":"YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ssZ","
imageSizeFormat":"ObsidianMD","
keepImageSize":true,"
keepOriginalAmountOfNewlines":false,"
urlEncodeFileNamesAndLinks":false,"
haveEnexLevelResources":true,"
haveGlobalResources":false,"
useUniqueUnknownFileNames":true,"
useLevenshteinForLinks":false,"
keepFontColors":false,"
sanitizeResourceNameSpaces":true,"
replacementChar":"_","
replacementCharacterMap":{"<":"_","
>":"_","
:":"-","
\"":"_","
/":"_","
\\":"_","
|":"_","
?":"_","
*":"_"}
}

[nateB]

@akos0215 does anything appear evidently wrong with the config above ^