#5

Hi @andrezgz!

Great, thank you for the details!

About the first problem (absolute paths), finally I understood that it’s not about the path of the enex file, but the template. Silly me, sorry for that. I released a new version (3.2.3) in which both of the enex and the template location are required to be specified as an absolute paths. (Btw I don’t get why I did not implement it including template paths previously. :confused: )
About the other issues: there is a feature request to handle plain urls according to the markdown standard, e.g. to generate them in format. When I implement that, I will skip escaping them, which will solve the issue you raised.
Code snippets: Similarly, we have a feat.request about code blocks, I’ll add to skip escaping to among its todo list.

About the attachments: your points are absolutely right, I did not consider these aspects at all. I’m thinking on a solution.

Thanks again for your feedbacks, I really appreciate it! :slight_smile:

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#6

Hi, I’m not really a techy person but am migrating from evernote to Obsidian for a number of reasons, including to future-proof my notes. I origiinally migrated my notes using Joplin, but it doesn’t do tags and I really would like my tags moved over. I only started using evernote to save quotes from my reading a little while ago, so I have under 400 notes, but it would be a pain to go through and re-tag them all.

So I tried using evernote2md but it doesn’t seem to work on my computer. It closes as soon as I open it for no apparent reason. I’ve tried running as administrator, troubleshooting, running in compatibility mode, etc. I have Windows 8.1. Anyone else have a similar problem? Know of any solutions?

I’m not even 100% sure I would know how to use it if I got it running but I’d like to try to figure it out.

Thanks for the help.

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#7

@SotS - try Yarle. It has been further improved over the last months.

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#8

@SotS And feel free to ask if you have difficulties/feature requests around Yarle, I’m glad to extend its funcionailities in order to make it work better.

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#9

Hey there! :slight_smile: Some kind of “newbie” instruction would be really helpful. I can’t get it to run because of an unexpected identifier - and I am not sure how to fix this. (Total terminal noob). Thanks and greetings! :slight_smile:

#10

Hi @changenow ,

I found a cool step-by-step guide about how to use Yarle here:

Of course, if you still have problems, don’t hesitate to reach me out here or on Github!
cheers!

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#11

I have started to use Yarle with the Mac app interface. It is early days but looking good so far.

Thank you @akos0215 for your work on it. I will feed back any issues into your GitHub page.

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#12

Thank you @timlawson , looking forward to your feedback!

#13

I’m still having issues with all these notes imported into Obsidian with YARLE. None of the images work in any of the notes, to start with. I’d like to address that before moving onto other issues.

#14

Hi @mangosteel !

Could you please summarize your problems as an issue on Yarle’s github page? I used to check it more frequently than this forum.

Thanks a lot!

#15

Hello. I am a new user of Obsidian. In order for me to start using Obsidian seriously, I need to, at least export one of my Evernote notebooks into Markdown file. I am using Yarle and I find that it is quite a good tool.

The thing that I like about Yarle is that it saved the Created Date and Modified Date into the file properties itself, so all my notes are not shown will today’s date in Windows Explorer.

However, I notice that the filename itself was created with the date and time. For example, my Hello World note will be exported as “20210630111111 Hello World.md” file. When I use Obsidian to open the files, I will see a lot of numbers (timestamp) on the left panel of Obsidian instead of the actual note’s title.

I am not a developer so I don’t dare to fork Yarle out and fix it. Any kind person here can at least point me to how I can make changes to Yarle to do it?

#16

Hi @jalur ,

I answered your question on github : Welcome to Yarle Discussions! · Discussion #118 · akosbalasko/yarle · GitHub

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#17

Hi there! Thank you everyone in this post. Great detailed info that should help me choose what option will work best for my situation.

I’m new to Obsidian and desperate to escape EN v10. To do that I need to convert somewhere in the neighborhood of 23k notes and ~15GB of data, about 12 years worth of info (hopefully I can just archive some of it at this point…). Thankfully, my workflows have always fit pretty comfortably into annual Notebooks with a few stray topical ones.

What I’m wondering is:

  1. is there a max size that is safe to convert at once?
  2. if notebooks are converted into separate vaults, are the links inside the various notes usable between vaults? I’m a heavy linker.

Thank you!

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#18

The notebooks become folders, which you can put inside the same vault.

#19

I just joined the forum. I’m also not a techy person but I need to learn to us Yarly to move my notes. Is there an option, as with Evernote2md (which also isn’t even loading for me), to convert Evernote tags to inline md text. I would like to have Evernote tags convert to [mdlinks] for Obsidian. Thanks

#20

Hi @EggToastie ,

It looks like (I did not test it, but someone reported it on Github) that Yarle supports EN10+ (there were some differences in how the images are stored in the enex file in the various EN versions, but they were fixed).
So, to answer your questions:

  1. No Yarle does it as a stream, no max size limitation.
  2. unfortunatelly linking notes stored in different notebooks (and hence enex files) are still not supported, I feel the pressure to start working on it, you’re the 3rd who’s missing the same feature.

cheers,
akos

#21

@chriswaterguy - the links between notebooks don’t come across that way.

@ForGe - tags come over perfectly for me with Yarle. I don’t use nested tags. I’m converting from EN 6.25.2. YMMV from v10.

@akos0215 ,

Thanks for the reply and Yarle. I downloaded via Github and tried converting a few of my folders (from EN legacy - v10 is just too horrible). I’m pretty happy with it overall, as far as getting bulk data into Obsidian. The biggest notebook I did was ~1GB. It only took a couple minutes. No links between notebooks is disappointing, but I tag so heavily that I should be able to find what I need.

The thing that’s tougher for me (but again, I do tag heavily, so…) is that alias links don’t come across. I get a ton of files that say “xxxxx.md has not been created yet”. I made a test folder with 4 notes, 1 of which was new, 2 notes that were duplicates of others, 1 an alias of one of the duplicates, then created a Table of Contents note from those 4. Starting on the TOC note, I only get a link to the new test note. What’s really interesting is the duplicated notes are entirely missing from the vault (but the originals did come over in an earlier trial). Obviously I have some things to play with before moving to exclusive Obsidian use. Am I missing a setting? I’ve tried “Add ‘md’ extension of internal links” and done it without.

UPDATE: The welcome screen appears before the program is actually finished installing. ORIGINAL: In a separate issue - when I run Yarle it appears to start up normally. I get the welcome screen, go to step 1 and choose the file I want to convert. When I do, the entire screen disappears, then the Welcome screen reappears. I can choose my file and continue from that point. Not a big deal, just an odd hiccup. I’m on Win10Pro if that helps.

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#22

Do the tags convert as #tags or [[tags]]?

#23

#tags
Not sure if there is a way to tweak that in the options.

#24

For anyone who is wondering -
After a bit of testing, it looks like the internal links that don’t work for me (in any given folder) are one or more of the following:

  1. what Obsidian would consider a “pretty link” but I think of as an alias in EN
  2. titles that contain a “#”
  3. titles that contain a “/”

EN allows internal and external links to your own notes. External versions still point to “https://evernote.com/shards/…”

What helped was to make a TOC note in EN right before exporting, then looking at it in Obsidian to see patterns.

I’m working through the notes that I’ll be converting (not all) and removing the characters Obsidian doesn’t like. As for the “pretty links” - I think that conversion just doesn’t work.

Not sure how any of this would work starting from EN v10.

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