#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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#25

Hi!

Thank you for raising these issues around the UI, I create issue stories for them on Github and try to fix them!

#26

@akos0215 Thanks for this nice Yarle utility! It seems to be working well for me in Windows except with one strange issue. The output is creating a slash between all of my tags. So for the Evernote tag thisismytag it would be rendered in the markdown as #t/h/i/s/i/s/m/y/t/a/g/. My Evernote tags are in the metadata, not in the note body. I am not changing anything in your tag code block and am not checking the nested tags box or those fields. Thanks.

#27

Hi @obsidvicious ,

huh, it looks like a bug in the regexp part, thank you for reporting it, i check it soon!

#28

Hi @obsidvicious !
By default the ‘’ will be recognized as separator of nested tags(separatorInEN property), and replaced by ‘/’ (replaceSeparatorWith).
But in your case it looks like that separatorInEN is set to empty.
Could you please try to set separatorInEN to '’? Or if it has already been set,
could you please try to replace the default setting of ‘replaceSeparatorWith’ within nestedTags option by an empty string? It should eliminate the slashes from the generated tag strings.

#29

@akos0215 Thanks for your amazing work on Yarle. I have been an Evernote user since 2010 and I’m excited to move everything over to Obsidian. I have been testing the configuration and templates and everything seems to be working but importing notes with images. I can import notes with attached files like pdf and xlxs. I have not been successful in moving any notes with images into Obsidian. The images end up in resource folder named after the notes, but the notes are not created.

This is a typical log entry.

Conversion started at Sat Jan 08 2022 08:28:10 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
Converting note “2017 Study Journal LARGE ATTACHED PNG”…
relative resource work dir: ./_resources/2017_Study_Journal_LARGE_ATTACHED_PNG.resources
absolute resource work dir: C:\Users\derek\YARLE\drh\evernote-notebooks\notes\notes\Obsidian-test_resources\2017_Study_Journal_LARGE_ATTACHED_PNG.resources
resource SWTC3_116112813280.jpg addid in hash 6b11a9fc6d7ff3e4ea7dc5df82558bf2
mediaReference src ./_resources/2017_Study_Journal_LARGE_ATTACHED_PNG.resources/SWTC3_116112813280.jpg added
Failed to convert note: 2017 Study Journal LARGE ATTACHED PNG, {}
Conversion finished at Sat Jan 08 2022 08:28:11 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
Note “2017 Study Journal LARGE ATTACHED PNG” converted successfully in 0.313 seconds.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

#30

Hi @scuds !

Could you please send me the full config settings? I need it to try to figure out the problem, it looks really strange, so i have to investigate it further.
The config is logged at the beginning of the conversions. here is my email address if you wouldn’t like to share ot with others:
akos0215@gmail.com

thanks,
cheers,
akos