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claven · 2020-11-28T15:01:33.905Z

What magic is this?

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To me, as a non-coder, this really is magic.

akos0215 · 2020-11-30T19:57:59.561Z

I’m glad you find it cool!

hskiba · 2020-12-03T14:01:48.779Z

Is it possible to specify explicit paths to the emex files? I ran npm i -g yarle-evernote-to-md but things are hanging for me when I execute yarle. I’m not sure if this is because it can’t find the emex file or something else.

akos0215 · 2020-12-04T06:28:17.582Z

Hi @hskiba!
You can specify the location of your enex file(s) in the config file’s enexSource property. Pls check https://github.com/akosbalasko/yarle for details.

About the hanging: could you please send the commands you typed, and their outputs? Thank you!

hskiba · 2020-12-05T13:18:24.894Z

Thanks for the reply! Below is an example of what I’m running. Running this just hangs.

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I tried a different approach and was able to get things to run by running the following.

npm install
npm run build --if-present
npm start

One thing I’m noticing is that tags and metadata do not appear to be in the converted files. I did check my enex files and the information is in there. Am I missing a step here?

Thanks again!

dsteinbock · 2020-12-09T21:47:13.949Z

@akos0215 I posted my experience using your wonderful tool over here:

10k notes in Evernote...How to start? Help

I tested and compared 4 different methods for converting an Evernote .enex export into markdown for Obsidian, on MacOS. Import into Joplin (as markdown), export as markdown. Import into Bear, export as markdown. evernote2md - https://github.com/wormi4ok/evernote2md yarle - https://github.com/akosbalasko/yarle Joplin and Yarle were the best at properly converting formatting, including tables and web clips. Their markdown output is nearly identical. The other two were fine, but didn’t output …

I want to alert you to a couple of bugs I found and also give some feedback. I’m on MacOS 10.15.7 and used the no-install npx method.

Template path bug

I kept getting an error that my template file couldn’t be found. The error showed that yarle was looking for my template deep inside the .npm directory:
'/Users/dsteinbock/.npm/_npx/47104/lib/node_modules/yarle-evernote-to-md/dist/../ds-template.md'

My workaround was to back out of that directory with the following path in my config file: "templateFile": "../../../../../../ds-template.md",

It would be great if it just worked with absolute paths instead. Same for the enex source file, which I had to specify as "/../../test2.enex" - which is just confusing.

Location block bug

When a note has no location metadata attached, yarle outputs the template text when it should just skip outputting location:

---
evernote-notebook: test2
created-at: 2020-03-01T12:10:28-08:00
modified-at: 2020-12-09T13:03:55-08:00
{location-block}location: {location}{end-location-block}
tags: #test #test2
---

Feedback

Please don’t convert the filenames to lowercase. In Obsidian, since we use filenames directly in note text as links, the letter case is meaningful. So converting to lowercase is a loss of data.

akos0215 · 2020-12-09T22:04:26.708Z

Hi @dsteinbock!
Wow, thank you for these great feedbacks, I’ll fix the things you mentioned of course!

dsteinbock · 2020-12-09T22:07:37.753Z

Awesome, thank you!

I just submitted these as Issues on your repository for easier tracking: #115, #114, #117.

fdbesanto · 2021-01-20T06:23:37.261Z

Dear Akos0215,

I wondered if you could please add a get start note with Yarle for folks like me that are not developers. I was unable to use and set up Yarle.

Many thanks for your help.

Best wishes,
Fernando

boardtc · 2021-01-26T14:49:28.115Z

I read about Obsidian today on Exploding Topics for the first time. I’m a long time Evernote user and as a markdown advocate, I was very excited reading about Obsidian.

Please, could you tell me the current working status of this plugin as I’d be interested in pulling all my stuff into Obsidian and having a look?

Thanks!

akos0215 · 2021-01-26T19:20:31.461Z

Hi @boardtc!

Currently I’m not planning to embed Yarle into Obsidian as a plugin. It is a standalone tool that anyone can use freely, so you can give it a try if you wish: https://github.com/akosbalasko/yarle
If you have any questions or problemns with the tool, you can reach me there in the Issues or in the Discussion page.
See you there!

Keppler · 2021-04-01T23:00:48.658Z

Hello @akos0215,

I’m trying to run Yarle on Windows 10. I run it with the follwoing command:
npx -p yarle-evernote-to-md@latest yarle --configFile “config.json”
This is in the directory where the config.json lies. To make sure I have everything correct, I tried the config with “.\config.json”, "config.json, and without the “” as well, in case I got the syntax confused. I also tried the full file path.

Every time, I get an error that reads, roughly translated as “the system can’t find the inputed path”.

Can you advise on a possible fix for that?

akos0215 · 2021-04-05T16:27:31.751Z

Hi @Keppler ,

I released a desktop versions of Yarle with a graphical user interface which eliminates configurational, platform-dependent and other commandline problems. i tried to implement a straight-forward solution to configure and use Yarle easier than before. Please give it a try.

cheers,
akos

tokeriis · 2021-04-09T08:29:46.712Z

This is really nice, I will give it a spin.

tokeriis · 2021-04-09T09:24:32.883Z

I cannot select more than one .enex file.
It seems that the configuration options are not respected. I have chosen options like use one ressource folder, StandardMD, etc, which seem not to be used.
Most formatting of notes, like basic stuff like bold text, seems to be lost.

Mac OS 10.15.7, YARLE desktop Version 4.0.3.

Log:

config: true
config: true
config: true
config: true
config: true
config: “d”
config: “dd”
config: “ddm”
config: “ddmm”
config: “ddm”
config: “dd”
config: “dd.”
config: “dd.m”
config: “dd.mm”
config: “dd.mm.”
config: “dd.mm.2”
config: “dd.mm.”
config: “dd.mm.y”
config: “dd.mm.yy”
config: “dd.mm.yyy”
config: “dd.mm.yyyy”
path: undefined
TypeError: Use delete() to clear values
path: undefined
TypeError: Use delete() to clear values
path: /Users/tre/Desktop/Notebackup/Analyse Ulveliv (1947).enex
Current template is: {title-block}# {title}{end-title-block}

{content-block}{content}{end-content-block}

{created-at-block}Created at {created-at}.{end-created-at-block}
{updated-at-block}Last updated at {updated-at}.{end-updated-at-block}
{source-url-block}Source URL: .{end-source-url-block}

{tags-block}
Tagged:
{tags}
{end-tags-block}

setting paths

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tokeriis · 2021-04-09T09:26:19.007Z

Also, the app seems to loose settings when closing and reopening.

akos0215 · 2021-04-09T09:52:09.562Z

Hi @tokeriis ,

thanks for the tests, i check the issues.

Loosing a config is not a bug, currently the app starts with default settings every time. So keeping the settings is a good feature request

thank you!

akos0215 · 2021-04-09T11:05:59.070Z

@tokeriis ,

didn’t you miss step 4, to select the output folder? as I see it in the logs, the path is undefined.

tokeriis · 2021-04-09T11:12:36.138Z

I did set the output folder.

akos0215 · 2021-04-09T14:00:36.414Z

ok, thx. it’s strange, I’ll investigate it.