# Import from Evernote

**URL:** <https://forum.obsidian.md/t/import-from-evernote/108>\
**Category:** Plugins ideas (Archival in progress)\
**Tags:** importer\
**Created:** [May 20, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/import-from-evernote/108 "2020-05-20T19:06:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![dsteinbock](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/dsteinbock/32/3996_2.png) [@dsteinbock](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/dsteinbock)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/import-from-evernote/108/32 "2020-12-09T21:47:13Z")

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

> [@10k notes in Evernote...How to start?](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/10k-notes-in-evernote-how-to-start/8446/15):
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> 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](https://github.com/wormi4ok/evernote2md) yarle - [https://github.com/akosbalasko/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:

```auto
---
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.

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