Import from Evernote

[smiling_lion]

@akos0215 Hi! Thank you for your initiative! But I have the problem of converting, it gives me an error. Attaching the log file. What am I doing wrong?2020-10-29T04_24_33_757Z-debug.zip (1.0 KB)

[akos0215]

Hi @smiling_lion!
Thanks for giving the converter a try. Did you install the dependencies?

[smiling_lion]

Yes, sure. All as in the script manual.

Here is the command line log

C:\WINDOWS\system32>d:

D:>cd yarle-master

D:\yarle-master>npm i

up to date, audited 518 packages in 5s

10 vulnerabilities (9 low, 1 critical)

To address issues that do not require attention, run:
npm audit fix

To address all issues (including breaking changes), run:
npm audit fix --force

Run npm audit for details.

D:\yarle-master>npm run build

[email protected] build
tsc --project ./src/tsconfig.json

D:\yarle-master>npm run start – --enexSource=evernote.enex --outputDir=./out --include-metadata --zettelkasten --plaintext-notes-only --outputFormat=ObsidianMD

[email protected] start
node --max-old-space-size=1024 ./dist/dropTheRope.js “–enexSource=evernote.enex” “–outputDir=./out” “–include-metadata” “–zettelkasten” “–plaintext-notes-only” “–outputFormat=ObsidianMD”

D:\yarle-master\node_modules\bindings\bindings.js:135
throw err;
^

Error: Could not locate the bindings file. Tried:
→ D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\build\node_expat.node
→ D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\build\Debug\node_expat.node
→ D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\build\Release\node_expat.node
→ D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\out\Debug\node_expat.node
→ D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\Debug\node_expat.node
→ D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\out\Release\node_expat.node
→ D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\Release\node_expat.node
→ D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\build\default\node_expat.node
→ D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\compiled\15.0.1\win32\x64\node_expat.node
→ D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\addon-build\release\install-root\node_expat.node
→ D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\addon-build\debug\install-root\node_expat.node
→ D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\addon-build\default\install-root\node_expat.node
→ D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\lib\binding\node-v88-win32-x64\node_expat.node
at bindings (D:\yarle-master\node_modules\bindings\bindings.js:126:9)
at Object. (D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\lib\node-expat.js:4:32)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1083:30)
at Object.Module._extensions…js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1112:10)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:948:32)
at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:789:14)
at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:972:19)
at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:88:18)
at Object. (D:\yarle-master\node_modules\xml-stream\lib\xml-stream.js:2:22)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1083:30) {
tries: [
‘D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\build\node_expat.node’,
‘D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\build\Debug\node_expat.node’,
‘D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\build\Release\node_expat.node’,
‘D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\out\Debug\node_expat.node’,
‘D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\Debug\node_expat.node’,
‘D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\out\Release\node_expat.node’,
‘D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\Release\node_expat.node’,
‘D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\build\default\node_expat.node’,
‘D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\compiled\15.0.1\win32\x64\node_expat.node’,
‘D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\addon-build\release\install-root\node_expat.node’,
‘D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\addon-build\debug\install-root\node_expat.node’,
‘D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\addon-build\default\install-root\node_expat.node’,
‘D:\yarle-master\node_modules\node-expat\lib\binding\node-v88-win32-x64\node_expat.node’
]
}
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path D:\yarle-master
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /d /s /c “node --max-old-space-size=1024 ./dist/dropTheRope.js “–enexSource=evernote.enex” “–outputDir=./out” “–include-metadata” “–zettelkasten” “–plaintext-notes-only” “–outputFormat=ObsidianMD””

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\ergol\AppData\Local\npm-cache_logs\2020-10-30T00_01_36_104Z-debug.log

D:\yarle-master>npm run start – --enexSource=GeneralNotes.enex --outputDir=./out --include-metadata --zettelkasten --plaintext-notes-only --outputFormat=ObsidianMDnpm run start – --enexSource=GeneralNotes.enex --outputDir=./out --include-metadata --zettelkasten --plaintext-notes-only --outputFormat=ObsidianMD

[mlemaire]

Hi - I have the same problem on Mac (OS 10.15.6; Node.js 14.15; Xcode 12.1).

I could share the debug file if helpful.

Thanks
M

[akos0215]

@smiling_lion

Error: Could not locate the bindings file. Tried:

Hi!

According to this article: javascript - When I require('node-expat'), throw Error: Could not locate the bindings file - Stack Overflow
It looks like that there was some problem occurred during the installation of node-expat.
As it is suggested in this link, please remove node_modules folder and install the dependencies again by npm i

[akos0215]

@smiling_lion, @mlemaire together with @matti we improved Yarle in aspect of installation and setup and released a new version 3.1.1 . No install needed anymore, you can give it a try! And any feedbacks are welcome!

[claven]

What magic is this?

Notes processed: 358
Conversion finished: 358 succeeded, 0 skipped, 0 failed. Total notes: 358

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

[akos0215]

I’m glad you find it cool!

[hskiba]

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]

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]

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

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]

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

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

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]

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

[dsteinbock]

Awesome, thank you!

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

[fdbesanto]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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