Package: ever2simple
IntroductionEvernoteandSimplenoteare two online based note taking apps. Evernote
focuses more on giving the end user rich text and the ability to upload
voice clips and images for OCR. Simplenote on the other hand, as seen by
its name, is a much simpler approach. It just stores your plain text
notes, and that is it.This package installs a script to help you migrate from Evernote into
Simplenote by exporting the notes as files. The script
will take an Evernoteenexexport and turn it into ajson,csvor
directory of*.txtfiles.The html that is provided by Evernote is processed by thehtml2textlibrary. This transforms the html intoMarkdown. The Simplenote web UI
supports previewing notes in Markdown, so this works out nicely.InstallationYou can easily install this package usingeasy_installorpipas
follows (preferably in a virtualenv):$ pip install -U ever2simpleDevelopment InstallationClone this repository withgit:$ git clone https://github...Enter the code directory:$ cd ever2simpleInstall live preserving local changes to the code:$ pip install -e .UsageOnce it is installed, you will have a new executable available to you.
Before you can run the conversion, you will need to export your notes.
This can be done from the desktop client. You can select the notes you
want to export, thenExport Notes toArchive..., and select theenexformat.Once you have that, you can run the script on the file setting the--outputto a directory and usingdiras the parameter to--format:$ ever2simple my_evernote.enex --output simplenote_dir --format dirThat will output each note in a*.txtfile named by a number to thesimplenote_dirdirectory (creating it if it doesn’t exist).You can now request Simplenote’s support to enable Dropbox synchronization
to your account here:https://simplenote.com/contact-us/Once they enable Dropbox synchronization for you, go tohttps://app.simplenote.com/settingsand configure it (in the last section).After that, copy your converted*.txtnote files to your Simplenote
directory inside your Dropbox and synchronize them fromhttps://app.simplenote.com/settings.If you want to export to CSV you can passcsvto the--formatparameter:$ ever2simple my_evernote.enex --output simplenote.csv --format csvIf you want to export to JSON you can passjsonto the--formatparameter (or just don’t use that parameter asjsonis the default):$ ever2simple my_evernote.enex --output simplenote.json --format jsonCommand Line HelpThe help given by runningever2simple-h:usage: ever2simple [-h] [-o OUTPUT] [-f {json,csv,dir}] enex-file

Convert Evernote.enex files to Markdown

positional arguments:
  enex-file             the path to the Evernote.enex file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        the path to the output file or directory, leave black
                        to output to the terminal (stdout) (default: None)
  -f {json,csv,dir}, --format {json,csv,dir}
                        the output format, json, csv or a directory (default:
                        json)Notes and CaveatsSimplenote no longer supports JSON and CSV imports, only text files via
Dropbox.Exporting to a directory will not preserve tags in the notes.This does not handle any attachments since simplenote doesn’t support
them. This script does not ignore the note that has attachments. This
may make for some strange notes being imported with little to no text.Evernote’s export looks like those horrific Microsoft Word html
exports. You may want to cleanse thecontentdata a bit before
running the script. This is left as an exercise for the user.The notes in Evernote randomly contain unicode characters that aren’t
really harmful to you today, but may bite you in the rear later. This
script just passes the buck, no extra cleansing of the text is done.
The oddest character is a unicode space, why on earth do we need
unicode spaces in our notes?1?!LinksPyPihttp://pypi.python.org/pypi/ever2simpleGithubhttp://github.com/claytron/ever2simpleBug Reportshttp://github.com/claytron/ever2simple/issuesTODOWrite some basic testsUnicode forDictWriterTest on Python 3Changes2.0 (2016-03-13)Update to output text files to a directory.
[tiangolo]Fixcreatedandupdateddate parsing.
[austinjp]1.1 (2015-03-25)Forgot to write change log entries.
[claytron]1.0 (2015-03-25)Fix issue with HTML2Text import.
[claytron]Fix issue withxmlSAX2Characters: huge text nodeerror.
[claytron]Bump version to avoid having to usepip install--pre.
[claytron]1.0a3 (2011-10-11)Pinpython-dateutilto less than 2.0 so that the Python 3
only version isn’t pulled down.
[claytron]1.0a1 (2011-06-14)Initial release