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[akosbalasko]

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[gitophile]

Great work. Want to be able to keep up with changes it looks like are made regularly. So.... Pardon my noobie q but is it best to clone and manually do this or some other way better. Plan to do a custom template too.

Thanks Greg

[akosbalasko]

Hi @gitophile !
Thank you!
Please raise your ideas in the Issues tab just to avoid double-work and there we can agree on who can or feel willing to implement that. If you would like to do it, then yes, the common way is to clone the repo and submit a PR on your implementation.

[jalurgemilang]

I am contemplating moving out of Evernote into Obsidian. Your tool is a savior to me because you saved the Created Date and Modified Date into the Windows Explorer file itself, so all my notes are not shown will today's date in Windows Explorer. I don't think there's any other conversion tool that has done this.

However, I notice that the filename does have 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. How can I make Yarle export without the timestamp in the file name?

[akosbalasko]

Hi @jalurgemilang !
I'm glad you like the tool! :)
The timestamp in the filename is the Zettekasten Id, if you would like to do not generate them, please set 'isZettelkastenNeeded' to false ( meaning that untick its checkbox in the config page)

cheers,
akos

[jalurgemilang]

Thank you. That must be something I missed that setting out. I appreciate you taking the time to respond.

Another feedback, I notice that some of my notes created date and modified date is not being exported out consistently. I am referring to the Properties of the file, not the content inside the markdown. This is using Windows OS.
I have to use Yarle in MacOS on the same Evernote notebook did not observe the inconsistency. I wonder if it was a bug with Windows. Thank you.

[eitang]

Looking to run away form Evernote into Obsidian... 🏃🏽‍♂️
This tool is the closet I've found to get something useful, thank you so much for building and supporting it! 🙏🏼
However the highlighting export doesn't seem to work.
I read that it's supported and even saw it in the outputFormat configuration.

However the highlighting doesn't come out on the .md file, tested this across multiple notes.
See an examples below 👇🏼

ENEX file formatting
<div><b><span style="--en-highlight:red;background-color: #fec1d0;">My ego demands—for myself—the success of my team. —BILL RUSSELL</span></b></div>

MD file output

**My ego demands—for myself—the success of my team. —BILL RUSSELL**

Used yarle-evernote-to-md.4.0.9.Setup.exe

GitHub doesn't let me to upload .enex files, so I'm attaching my original file ZIPed in case you want to see it.

Kindle highlights from The Captain Class A New Theory of Leadership.enex.zip

Thanks again for creating this!

[akosbalasko]

Hi @eitang !

I'm glad you like it! :)

Thank you for raising this up, it looks like that the enex note specifies highlights differently than yarle tries to identify it:

• in Yarle a highlight is a span element with a argument named '-evernote-highlight=true'
• in your enex file it is a span with an argument named 'en-highlight' .
  therefore Yarle cannot identify the highlights.

In your enex file i can see that it is exported via EN v10.
Currently EN 7xx is supported only, EN 10 is still not, because it is a huge improvement as the data structure of the enex file in EN 10 has changed significantly. But it's on the roadmap definitely.
So, could you please use the legacy Evernote (7xx) to export your notes? It allows you btw to export everything without limitation of the amount of the noted including large ones as well.

Please feel free to contact if you still face issues in the tool.

Thank you!

[eitang]

Thanks for the quick reply!

Tried using Evernote's legacy version 7.14 on Mac and 6.25 on Windows, the highlighting export still doesn't work :-(

Attaching the enex export files here just in case they're helpful.
I might run a find replace on all of the highlights and see if it works.
Can you pls send me a full example of what a highlight that Yarle recognizes looks like?

If it works, I'll share my findings :-)

Archive.zip

Thanks! 🙏🏼

[akosbalasko]

Hi @eitang ,
ohh, okay I'm sorry for hearing this. Let me investigate it further and provide a fix within a couple of days.

I'll keep you posted.

Thanks for reporting this!

[yukonquest]

Good Day! I am a brand new Obsidian User, I found YARLE in the Obsidian Forums. I used the desktop Windows version, I have Windows 8.1. All is working well, thank you so much for putting this together.

1. My Evernote export has 25 enex files (I have a lot of notes, 12 years worth). Each enex file takes 4-6 hours to complete. I will be at this for days. Is there a way to pickup all the enex files in succession to avoid having to do them individually?
2. The instructions state that after the conversion, to simply “drag” the converted files into Obsidian. The structure that has been created is: /notes//Evernote [2] (where the converted notes are) & /notes/Evernote [2]//_resources (where the attachments are). I tried dragging in ‘all’ the files under Evernote [2], without success. Can you elaborate on how to complete the import process?

Thank you in advance for you assistance. Once I get this all working, this will be a huge timesaver for me (even if it takes days).
On Obsidian Forum: yukonquestm@gmail.com
Michael

[akosbalasko]

Hi @yukonquest !

To answer your questions, nope, currently Yarle has no parallelization implemented unfortunately, the enex files are converted one by one. But it sounds like a great improvement for the future, so I add it as a feature request on the issues page. Thank you!

On the second I just wanted to express that just simply move the converted MD files into the folder of the Obsidian vault you use. It can be done in the file system by hitting F6 in Midnight commander or typing mv in terminal, and let Obsidian rebuild the index during its start-time.

Welcome to Obsidian, have a wonderful time here!