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In Jan 2021 I moved around 29k notes from Evernote to markdown. These are the scripts I used to clean-up, validate, maintain the markdown notes.

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Background

In Q4 2020 Evernote released version 10 of their client. To my dismay, this version wasn't sufficiently performant with as many notes as I had (Evernote probably decided to target a faster-growing segment of users with fewer notes). Also the client came with limitations on how many notes one could export at one time.

Luckily, Evernote still supported a legacy client, from which I could bulk-export all 28k notes. Using Bear on OSX, I could then import the Evernote export, and export all the notes in markdown.

Migration cleanup scripts

The resulting markdown (+ assets) notes have some problems:

  • notes with the same title have their assets in the same directory
  • note file names contain all kind of automation-unfriendly special characters (emojis, ideographic etc.)
  • some assets are linked using html instead of markdown

these scripts help in resolving these problems.

Workflow scripts

A "plain" markdown solution makes it possible to automate many workflows - this repo contains (or will contain) scripts for these workflows.

For example:

  • finding keywords and extracting text "around" their occurrences
  • NLP workflows e.g. automatic summarisation, automatic duplicates finding, automatic tagging
  • finding spelling mistakes across all notes
  • finding deletable content across all notes (e.g. social media sharing headers, chumbox links etc.)
  • scripts to (bulk) change/restore the creation/update date/time of the notes

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In Jan 2021 I moved around 29k notes from Evernote to markdown. These are the scripts I used to clean-up, validate, maintain the markdown notes.

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