Dale's tools to translate Evernote's HTML exports to Markdown.

To run evernote2markdown:

1. Install pandoc
2. Export from Evernote as individual HTML files.
3. Put the exported HTML files into ./from-evernote/
4. run evernote2markdown.rb

Result:

• Markdown files in ./markdown/
• Intermediate HTML files in ./intermediate/, in case you want to see what the 'patch-html' step did.
• Original files unchanged in ./from-evernote/

The steps evernote2markdown takes:

1. Copy HTML files from ./from-evernote/ to ./intermediate/
2. Clean up the intermediate HTML files using sed with the patch-html script.
3. Run pandoc to convert the intermediate HTML files to markdown, and place the results in ./markdown/
4. Clean up the markdown files using sed with the patch-markdown script.
5. Collapse sequences of blank lines into single blank lines using sed with the collapse-blank-lines script.

Caveats and Assumptions

• evernote2markdown does nothing with any 'resources' (e.g. photos, pdf, rtf files, or other attachments) in your Evernote exports. You will have to handle those yourself.
• I have only ever run evernote2markdown in this environment:
  • Exports from evernote in mid-October, 2014.
  • Mac OS X Yosemite. Perhaps my sed scripts are pecular to OS X. Dunno.
  • Ruby version 2.0.0p481.
  • pandoc version 1.13.1
• I made no attempt to optimize for runtime. It translated my 400-note exports in 10 seconds or so, and that was fast enough for me.
• I was re-learning sed as I wrote this. The sed scripts are surely not exemplary.
• Use evernote2markdown at your own risk. I offer no support whatsoever.
• My notes were reasonably simple. I offer no guarantee that evernote2markdown will work for your files.