Evernote Import - issue with link

[foxmask]

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After having imported my notes, the link are not well named.

Instead of having the original content of the anchor, we a link named "link"

[laurent22]

It normally does that for empty links. Again if you have an example ENEX please post it here.

[foxmask]

to avoid to flood the issue I pasted one note here https://gist.github.com/foxmask/35e0c4bdebdafdfed5d7774b1c8bef95

[petrz12]

Hi,
I can confirm that. It happens when the href and description are the same, when ENEX file contains e.g.: <a href="http://www.w3c.org">http://www.w3c.org</a>.

I tracked the problem to this line:

joplin/ReactNativeClient/lib/import-enex-md-gen.js

Line 560 in 72fd778

} else if (!previous || previous == url) {

Removing the part || previous == url should solve the problem.

Hope this helps.

[laurent22]

I've improved this on the Markdown side, but the rendered HTML will always display "(Link)" I'm afraid for URLs on their own, due to this: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/master/ReactNativeClient/lib/MdToHtml.js#L340

[foxmask]

It's not a big deal. Thank you

[petrz12]

Hi,
I just tried your latest fixes (commit 28dce0f) and I believe the link import or/and Markdown rendering is still not optimal yet. Since I use plain URLs almost exclusively in Evernote I started to investigate a bit. (Btw, what you have achieved with Joplin so far is an excellent job!)

Here is my Evernote x Joplin import comparison screenshot, I use ElectronClient on Mac:

Having (Link) instead of the real URL after import is very annoying here. Surprisingly, some text that is not supposed to be a link is rendered as link. That may suggest, that there is a problem with Markdown rendering.

Testing it further here on GitHub with handcrafted Markdown test:

---

Link Tests:

Links:

• www.google.com
• http://www.google.com
• www.apple.com
• http://www.apple.com

Not links:

• some.test
• some.text.com
• filename
• filename.link.is

Links:

• http://www.w3c.org
• http://www.google.com
• http://www.amazon.com

---

And comparing the same with Joplin Markdown rendering:

Reveals differences between URL starting with "www" and with "http://" where the latter is rendered as "(Link)". Also e.g. "some.text.com" is rendered as a link even it should not be.

I would prefer if we can get close to GitHub Markup rendering since it is much more consistent and intuitive.

What do you think?

Thank you

[bayang]

this is very annoying for me as my daily use case is to consult list of plain links like this :

• <www.myfirstlink.com>
• <www.secondlink.com>

which displayed nice before as underlined 'www.secondlink.com' so at first glance I could see where I was clicking, now I see tens of '(Link)' and I need to always be in dual pane view

[laurent22]

Right, when used to store many urls like this, the (Link) thing is not a good idea. I'm going to change it back to display regular URLs.

[bayang]

Thanks Laurent I appreciate that.

[petrz12]

Laurent, it works for me as well. Many thanks!