evernote2zim

Convert Evernote export to zim-wiki syntax

This is achieved by:

1. Export your evernote docs to html and save to a folder (<HTML_DIR>).
2. Convert html to markdown by using the html2text module.
3. Convert markdown to zim-wiki syntax using the markdown2zim module, and save to a given folder <ZIM_DIR>.
4. Copy over attched images to <ZIM_DIR>.
5. In zim desktop, create a new notebook, this will create a new folder in your drive. Close the new notebook and go into that folder, and copy over the stuff (.txt files and attachment folders) to this new folder.
6. Open the new notebook again to see the final result.

Steps 2-4 are done by this script. Other step should be done by the user.

Usage

python evernote2zim.py HTML_DIR ZIM_DIR

Some tips:

• After creating the new notebook, you can let it stay open, and copy over the docs, then use Tools -> Update index to let it refresh.

• Sometimes after the above the HOME page is gone, try restarting zim.

• When exporting your docs from Evernote, right click a notebook to export the entire notebook.

• These symbols are not allowed in zim's note title:

  #, *, _, \, |, /, <, >, ?, ", %
  

  I changed "%" to "percent", and all others are simply deleted. So be aware that your title might be different from in Evernote.

• Still rather early stage so probably a bit buggy. Let me know if you encounter one.

• Also, don't use zim-wiki 0.66. It's buggy as hell. Fall back to 0.65 until they fix things up. Spell checking in 0.67 also doesn't work for me.

Dependencies

• Python: only tested python2.

Related projects

• zim-wiki
• markdown2zim, which is modified from python-markdown2.
• html2text.