How to move your notes out of Evernote

When it launched in 2008, Evernote became the place for many people to take notes, track documents, organize projects, and generally keep anything you want to find later. However, over the years, Evernote’s reputation has suffered due to an overloaded interface, privacy flaws, inflated fees, and more. performance issues,

And as if that weren’t enough, last year, the app was acquired by app developer Bending Spoons, and that company recently announced it was laying off most of its US employees and moving Evernote’s operations to Europe. is transferring.

When an app is relied upon by a large number of people – especially one that has been around long enough to store a lot of data on its many users – and major changes are made, the first thought that many people Will be in mind: what will happen to my data?

While it’s generally not a good idea to panic, it never hurts to back up your data in case you decide it’s time to bail. If you’re switching to another app, it may be easier than you think – many similar apps, such as perception, joplinAnd zoho notebook, Provide ways to import Evernote files directly. But even if you don’t plan to switch, it’s a good idea to know how to export your data, just in case you have an independent backup of your stuff just in case.

Note: You can only export data using the Evernote Native app for PC or Mac; You cannot do this from the web or mobile version.

Evernote divides its notes into separate notebooks. If you just want to export your notes without reference to which notebook they’re in, you can do that — but in current versions of Evernote (version 10 and up), you can only export 100 at a time. Are. (You can find out which version you have by Evernote > About Evernote and looking at the top line of text below the pop-out box.)

There is a solution to this 100-note limit, which we’ll get to in a minute. But in the meantime, if you’re exporting from a current version of Evernote:

• choose notes.
• click on Edit > Select All, You will see that only 100 notes are selected.
• If you want to go ahead, go File > Export Notes…
• You will get a pop-up window. Choose the format in which you want to export your notebook: ENEX or HTML. If you choose HTML, you can export all the notes on a single webpage or split them into separate pages.
• You can also decide whether you want to omit any attributes of the notes, such as author (unnecessary if you’re the only one using the app), tags, location, etc. Just uncheck all the features you don’t need.
• click on export,

Keep in mind that if you export to HTML, you can easily read the files in a browser; In addition, some note-keeping apps will import HTML files. On the other hand, as noted above, some competing apps will automatically import Evernote’s ENEX format or guide you through the process—apparently, to encourage Evernote users to migrate.

Here’s the solution: You can export all your notes in one fell swoop using an older version of Evernote. legacy evernote Available for Mac and Windows PC internet archive, Once you have that version installed (and it can be installed alongside a more modern version):

• go for all notes,
• to click Edit > Select All,
• click on File > Export Notes…

After that, you will get the same pop-up as above; Just follow those instructions. And be prepared to wait – especially if you have a lot of notes, this will be no small export.

On the other hand, if you export notebook by notebook, you can export All Notes in each notebook and keep your notes organized (if you export all notes, you lose that organization). For example, I had a notebook that contained over 2,074 notes, and by exporting that notebook, I was able to export the notes in it without issue. So if you have a lot of notes that don’t belong in any notebook, but you don’t want to use any of the above solutions, another strategy is to create a notebook — called EverythingAlls, for example — and Carry all your lost notes in it to make it easy to export them.

Unfortunately, you can’t export all your notebooks at once – it has to be one at a time. But exporting seven dozen notebooks is much easier than trying to export several thousand 100 notes at a time or rearranging those several thousand notes. This way:

• In Evernote’s left-hand menu, where all your notebooks are listed, right-click the notebook you want to export.
• click on Export notebook…
• You will get a pop-up window where you select the format in which you want to export your notebook – ENEX or HTML. Again, if you choose HTML, you can export all the notes on a single webpage or split them into separate pages.
• If the notebook contains a large number of notes and you are exporting it to ENEX, you are given the opportunity to split the file into more manageable sizes – just click divide file size by box.
• Then, you can also decide whether you want to leave any features of Notes on or not.
• click on export,

Repeat for each notebook.

Fortunately, exporting Evernote notebooks doesn’t take long, but if you have a lot of notebooks, be prepared to spend some time with this task.

UPDATE July 10, 2023, 2:05 PM ET: This article was originally published on March 14, 2019, and has been updated to account for changes to Evernote’s export features and Evernote’s company status.