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Migrate from evernote to simplenote with markdown formatting

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Error on converting

kidata opened this issue · comments

When i try this with Python 2.7.2 on Windows 7 64bit with a fresh exported .enex file:

ever2simple Evernote.enex -o simplenote -f dir

i get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\tools\Python27\Scripts\ever2simple-script.py", line 9, in
load_entry_point('ever2simple==2.0', 'console_scripts', 'ever2simple')()
File "d:\tools\python27\lib\site-packages\ever2simple\core.py", line 21, in main
converter.convert()
File "d:\tools\python27\lib\site-packages\ever2simple\converter.py", line 80, in convert
notes = self.prepare_notes(xml_tree)
File "d:\tools\python27\lib\site-packages\ever2simple\converter.py", line 52, in prepare_notes
note_dict['createdate'] = created_string.strftime(self.date_fmt)
ValueError: Invalid format string

the format of the created-nodes is 20160324T131701Z in my enex file

Same error when trying to convert a recent exported file.

exact same for me, on python 2.7.6, win 7 64bit. I guess everyone is moving to simplenote after the announcement lol

hi, if you want to fix the date string error, just change line 16 in converter.py from
date_fmt = '%h %d %Y %H:%M:%S'
to
date_fmt = '%Y %m %d %H:%M:%S'

sorry still new to git and what the procedure is for submitting fixes

My date is also in this format: 20160629T084212Z. Maybe Evernote exports the date in different formats. Also not sure if this date is even kept anywhere in the text file, so I guess it really doesn't matter what the date is?

The problem is that %h is not a valid python strftime(); %bshould be used instead.
It works on unix boxes (Linux, Mac,...) because python passes the string to strftime() from the C library which supports %h as synonym for %b

Date actually matters if you want to keep your dates in Simplenote...

(Submitted Pull Request #10 with this small change)

@AmedeeBulle But the other fix suggested changes the order of the year and month. Does your solution fix this too?

Thanks

Yes it doesn't matter, it only affects how dates are printed, not read.

(Furthermore it is only used if you select JSON output format, and it that case a UNIX timestamp might be better, see my pull requests #11 and #12 )

Fantastic. Thank you!

My first usage yesterday was a complete success, thanks in particular to @hxnhng for the comment about the date_fmt.

Now......since I just converted a few hundred notes, if only there were a way to automate the tagging. I guess there's nothing in simplenote that allows this in the note or filename, etc., right? The reason I ask is that I was planning to export by tag in evernote, so at import time I would know the tag to use for each note.

Tags should not be an issue if you go through the JSON path...

What I was missing was the Notebooks as this does no exist in Simplenote. So I exported by notebook and uploaded in Simplenote adding a tag for each notebook.

Thanks, will try JSON for the next batch.

Hi,
@AmedeeBulle how do you import the json into the simplenote?

Thanks

Just using the Simplenote API -- wrote a small script which reads back the JSON file and uploads to Simplenote.

I did that because:

  • It works out of the box (no need to setup Dropbox synch or whatever)
  • it preserves tags
  • It preserves create/update dates

I can share the code if anybody is interested...

I can share the code if anybody is interested...

+1, thanks, your script (and ever2simple fork) worked perfectly for me.

I am too. Thanks!