dragon1672 / go-keep-export-to-text

Massage Google Keep Export to text files

Keep Export To Text

My hacky slappy exporting google keep data from https://takeout.google.com (which has some nice json data)

Export / Importing Options

Google Keep to Text Files

Each google keep note will be converted into a txt file.

Note this will not include things like images / colors / sharing / etc

Note about Google Keep note exports

• FileNames (depends on --output_file_name_strat)
  • The filename in the zip file will prefer the note title but parsed to be URL safe and handle collisions
    • If there is no file name it appears to take on a timestamp based on the last edit time
  • --output_file_name_strat=direct_export: will output the file name directly as above
  • --output_file_name_strat=favor_date: will attempt to output the file according to it's date YYYY-MM-DD
    • if there are collisions, the following files will YYYY-MM-DD_${filename}
• List entries do not include information about nesting
  • In google keep a checklist can have 1 level of nesting, but this data doesn't appear to be reflected in the output json. It might exist in the HTML, but I haven't bothered digging that deep.

Text Formatting

Note the format of the text file is an unstable thing to rely on, I would recommend forking this repo to make formatting modifications, so you are working with the structured JSON data.

• The filename will reflect the same name as the takeout export filename
• File Contents will include
  • The title
  • optionally create date
  • optionally last edit date
  • The file contents
  • list contents
    • prefixed with a [ ] or [X] marking if they are complete or not
  • labels converted to # tags

Tip: You can do some filtering if you have grepable entries like labels

$ mkdir ma-cool-label
$ grep "#ma-cool-label" -rl . | xargs -I % cp "%" ma-cool-label/

Google Keep to Markdown

Similar to text files but markdown, This can be referenced by markdown readers like https://obsidian.md/

Google Keep to Evernote

It has been a while, but I used the windows desktop client to import them in bulk.

1. Export text files as mentioned above

2. Use client for bulk import

   eg: https://discussion.evernote.com/forums/topic/31369-archived-how-could-i-import-a-folder-with-huge-number-txt-files-and-make-the-txt-file-name-as-the-note-title/

Google Keep to Dynalist

This program can output an opml file that can be imported into dynalist

On the upper left of the web UI: ompls files can be imported

This will create a new note will all the imported data.

Dynalist formatting

• Each entry will be imported according to it's name
  • Creation date and tags are added as a note is added as a note to the name
• list documents are represented with each entry and will be marked as complete or not
• text entries will be placed as note on a dummy entry
  • The note section handles multi-line and paragraph text much better than bulleted entries.
  • The FR for collapsable note sections is still being discussed So this uses a dummy entry --- to have a collapsable note section

Tip: once imported, use the search features like Since:2020 Until:2021 to isolate date ranges and the move feature to organize these entries into different notes or into hierarchies

Tip: sort entries by date

Getting google keep data

1. go to https://takeout.google.com
2. deselect all projects and select only google keep
3. Wait for email to get a link to download zip
4. Use this code and reference the zipfile
   • Optionally rename the zip to takeout-example.zip and not have to tinker with any CLI flags
5. Do cool things with exported data