jampo / trombone

Converts Tomboy notes files to an Evernote export archive

This is a quick script to convert notes from Tomboy to Evernote.

This project was dervied from @scribu's work (cited below), but this one makes a best-effort pass to convert Tomboy markup to standard HTML compatible with Evernote's ENML, whereas @scribu's would drop most formatting markup.

Usage

Whereas @scribu's required external dependencies, this one relies on standard Python modules:

• xml.dom.minidom
• re
• datetime

This one also requires you to select which Tomboy notes you want to export, and writes them all to standard output.

# Export **all** Tomboy notes in your home directory
find $HOME -type f -name '*.note' -print0 | xargs -0 trombone > EXPORT.enex

Note that on Mac OS X, Tomboy's notes are stored in:

• $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Tomboy/

On Linux, it's usually

• $HOME/.local/share/tomboy/

Limitations

• None! (that I know of)

Resources

• https://gist.github.com/scribu/7442170 (Thanks @scribu)
• https://gist.github.com/chrishan/3186646 (Thanks @chrishan)
• https://blog.evernote.com/tech/2013/08/08/evernote-export-format-enex/
• http://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/enml.php
• https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Tomboy/NoteXmlFormat