Evernote to org-mode

evernote-to-org-mode.org

Export from evernote

You’ll have to open up the evernote application on either Mac or Windows (they don’t have a linux client), right click on the notebook you want to export, and select “Export.” Select the option to export to html (either one page or several pages, depending on your preference. I went with one html page for each note).

Clean filenames

Remove spaces from filenames:

for f in *\ *
do
    mv "$f" "${f// /-}"
done

Remove & symbols:

for file in *; do mv "$file" `echo $file | tr '&' 'and'` ; done

Convert to org

You’ll need to have the excellent pandoc utility installed.

for f in *.html 
do
    pandoc  ${f} -f html -t org -o ${f}.org  
done

Now we rename all the .html.org files to just .org:

for file in *.html.org
do
    mv "$file" "${file%%.html.org}.org"
done

To get rid of all the HTML tags:

perl -i -p0e 's/#\+BEGIN\_HTML.*?#\+END\_HTML/ /sg' *.org

And finally, remove all the html files:

rm -f *.html