Importing from latest version of Evernote

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Hello everyone,

Brand new user here (DEVONthink Pro Office), and I’m trying to move all my notes in Evernote to DEVONthink. (Which is to say, I don’t want to have to depend on Evernote at all, after I’ve imported the notes to DEVONthink.)

I have about 60,000 notes in Evernote, split between Business and Personal accounts.
Version number for Evernote is Version 6.12 Beta 2 (455250 Direct)

I find that I can drag and drop a single note from Evernote to the Inbox on DEVONthink and the full text of the note is created and stored in DEVONthink Pro. But I have not been able to either:
++ drag and drop selection of multiple notes, or
++ use the very nice DEVONthink interface to select one or more notebooks within Evernote without either

Crashing Evernote, or getting nothing in DEVONthink but a bunch of URLS that point back to Evernote (no text from the note itself at all).

I suppose it’s possible that the Beta 2 version of 6.12 has broken something, but I thought I’d check to see if I’m just missing something obvious.

Thanks in advance.

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Working with beta software can definitely cause problems. Also, Evernote’s AppleScript capabilities are a very limited thing. I do not suggest trying to import all 60,00 notes (in case you were so inclined). Note you can also try to export out of Evernote then import them after the fact.

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Exporting multiple notes as an ENEX file and importing it into DEVONthink retains the metadata (just like File > Import > Notes from Evernote…)

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There’s a bug in that beta of Evernote’s Applescript support. I had to downgrade Evernote to get importing to DTPO to work.

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Thanks, mpmanti! That helps.

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You’re welcome!