Migrate from Keep It to DEVONthink

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Hi all,

I’m a new DEVONthink user.

I moved from Evernote to “Keep It” on the Mac a few years ago. I have outgrown it, and am moving to DEVONthink.

I would like to bring over all my Keep It notes/items to DEVONthink. (Ideally via a tool like the existing File > Import > Notes from Evernote, or File > Import > Items from Yojimbo functions.)

I can Export All Files from Keep It, and there are options to export the metadata as JSON, Property List, or Plain Text.

I’ve done some test export/imports, and the biggest issue is the URL field. I have RTF Keep It notes which were “web clipped”, and show the original URL from where they were clipped. Bringing those into DEVONthink populates the URL field with a “/var/folders/hq/XXXXXXXXXXX/T/Evernote/XXXXXXX.html” URL, although the actual site URL is linked in the body text.

Has anyone had any success with exporting from Keep It to DEVONthink?

Thanks!

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Keep It stores all its documents on iCloud Drive, I actually index some Keep It folders into a DEVONthink database. It would be a simple matter to do same and then move the folders into your DEVONthink database.

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One thing I forgot to mention, if you have taken notes in Keep It’s proprietary .kptnote format, you will first need to export them to a text format that is compatible with DEVONthink. I could be mistaken, but I don’t think any other apps support the .kptnote format.