Problems with import from Evernote

I’ve decided to import all my notes from Evernote to Devonthink Office Pro using the Devonthink Evernote import menu item.

I’ve found that many of the notes are imported in a garbled state and are unreadable or there’s simply information that’s not on the imported document. You can see an example in the attachments.

Some of the documents instead of looking like the web page that was clipped to Evernote are nothing more that a single column of hundreds of letters.

Is there any solution for this problem?

Thanks,
Martin


It turns out that you can’t see the entire screen shots I posted. Sorry. But the fact is that in Devonthink there’s not information on the page and in Evernote there’s lots of information.

Thanks,
Martin

Does it work after exporting the notes as an .enex file and importing this file into DEVONthink?

I just tried that, Christian and unfortunately it was just as garbled.

Martin

Could you please send the exported .enex file to cgrunenberg - at - devon-technologies.com so that I could try to reproduce this? Thanks!

Just sent it a moment ago. Thanks for taking a look.

Martin

Thanks for the file! The HTML code exported by Evernote (e.g. in .enex files but also via File > Import > Evernote Notebooks…) is imported by DEVONthink almost unmodified.

I imported the .enex file to DEVONthink and the result was awful. Then I imported the .enex file to Evernote and exported the note as HTML and the result is more or less the same.

It’s unfortunately up to Evernote’s developers to provide a much better export of their notes but the lack of a useful export is probably intentional.

Thank you very much for taking the time to look at this closely, Christian.

So I guess the bottom line is that there’s not much that can be done to correct this problem. The interesting thing is that some of the imported files do just fine.

I’ll have to decide what I want to do. There are a lot of files that I really don’t need anymore and can simply discard.

For other web pages, I guess I can just import the url from the web into DT. This is something that I don’t have to do all at once and can be an ongoing project from time to time.

Thanks again,
Martin

Notes created in Evernote should import fine but in case of web clippings the mileage might vary.