Move your Evernote notes
to Markdown
Add your Evernote export, pick the notebooks or notes, and download plain .md files that open in any editor: notebooks as folders, attachments alongside, and the details of each note in its header.
Your first 50 notes convert free · no credit card required
- Works with the .enex files Evernote exports
- Nothing in your Evernote account is touched
- Your export is deleted after 7 days
The this2that Evernote converter: your Evernote export on the left, with notebooks and notes to tick, and on the right a preview of the same note as it will look in Markdown.
Tick notebooks or single notes, preview them in Markdown, press Convert
What you get in Markdown
The download: Markdown files, zipped, with the steps for Markdown inside.
In the download
- Plain .md files that open in any editor
- Each notebook is a folder, with its attachments inside
- Tags, dates and source address in each file's header
- Works with Logseq, VS Code, Typora, Bear and more
Opening it in Markdown
- 1Unzip the download.
- 2Open the folder in your editor. Move a notebook folder as a whole so its images keep showing.
The parts that usually go wrong, done
Files that outlive any app
Plain text with a small header, so your notes open in any editor today and in whatever you use in ten years.
Attachments linked, not lost
Images and files keep their own names in an attachments folder inside each notebook, and each note links to its own with a relative path, so they show in editors that display images.
The details kept in the header
Title, created and updated dates, notebook, tags and the address of clipped pages sit in each file's frontmatter, ready for search or scripts.
Pick what to bring
Browse your notebooks and notes like folders. Bring everything, a few notebooks, or single notes, and leave the rest behind.
See it before you convert
Open any note and preview how it will look in Markdown, attachments and checklists included.
Rather do it yourself? Free converters exist, and for one notebook they can be enough. The usual gaps show up at scale: attachments that are saved but not linked from the note, and the source address of web clips dropped.
How it works
- 1
Export from Evernote
In the Evernote desktop app, export each notebook as an .enex file. Many notebooks, or on Linux? The free tool evernote-backup exports them all at once.
- 2
Add the files and pick
Add your .enex files, browse notebooks and notes like folders, and preview how a note will look in Markdown. Tick whole notebooks or single notes, then press Convert.
- 3
Download and open in Markdown
You get a zip with the import steps for Markdown inside. Unzip it and follow them.
The conversion runs in the cloud, so you can close the tab while it works. We cannot connect to your Evernote account: you add the files you exported, and nothing else is read.
First, get your notes out of Evernote
Evernote exports notes as .enex files, and only from its desktop app. Here is the route for each case.
With the desktop app
Evernote for Mac or Windows
- Open Evernote and let it finish syncing.
- In the sidebar, right-click a notebook and choose Export notebook.
- Pick ENEX as the format, keep tags and dates ticked, and save.
- Repeat for each notebook you want to bring.
Selecting notes by hand exports at most 100 at a time. Whole notebooks have no such limit, so export by notebook.
Many notebooks, or on Linux
evernote-backup, free and open source
A command-line tool for Mac, Windows and Linux that downloads your whole account and writes one .enex file per notebook. After installing it, run:
evernote-backup init-dbto sign inevernote-backup syncto downloadevernote-backup export notes/to write the files
It is not ours. Install steps are on its GitHub page.
Only on the web or your phone
Evernote Web and the phone apps
Neither can export. Install Evernote on a Mac or Windows computer, sign in, wait for your notes to sync, and export from there. No computer with either? evernote-backup signs in to your account itself and works on Linux too.
Step by step, with the details: how to export all your Evernote notes.
Pricing
Pay once. No subscription to cancel.
Your first 50 notes convert free. Then pick a pack by the number of notes you have. A note counts once: convert it for Obsidian today and for Markdown tomorrow, and it is paid for once.
Up to 1,000 notes
$29
one time
- •for Obsidian, Apple Notes, UpNote or Markdown
- •packs stack and never expire
- •a note counts once, for every app
Up to 10,000 notes
$49
one time
- •for Obsidian, Apple Notes, UpNote or Markdown
- •packs stack and never expire
- •a note counts once, for every app
Up to 50,000 notes
$99
one time
- •for Obsidian, Apple Notes, UpNote or Markdown
- •packs stack and never expire
- •a note counts once, for every app
- ✓ First 50 notes free, no card
- ✓ Preview any note before you convert
- ✓ Converting the same notes for another app is free
- ✓ Need more? Packs add up
Frequently asked questions
Moving to another app? Evernote to Obsidian · Evernote to Apple Notes · Evernote to UpNote
Ready to leave Evernote for Markdown?
Add your export and convert your first 50 notes free. No credit card, nothing changed in Evernote.