If we are thinking about taking our notes out of Evernote and taking them somewhere else, it is not as complicated as it might seem. We can export them without any problem and in this article we will see it in detail so that there is no doubt..
Launched in 2008, Evernote quickly became one of millions of people's favorite applications for quick and easy note taking. Managing to organize your documents, projects and, in general, have a corner where we can put anything we want to find. Likewise, if we have too many files or notes on our mobile, we always recommend organizing the files on our smartphone.
However, little by little Evernote's reputation was affected due to suffering from an interface that has not aged well at all and has not had a good facelift, bugs that affect privacy, increasingly high rates and performance. quite low..
And now that it has been acquired by app developer Bendings Spoons, another drawback arises for many. Like any other application, millions of people use it and over the years a huge amount of data accumulates in it. When this happens, the first thing that comes to mind is something very simple: What will happen to my data?
It's not that we have to panic, we shouldn't be alarmed. However, it is not a bad idea to make a backup copy of our data, the reasons that lead us to this may be too many, including going to another application.
If we think about moving to another application, we find good tools like Notion or Zoho Notebook, which have created ways to import Evernote files directly. But even if we don't want to change apps, the ideal would be to always have an updated backup of our content..
How to get or export my notes from Evernote
Evernote takes care of dividing notes into separate notebooks. This is useful because it helps us keep everything organized; although it means that we will have to export each of the notebooks separately.
Although there is a kind of alternative. If we only want to export our notes without referring to the notebook in which they are located, we can do so; although we can only export 50 notes at a time. For this we are going to go to Notes and then click on Edit > Select all.
If we want to export a single notebook, we can export all the notes it contains, we have exported more than 1000 notes from a notebook without problems. The only drawback is that we will not be able to export all the notebooks at the same time.
As for formats, we have two options: HTML or EXE from Evernote. If we want to export it in HTML, we can find many applications that will read it easily, even any browser can open an HTML file in a simple and clear way.
On the other hand, many alternative applications to Evernote, such as Notion, OneNote or Zoho Notebook, will automatically import the ENEX format from Evernote or help us change its format.
Back up my data to Evernote
The only way to get our notes from Evernote is from a PC or Mac; You cannot do this from mobile devices or from the web.
- We click on the left menu of Evernote, where we see all the notebooks, then we right click on the notebook we want to export.
- Here we are going to click on Export notebook…
- A new window will appear. We are going to choose the format in which we want to export this: ENEX or HTML, we already discussed the differences a little above.
- If we have a notebook that has too many notes and we are exporting it in ENEX we have the possibility of dividing the file into smaller sizes, all we will have to do is click on Divide file size by.
- We can also omit some of the attributes of the notes, such as the author (if we are the only one using the app it is unnecessary), tags, location, etc. We will only have to uncheck these attributes.
- Finally we click on Export.
We will have to repeat this process for each notebook that we want to export. Luckily, it is a process that does not take too long. The only way it will take time to do it is if we have a considerable amount of notes.