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I do not think it could easily be done for multiple users. See the difference between a straightforward import with OneNote importer and one done after the editing I attempted to describe.

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In closing: if you are moving to OneNote, for any reason, experiment with one notebook - before embarking in the full conversion.

Select one of your datafiles, click Next and let the OneNote Importer do its job.

When you get to the page "Select Evernote Content", click on the link " Import a file instead" - See Figure 3.

Look at the second line - you should see the following:.

If you have no idea of what I am talking about, it does not matter.

I will spare you the gruesome details of the investigation, and come to the important point: it turns out that the structure of the XML data in the ENEX files does not always and/or necessarily abide to the "declarations" found in the "document type definition" specified in the file's header.

In few cases, for rather mysterious reasons, the note will not import at all. Interestingly enough, the OneNote importer is often able to CORRECT the error and import the note correctly. Who knows, I may have copied that title from a web page or from an email signature. In this particular case, the XML generated by Evernote breaks the entire file because of a non-breaking space in the title of the note. Some files will report errors and you will not be able to open them.But that does not necessarily mean that they will import without problems.

Using XML Notepad, open (or attempt to open) the ENEX file(s) you created when exporting your notebook(s).

I am not sure you'll be able to find it for download… but you will definitely find XML Notepad 2007 (still available on Microsoft site). Believe it not, my tool of choice is the ancient workhorse Microsoft XML Notepad (1998 - yes 1998).

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If you do not have a super-simple XML editor, get one and install it.

If you do not have a good text editor capable of handling large files (I assume some of your notebooks may produce large export files) get one and install it - there are several excellent freeware and/or opensource offerings (I happened to have become accustomed to Visual Studio Code).

This may be a pain - especially if you have a large number of notebooks. Do NOT export the entire database in one pass.

Before you install and run the OneNote importer, export your Evernote database to ENEX files.

I just finished porting over 31,000 notes and, at my last count, I have 41 notes that I have to manually fix. So here is a simple recipe to insure that conversion problems are kept at the very minimum. It turns out I was too fast in blaming the Microsoft product for the poor import.

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Then, because I am a (rather aging ) software developer by trade, I figured I should try and understand the problem (or problems).

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To the point where you may be tempted to give up, or where manual intervention is simply unfeasible. But if you happen to have an Evernote database with several thousand notes… or few tens of thousand notes… the percentage of import errors increases exponentially. If you have a relatively small number of notebooks and notes it is not particularly onerous to manually adjust (copy & paste) even a couple of dozen notes. In any case, a glitch here and there is probably to be expected. Oh, and keep in mind that I am not overly concerned with a bit of formatting issues.

On the other hand, many users (including yours truly) have encountered a number of problems: notes without a title or (oh the horror) notes without actual body. Myself, after careful consideration, I decided to move to OneNote.Īnd moving from Evernote to OneNote should be straightforward enough - after all, Microsoft offers a tool (OneNote Importer) just for this purpose. That is such a personal decision, and I am sure everyone has personally valid motives. I am not here to discuss why or why not one should move from Evernote to another application or service.