To do this, you’ll need a little command line know-how and a utility called ever2simple. If you only use Evernote to store boring old text files, you can output those as Markdown-formatted plain text files. If you want to use OneNote, you can use a tool like VirtualBox and a trial version of Windows to run Windows on your Mac for long enough to import your files, or you can skip below to the IFTTT method for a hacky way to force all your notes over. Right now, Mac users are out of luck for an automated tool. Everything should import over, including tags, attachments and formatting.

That’s it, the importer tool migrates all your notebooks over to OneNote for you. Click the checkboxes next to all the notebooks you want to import and click Next. The importer tool will scan your hard drive for Evernote notes and display the notebooks it finds. If you haven’t used it before, open up the Evernote app on Windows and let it download all your notes.

Good news for Windows users too: You can import your Evernote notebooks with Microsoft’s importer tool:ĭownload the Evernote Windows application and Microsoft’s importer tool. You can do a ton with OneNote and it can handle just about everything Evernote can. OneNote is the closest cross-platform competitor to Evernote.

How to Move Everything to Microsoft OneNote This will export every note you have into a single file. Right-click a note and select “Export Notes”. If you don’t care about bringing the notebook structure, you can just dump every note into a single file: If you have a lot of notes, this is a pretty tedious process, but it’s the only way to get all your notes over to a new app with any sense of organisation. Repeat this for every notebook in your account. ENEX is best for the import options we’ll look at below. Right-click a notebook and select “Export Notes”.Ĭhoose the Evernote ENEX format to export everything as an organised file or HTML to export it as a set of web pages.

With the exception of moving your data over to OneNote, the first thing you need to do is export your notes out of Evernote before you can import them into the new notes app of your choice:ĭownload the Evernote app for Windows or Mac and log into your account. Evernote has a handy export option built into its Windows and Mac apps (it’s not available on their web app).

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