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How did you handle importing binary data you had in Evernote into org-mode? I've got a bunch of PDFs, images and other non-text data in my Evernote workbooks th
by rys 11y ago
How did you handle importing binary data you had in Evernote into org-mode? I've got a bunch of PDFs, images and other non-text data in my Evernote workbooks that I'd need to take care of.
- preek 11y agoThis is a very good question! When you come up with a great answer, shoot me a mail! I actually moved everything that is important for the very long time by hand and started creating everything that's new in org-mode. So, yeah, there's still thousands of notes in Evernote and sometime I get back to them, but those times will become fewer and fewer in time. I'd pay for a tool that converts the EN XML to a proper org-mode file. Even better if I could do that on a regular basis, because EN still rocks most for capturing paper into an OCR'ed PDF.
- MarcScott 11y agoI used to keep lots of stuff in Evernote, and when I switched to org-mode, I did an HTML export from Evernote and then wrote an awful Python script to convert the HTML to org-mode. I'm pretty sure all the binary data appears as links in the exported html.
- preek 11y agoWould you be so kind as to share this Python script? I'd be happy to give it a shot^^
- MarcScott 11y agoSorry, not got it any more. It was a one-time use thing as once I was done with Evernote, I was done for good. It was pretty specific to my use case anyway - as most of the content was tabulated student data.
- preek 11y agoVery well, then. Thanks for taking the time to respond anyway and for making thoughtful comments on your use case of org-mode, I appreciate your comments a lot!
- shoover 11y agoTry pandoc -f html -t org-mode.
- groks 11y agoorg-mode has the concept of attachments which you can use for pdfs, images etc. http://orgmode.org/manual/Attachments.html http://orgmode.org/manual/Attachments.html