Import notes from Evernote

Grape reads the .enex files Evernote exports, so your notebooks come across with their attachments, checklists and tags rather than as plain text. Importing works on desktop and on mobile, and it is part of the Sync, Plus, Pro and Lifetime plans.

Export your notebooks from Evernote

Evernote only exports from its desktop app on a Mac or a Windows computer. Its website and its phone apps cannot export, so this part happens on a computer even if you will import on your phone.

In Evernote, open Notebooks, click the three dots beside a notebook and choose Export Notebook, then pick ENEX as the format. If Evernote asks which details to include, keep tags and dates. Each notebook becomes one .enex file named after it. Do this for every notebook you want to bring across, and keep the files together in one folder.

You can also select up to 100 notes and export them, but whole notebooks keep the folders you had.

Import on desktop

Open Settings, go to the Data tab and choose Evernote from the Import menu. Select every .enex file you exported; Cmd A on Mac or Ctrl A on Windows and Linux selects them all in the picker. Grape counts the notebooks, notes and attachments it found and shows them before anything is written, then imports with a progress counter.

Step by stepOn desktop

1Open Settings, go to Data, choose Import and then Evernote.

Folders

Notes16

Daily Notes4

Reading5

Templates2

Work6

Meetings12

Projects6

Follow ups5

Import on mobile

Put the .enex files where your phone can reach them, such as iCloud Drive, Google Drive or AirDrop to the Files app. In Grape, open Settings, go to Data and tap Import from Evernote, then pick the files. You see the same count before anything is written, and the row shows the progress while it runs.

Step by stepOn mobile

1Tap the gear on the Folders screen to open Settings.

2Tap Data.

3Tap Import from Evernote and pick your .enex files.

Data

Import

Import Markdown Files

Pick a folder and every markdown or text file inside it becomes a note.

Import from Evernote

Export your notebooks from Evernote on a computer as .enex files, then pick them here. Each notebook becomes a folder.

Export

Export All Notes

Export all notes as a ZIP file with markdown files

Danger Zone

Delete All Data

Delete all notes, folders, chats, tags, drawings, flashcards, quizzes, mind maps, and related data including uploaded images, documents, and audio files. Settings and account will be preserved.

Delete Account

Permanently delete your account, subscription, and all synced data from the cloud. Notes stored on this device will be kept.

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4Check what Grape found and tap Continue.

Data

Import

Import Markdown Files

Pick a folder and every markdown or text file inside it becomes a note.

Import from Evernote

Export your notebooks from Evernote on a computer as .enex files, then pick them here. Each notebook becomes a folder.

Export

Export All Notes

Export all notes as a ZIP file with markdown files

Danger Zone

Delete All Data

Delete all notes, folders, chats, tags, drawings, flashcards, quizzes, mind maps, and related data including uploaded images, documents, and audio files. Settings and account will be preserved.

Delete Account

Permanently delete your account, subscription, and all synced data from the cloud. Notes stored on this device will be kept.

Import from EvernoteEach notebook becomes a folder in Grape. The following will be imported: 5 folders 1240 notes 318 media filesCancelContinue

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5The row counts the notes as they come in.

Data

Import

Import Markdown Files

Pick a folder and every markdown or text file inside it becomes a note.

Importing 412 / 1240

Export your notebooks from Evernote on a computer as .enex files, then pick them here. Each notebook becomes a folder.

Export

Export All Notes

Export all notes as a ZIP file with markdown files

Danger Zone

Delete All Data

Delete all notes, folders, chats, tags, drawings, flashcards, quizzes, mind maps, and related data including uploaded images, documents, and audio files. Settings and account will be preserved.

Delete Account

Permanently delete your account, subscription, and all synced data from the cloud. Notes stored on this device will be kept.

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6When it is done, Grape says what it brought in.

Data

Import

Import Markdown Files

Pick a folder and every markdown or text file inside it becomes a note.

Import from Evernote

Export your notebooks from Evernote on a computer as .enex files, then pick them here. Each notebook becomes a folder.

Export

Export All Notes

Export all notes as a ZIP file with markdown files

Danger Zone

Delete All Data

Delete all notes, folders, chats, tags, drawings, flashcards, quizzes, mind maps, and related data including uploaded images, documents, and audio files. Settings and account will be preserved.

Delete Account

Permanently delete your account, subscription, and all synced data from the cloud. Notes stored on this device will be kept.

Import CompleteSuccessfully imported from Evernote. 1238 notes imported 5 folders created 318 media files imported 4 attachments left out (Grape cannot open their file type)OK

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What comes across

Notebooks become folders named after their files. Evernote leaves stacks out of its export; rename a file to Stack@@@Notebook.enex and Grape puts the notebook inside a folder for the stack. A folder that already has the notebook's name takes its notes.
Titles and dates. Each note opens with its Evernote title and keeps the date it was created and last edited, so it sorts where it did before.
Tags become hashtags under the title and tags in the sidebar. A Grape tag is letters, numbers, dashes and underscores, so spaces become dashes, accents come off, a tag that starts with a number gets an underscore in front, and a tag written entirely in another script, such as Japanese, is left out.
Formatting: headings, bold, italics, underline, strikethrough, highlights in the closest Grape color, bulleted and numbered lists with their nesting, tables, code blocks, quotes, indents, horizontal rules and links.
Checklists from every Evernote version stay checklists with their ticks, and the tasks of Evernote 10 come in as checklist items where they stood, with their due date written after them.
Pictures, PDFs and recordings land in the note where they were. On desktop a PDF shows its first page, on the phone a card with its name. Pictures a clipped page kept inside the note come across too.
Links between notes become note links. Evernote's export does not say which note a link points to, so Grape matches it by the link's text, which is the title of the note it was made from.
Web clips keep their text and pictures, and a link to the page they came from sits under the title.

What stays behind

Files Grape cannot open, such as Word documents, spreadsheets, ZIP files, videos, ink notes and the AMR voice memos of old Android phones. The note keeps a line with the file's name where it was, and the summary at the end says how many were left out.
Encrypted text. Evernote encrypts it with a passphrase only you know, so it arrives as a line saying the text is encrypted, with its hint. Decrypt it permanently in Evernote before you export if you want the text itself.
Reminders, note history, shortcuts and sharing are not part of Evernote's export.
Empty notes, with neither a title nor anything in them, are skipped.

After the import

A large export can take a few minutes. The notes are listed for sync and go up on its next run with their attachments; give the first sync time to finish before you open them on another device. If you use the AI features, let indexing work through the new notes before you rely on AI search. Title and keyword search work straight away, and PDFs are read for search in the background.

A link to a note you did not import stays a link to that title, and it starts working as soon as a note with that title exists.

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Share to Grape from your phone

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Import notes from Evernote

Export your notebooks from Evernote

Import on desktop

Import on mobile

What comes across

What stays behind

After the import

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