ENEX to Markdown Converter

About this tool

This converter turns an Evernote ENEX export into a single Markdown or plain-text document. ENEX files are XML: each <note> contains an ENML/HTML body, a title, timestamps, tags, optional source URL metadata, and optional base64 resources. The tool parses those notes locally, converts the ENML body to Markdown, and joins multiple notes with horizontal rules.

A minimal example:

<en-export>
  <note>
    <title>Migration note</title>
    <content><![CDATA[<en-note><h1>Hello</h1><p>Some <b>bold</b> text.</p></en-note>]]></content>
    <created>20230101T090000Z</created>
    <tag>import</tag>
  </note>
</en-export>

With Markdown and YAML frontmatter, the output includes the title, ISO-formatted date, tags, and converted body:

---
title: Migration note
created: 2023-01-01T09:00:00Z
tags: [import]
---

# Hello

Some **bold** text.

Use Metadata style to choose YAML frontmatter, inline metadata with #tags, or title-only output. Turn List attachments on to add an attachment section for each note; the tool reports filename, MIME type, and decoded size, but it does not emit the binary attachment files.

Limits

This is a text-output converter, not a full note-migration app. It concatenates notes into one document rather than writing one file per note, reports attachments instead of extracting them, and does not implement app-specific Obsidian/LogSeq/Tana presets. ENML checkboxes and some Evernote-only styling may be simplified by the HTML-to-Markdown pass. Very large exports can produce large output, so use smaller notebook-level ENEX exports when practical.

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