A Tool to Import Evernote notes to Anytype

Hey @jxelam

Anytype works differently from Evernote, so you need to rethink your organization. As long as the data is properly imported (don’t forget Anytype’s few limitations, for example on tables), everything’s fine, so all you have to do is play around with it to create an environment that suits you. This is the case for notebooks (names, nesting), which Evernote unfortunately doesn’t export anyway.

Anytype imports into a time-stamped collection (which I personally hate).

To reproduce an Evernote notebook, there are several solutions. Here’s a guide to one of them:

  • Rename the collection with your nokebook name (click to the title)

  • To display only notes and not files, filter : New filter > Change “Name” to “Object type” > Change “All” to “Has any of” > Add > Page

  • I also recommend modifying the relations displayed (Description isn’t used, you might as well remove it and display Evernote Tags).

  • Now for a nested notebook, create a collection with the root notebook name “Notebook stack”.

  • To add collection in it, Anytype has a real problem because it doesn’t clearly allow it directly…
    So, go back to you Notebook “My note”,

  • Go back to your “stack” collection, it’s done!

  • Last step : create a widget with your stack collection"

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If you want exact same thing than Evernote, Evernote has “Notebooks” > “Notebook stack” > “My notebook”… yes, another level of nesting is needed, a “Notebooks” collection needs to be remade and the manipulation redone to put in what you want.
But Anytype can’t display nested collection in the menu :frowning:
Edit : Oh, you can do it with simple page. I’ll update later :slight_smile:

Don’t hesitate to test to find out what suits you best!
I’ll make a separate post for “recreating Evernote in Anytype”, so it’ll be more visible than here.

And don’t hesitate to point out what’s missing to make Anytype as efficient as Evernote, or to vote for the proposals that interest you! There seem to be quite a few users migrating, but very few participating (compared to Notion users).

Better simple table :

Tag view in the sidebar menu :

Batch editing relations (like tags) :

etc :wink:

Dedicated post for this tutorial :