RecoveryTools · Evernote migration software for Windows
Move Evernote notes out of an ENEX export file, or straight from a connected account with nothing exported first. Save them as PDF, Word, Outlook or image files.
No credit card, no scripts, no sign-up. Run a notebook through it, open what lands and buy only if that output is what you wanted.
Screenshot of source selection in Evernote Migrator
Two Ways Into Your Evernote Notes
Most Evernote converter tools accept one thing, an ENEX file you exported yourself. This Evernote migration tool will convert ENEX files the same way, and it reads a connected account as well, so a single licence covers both jobs.
Point at a single .enex file, or at a folder holding multiple ENEX files. That folder is scanned first and the result is shown to you, so a job reading fourteen notebooks and 1,340 notes at 2.4 GB tells you how big this work is before you commit to it. Rescan picks up anything added since. No sign-in of any kind is involved and it keeps working with no network at all.
Connect Account signs you in at Evernote and reads notebooks straight from a live account. Nothing has to be exported first and nothing has to be unzipped. Because notebooks are read as they actually exist, real names travel with them rather than being guessed at. Take this route when an account is large enough that exporting is itself the slow part.
Evernote Migration, Screen By Screen
Every screen below is in one $39 licence. Nothing here is a paid module and no saving format costs extra.
Step one asks a single thing and offers two routes to answer it. Pick a file and that folder is scanned and summarised on the spot. Pick an account and your notebooks are read live. Which route suits you is printed underneath rather than buried in a help page.
This step is where a run stops being a copy and turns into a conversion. Document formats for reading and archiving, email formats when notes have to land in a mail client, image formats when a note is really a picture.
Everything found in your source is listed with a checkbox beside it, so a run can cover one notebook or entire notebooks in a single pass. Tag rules then do narrowing that ticking by hand cannot.
Send output to any folder, a local drive, an external disk or back where your source came from. Saving options decide what shape it arrives in rather than only its address.
Preview lists exactly which notes your settings have picked. That is your moment to catch a tag rule doing more than you meant, and it costs seconds against finding out weeks later.
A note migration that goes wrong rarely announces it. This closing step exists so a run is checked instead of trusted, and a log lands next to your converted data as a record to go back to.
What An ENEX File Can Become
Seventeen saving formats ship with one licence, so an archive, an editable document and a mailbox copy all come out of the same Evernote file converter. Convert ENEX files once, or run a whole folder through the ENEX file converter as one batch.
Notes written in any script come through as they were, so a notebook mixing languages does not need splitting up before a run.
Where A Note Move Usually Goes Wrong
Notes look like the simplest thing anyone ever asked to move, which is why most people try it by hand first. Three problems send them looking for an Evernote migration tool instead.
Evernote exports up to 100 notes at a time, or one notebook at a time, and only from its desktop app. For an account built over ten years, that queue is most of your work rather than a warm-up to it. Connecting your account skips that queue instead of speeding it up.
ENEX carries notes. It does not carry the name of the notebook they came from. Anything working purely from export files has to rebuild your structure out of file names and hope you named them well, which is why our first screen says so plainly.
Data loss during a note conversion is rarely loud. A run finishes, says it succeeded and leaves you to find weeks later that original formatting, an image or a whole attachment never came through. That is an argument for reading your selection back beforehand and checking each run afterwards.
Where Your Notes Go Next
This Evernote migrator writes files. It does not sign in to your new app for you. Pick a format that app already imports and the handover takes one step.
OneNote is where most people leaving Evernote end up. Save your notebooks as DOCX or HTML, then import those files into a OneNote section. Doing it this way means you are not waiting on an importer that only accepts ENEX and only runs on Windows.
Notion, Obsidian, Joplin, Bear, Notesnook and Apple Notes all read plain HTML or plain text. Save a notebook as HTML or TXT and it goes in through their own import screen, with no plugin and no command line in between.
Not everyone is moving to another note app. Some people want notes filed beside their mail, which is what PST, MSG and EML are for. Others want a backup they control, a set of PDFs on their own drive, readable in ten years with no subscription attached to them.
Three Evernote Jobs Done In Minutes
Three jobs that cost a weekend by hand. All three are covered by one purchase, with no per notebook or per gigabyte billing.
Our ENEX converter opens .enex, .html and .mht files on its own, so you can read what is inside them with no note-taking app behind it and no plugin to add. That matters most in a situation people are usually in when they come looking, which is that a subscription has already lapsed and those files are all that is left of years of meeting notes, project records and personal writing.
Add a directory rather than a file and every export inside it is handled together, in one pass with one set of settings. Bulk conversion has no cap on how many notes go through and no file size limit either, so thousands of notes across a decade of notebooks stay one job rather than an afternoon of repetition.
Sometimes it is not the notes you need but the files attached to them. Extract attachments writes every image, PDF and document into a folder of its own, so what you actually need is recovered without converting surrounding text at all.
Migrate Evernote Notes In Six Steps
Seven screens, six decisions, nothing to script. A first notebook goes through inside the free trial, so evaluating this Evernote migrator costs an evening rather than a purchase order.
Point at an export file or a folder of them, or connect an Evernote account instead. On a file route, scanning reports how many notebooks and notes turned up and what they weigh, so you know the size of the job before starting it.
Decide where the notes are going.
Cut the run down to the notebooks and notes that actually need moving.
Set where the output is written.
Read back what your current settings actually selected, before a single note is written. Catch a filter doing more or less than you meant while changing it still costs nothing.
Start a run and let it work. When it stops, a closing screen shows how the job went rather than leaving you at a finished progress bar, and a log file lands beside that output so something exists to check against weeks later.
Two Routes To The Same Notes
The manual method is free, and for twenty notes it is the right call. Past that, here is what $39 buys you instead.
Evernote Migrator, Before You Install
Evernote Migration Questions Answered
No, and that is what separates this Evernote migration tool from a plain converter. Connect Account takes you through an Evernote sign-in and pulls notebooks from there, so nothing has to be prepared, queued or unzipped first. An export file still works and is often better when those files already sit on disk, or when an account has since been closed.
ENEX stands for Evernote Export. Evernote writes this file when notes are taken out for use somewhere else. A single file can hold many notes. Give our tool one file, or a whole directory of them, and that directory becomes one job rather than a series of separate ones.
Because ENEX does not carry them. An export file holds notes, not a notebook name, so any tool working from export files has to borrow that name from a file name instead. Our first screen says so plainly rather than leaving you to find out later. Connecting your account avoids this, because notebooks arrive with the names you gave them.
Yes. An export file asks for no sign-in and keeps working with no network connection at all. People usually take that route once an account has been closed, or when notes have to be handled on a machine that is not allowed online.
Yes. Select Notes is a step of its own, sitting between choosing a saving format and choosing an output folder, so narrowing a run down is part of your ordinary path rather than an advanced setting hidden behind something.
Yes. Preview is step five of seven, immediately before Migrate, and it reads back what your current settings actually picked out. Scanning gives you a similar check earlier on, since it reports how many notebooks and notes were found and what they weigh. Review Results then shows you how the run went at the end.
Yes, through a file rather than a direct connection. Write a notebook out as DOCX or HTML for OneNote, or as HTML or TXT for Notion, Obsidian, Joplin, Bear and Apple Notes, then use that app's own import screen. Working through a file leaves you with a backup as well, one that does not depend on either service staying available.
Only if you take the export route, because Evernote will not export from its web app. Install the desktop app on Windows or Mac, export your notebooks as ENEX or HTML, then point us at that folder. Connect Account skips this, which is the reason it exists.
ENEX is an XML format and it stores tags, created date and author as metadata, provided you left those attributes ticked when Evernote wrote the file. Untick them at export time and they are gone before any converter ever sees them, so leave them on. Tags can then shape your output folders during a run.
Conversion happens on your machine. Take the export route and nothing leaves it at all, because that path needs no network and no sign-in. Take Connect Account and the only traffic is between your computer and Evernote, reading your notebooks down to your own disk. No middle server holds your notes, so privacy does not rest on one.
Yes. Point us at the file and its notes are read, listed and converted with no note-taking app installed. People usually arrive at this once a subscription has lapsed and an old export is all that survives, which is exactly when a file nothing on the machine can open becomes a problem.
39 US dollars, paid once, with no subscription behind it. A free trial caps each notebook at 25 notes and unlocks everything else, so a real notebook goes all the way through and you read that output before paying. It is enough to check what people actually worry about, which is whether notes arrive looking like notes.
This Evernote ENEX converter supports documents as PDF or a Word file, with RTF and TXT, plus XPS, EPUB, HTML and MHT also available. Email formats cover PST for Outlook alongside MSG and EML for individual messages. Images cover JPG, PNG, TIFF, GIF and BMP. A run produces one format, so if one notebook is wanted as an archive and as something editable, run it twice.
Yes, and it is a mode of its own rather than a side effect. Turn it on and files buried inside your notes are recovered into a folder by themselves, so when those files are what you actually want, surrounding text does not have to be converted at all.
Yes. Give it a directory rather than a single file and its contents go through together, under settings you choose once. Neither note count nor source size is capped, so ten years of notebooks does not have to be broken into sittings.
Tags do more than survive, they can do your filing. One rule builds destination folders out of existing tags, so structure is there the moment a run ends. Another takes only notes whose tag starts with a word you type, which is a practical way through a tag library holding hundreds of entries.
No. Exported files are parsed directly, so nothing else has to be present on that machine and no plugin needs adding. It is usually where people find themselves by the time they start looking, because a subscription lapsed a while ago and those files are all that survived.
Ten minutes with this Evernote migration tool tells you more than any feature list. Run a notebook, open what lands, then pay $39 once if it is right. There is no subscription behind it.