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Post by c6rew on Sept 15, 2014 10:11:03 GMT
Hi All,
Still pursuing the possibility of using OneNote again.
Have been using Evernote2Onenote for the transfer. Bear in mind to import your Notebooks into OneNote you will need to remove the tags, otherwise you get duplicate Notes in Sections where you have multiple tags.
The easiest way to do this is export a Notebook from Evernote as an Enex file without it's tags, then import the Enex file directly into OneNote using the Evernote2Onenote software.
You don't need to do as the web site says for Evernote2Onenote and import the Notebook back to Evernote!
More to follow!
Regards
Chris
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Post by ab1kenobee on Sept 16, 2014 16:00:40 GMT
Appreciate.
Alan
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Post by wordsgood on Sept 20, 2014 4:28:47 GMT
Oh no. My whole system is set up using tags.
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Post by burgersnfries on Sept 20, 2014 16:39:44 GMT
Oh no. My whole system is set up using tags. IIRC, the issues are if you have multiple tags. When using Evernote2Onenote.exe, any notes with no tags go into a default section. Notes with one tag go into a section with the name of the tag. For notes with multiple tags, the note will be duplicated in a section for each tag. IE, a note with tag1, tag2 & tag3 will be created three times. The note will appear in section "tag1" and section "tag2" and section "tag3". At least that's the way I understand it & appears to be the way it's working for me. If you don't mind having dup'd notes, it's NBD. But for me... I'm still struggling with notes (pages) with multiple tags. Since Onenote's search seems pretty good, I'm able to add keywords into some notes. Er, pages. But some, I still can't decide where the note should reside. I prefer to not duplicate the note in multiple notebooks b/c if I ever change the note, then I either must make the same change in all the other occurrences or else end up with multiple notes & trying to find out what one is the current one. (sigh) So I'm trying something new. I'm going to put the note page in a notebook & then copy the link to the other notebooks that are applicable. I do not know if note page links break like they can in Evernote & it's late, I've got to finish a couple of things & so I'm too tired/lazy to Google it. If anyone comes up with a better way, PLEASE post! |
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Post by wordsgood on Sept 21, 2014 11:17:57 GMT
Thanks BNF. There's the rub, most of my notes do have multiple tags. Argh.
On the upside, I'm finally starting to feel human again. Dang flu bugs!
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Post by dutchpete on Sept 21, 2014 12:42:29 GMT
This illustrates that using tags is not good. Transferring to another app could even result in losing tags altogether.
Links are also at risk, particularly internal ones.
As for tags, it is better to use good titles & keywords in the titles or in the body of the note, or to use so-called short code title "tags". The latter aren't really tags in the conventional sense but are 2 or 3 letter codes that allow you easliy & quickly make a note identifiable & searchable.
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Post by grumpymonkey on Sept 22, 2014 4:44:27 GMT
For what it's worth, I developed my system to be as portable as possible in order to avoid these issues. It isn't perfect, but it has worked well for the last three years. 1. Titles of notes are all unique. 2. Links are hard coded into each note based on nvALT's rules: double brackets enclosing the file name. 3. Notes are separated from attachments (the links lead to them and/or they can be displayed). 4. Tags are Mavericks (Mac) tags and/or hardcoded into the notes as reference codes or keywords. 5. Rich text is accomplished with markdown. True, it isn't as elegant looking as it might be if I stuck with one app, but it travels nicely. For example, when I had to move out of Evernote, my notes easily functioned in VoodooPad (not as well with attachments, but they could be found) and nvALT (worked perfectly). The links aren't respected by DEVONthink, but the tags are, and everything is searchable. If I had to move into OneNote, I think I'd lose a lot of the benefits of my system, but at the very least, the keywords in each note could still function effectively to find things. Like I said, it isn't able to take advantage of all the nice features in apps like Evernote or OneNote (tagging is usually the most difficult thing), but I never have a single worry about portability. It smoothly moves from one app to another. At the moment, my primary collection of stuff numbers about 10,000 items -- mainly text notes with about 1,000 attachments of various kinds. In total, I have many hundreds of thousands of items on my external drives and so forth, but those are generally ancillary. All of this is outlined on my website -- here is a nice place to start: www.christopher-mayo.com/?p=839Windows folks, unfortunately, really seem to have a lot fewer options. It sucks, but it is really more of a developer / revenue thing than a flaw in the OS. |
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Post by CleverClogs on Sept 22, 2014 13:40:15 GMT
Hi, You may want to take a look at OneNote Batch and the add-ins from OneNote Gem. These are paid products with trial versions. OneNote Batch has a module to convert Evernote notebooks to OneNote. It promises to retain Evernote tags as marked-up keywords in OneNote page titles. More information at the developer's site www.onenotegem.com/onenote-gem---keyword-tags.html. Please note I have no commercial ties to it. I hope this helps. Marjolein Hoekstra cleverclogs |
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Post by wordsgood on Sept 23, 2014 14:44:34 GMT
EDIT: I just sent the Dev a note asking if his Keyword Tags add-in or any of his other add-ins are capable of importing an Evernote database (to OneNote) *with* the Tags intact. I'll keep everyone posted. Cheers. Thank you for this. It looks promising! Hi, You may want to take a look at OneNote Batch and the add-ins from OneNote Gem. These are paid products with trial versions. OneNote Batch has a module to convert Evernote notebooks to OneNote. It promises to retain Evernote tags as marked-up keywords in OneNote page titles. More information at the developer's site www.onenotegem.com/onenote-gem---keyword-tags.html. Please note I have no commercial ties to it. I hope this helps. Marjolein Hoekstra cleverclogs |
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Post by grumpymonkey on Oct 3, 2014 21:56:06 GMT
Here is a nice blog post about moving AWAY from OneNote. I think we both found it lacking for our needs, though instead of building my own app, I used one that is already available  ronn-bundgaard.dk/blog/i-say-goodbye-to-onenote/I think I could live with ON in an exclusively Windows world. Maybe. But, in a Mac world, for me, it is a non-starter. |
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