That's one reason we're saying you shouldn't do this yet, but when you do, you end up with a single file in Evernote's. They will be saved as a single file, you're not going to suddenly find - in our case - 7,068 individual note documents filling up our desktop.Īctually, you're not going to suddenly find anything: this is a slow job.

This takes you to a regular Save dialog and you need to pick somewhere on your Mac that you can export all the notes to. Instead, go to File and choose Export Notes. If you do this then Evernote tells you how many notes you've got and offers several options in a series of buttons such as Save Attachments or Move Notes To. Choose Select All from the Edit menu or press Command-A on your keyboard. Then click in a blank space in the All Notes column that appears. In theory, all of these can immediately go over to any other note taking app.ĭon't do this yet, but the idea is that you can open Evernote on your Mac, then click on All Notes toward the bottom of the left-hand navigation column. The odds are that the great majority of your notes in Evernote are short pieces of text.

There's also the fact that between them they demonstrate the different ways you can expect to import Evernote data into any app. We'll show you how to move all of your notes to Apple Notes, Bear and DEVONthink and only partly because all three are excellent. Also, you're going to need somewhere to put all these notes. The iOS version of Evernote is not able to export notes en masse, Nor is the online version at. You're going to have to do this on a Mac.

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