How to properly import notes into joplin?

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Operating system

Linux

Joplin version

2.14.9

What issue do you have?

I want to go to Joplin. I currently use clipto for notes and ticktick for tasks. Clipto exports notes to a json file, ticktick to a CSV file. How do I import these files into Joplin? I tried many online services and python scripts to convert json files to markdown, but couldn't do anything. I haven't started converting CSV yet. How to do it right?

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For those file types, use an external file format conversion program like pandoc to convert those files into Markdown. Then, in Joplin, try File > Import > MD - Markdown File for each file.

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I think in general, the markdown conversion and import is the easiest way to import notes, as @muzak said. But I doubt that it can be done in this case, since the note content is somewhere nested in the CSV/JSON file.

You will probably have to write your own importer. I couldn't find much information about the file formats. If you are aware of some documentation or can post the exported files here, maybe someone can help.

Related links:

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I'm probably doing something wrong, but I can't convert json to md. Could you please suggest the correct command for conversion?

kot@192:~/bin/tmp/gjc$ pandoc -o clipto_backup_240326_082618.json clipto_backup_240326_082618.md
pandoc: clipto_backup_240326_082618.md: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
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The output file should be directly after the output option (Pandoc - Pandoc User’s Guide). In your case: pandoc -o clipto_backup_240326_082618.md clipto_backup_240326_082618.json

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kot@192:~/bin/tmp/gjc$ pandoc -o clipto_backup_240326_082618.md clipto_backup_240326_082618.json
JSON parse error: Error in $: JSON missing pandoc-api-version.
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After reading the pandoc website, I think it supports only the specific CSL JSON format. Your note has most likely another format. So I guess we are at this point again:

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I tried to convert the csv file and nothing worked either, the output md file has the following content:

Date: 2024-03-26+0000

Version: 7.1
Status: 0 Normal 1 Completed 2 Archived
Folder Name

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Here is an example json file:
clipto_backup_240331_102627 (1).json (3.6 KB)

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For CSV, you need to find the correct markdown variant (see Importing notes from other notebook applications). For me pandoc -o output.md -t gfm input.csv worked.

The JSON format is human readable. I might write an import script if I get some time in the next weeks.

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