Import from Evernote did not include tags

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Hello,

I’m trying to move from Evernote to Joplin. I exported all the notes in each of my Evernote notebooks to an individual .enex file. I imported 1 into Joplin and it seemed to work remarkably well. The notes look great.

However, none of the tags made it into Joplin. Is this a bug in the current version or is there something I can do different to get it to work? I didn’t see any issues on Github mentioning this problem.

  • Evernote: Version 7.11 (457846 Direct)
  • Joplin: 1.0.160
  • Both desktops clients on macOS 10.14.4 (18E226)
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Can you provide an example ENEX file that shows the problem? Tags normally should be imported too.

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I was about to share a file when I decided to take a look inside one. Sure enough, no tags. I didn’t recall seeing any export options in Evernote, but after checking again I found there was a checkbox at the bottom of save modal window for exporting. Why would that one piece of metadata have to be turned on in the export, who knows? Anyway, I re-exported all my notebooks and the tags have made it through the import this time. Thanks.

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Similarly, I am leaving Evernote and migrating to Joplin. This strange quirk reminded me again that leaving Evernote was the right choice :slight_smile: Thanks for sharing this, I got my tags back thanks to this post.

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Welcome. And welcome to new and different quirks! :slight_smile:

I came here just to make that joke. Heh. But … welcome! Seriously though. I love Joplin, but all software application have their idiosyncrasies. :slight_smile:

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:joy: LOL..

Thank you! I love it so far. I much prefer these quirks, where I have some control over them via css hacks & we have control over the tool as a community :smiley:

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