Hey guys, I recently switched to Joplin after using Colornote for quite a while. Due to Colornote's lack of export features, the migration process was a pain. Additionally, I wanted to keep the creation and modification dates of my notes intact. So I ended up writing a script that takes care of all…

[image] ratchek: Could somebody please paste the link in there, and change all the "colornotes" to "colornote"? (Including the one in the url to the github page. I've changed everything but the gh link, since the repo still uses the s.

I just changed the repo. Could you change the link too?

Done. Now you still have to change the README.md and the script name in the repo.... :wink:

Thank you! And thanks for reminding me about those changes! I think it's all good again. :grin:

Hi, I can't seem to run this script to convert my colornote.db to joplin. I have installed all the necessary apps copied the colornote_to_joplin.py and colonornote.db files to the python install directory. When I try to run the .py file in python I get stuck. I get the error in the screenshot below…

Sorry. This code is from the good old times where I didn't really bother/know about error handling, so it's a bit hard to diagnose. My best guess is that the script can't communicate with the joplin api properly and that's messing up the json library. If it's super urgent, you can try and paste prin…

Thanks for responding. Am on windows 10, am not a coder. I however edited the colornote_to_joplin file and ran it as directed and attached is the screenshot of what I got. [Joplin Capture after py edit] Also this is the colornote_to_joplin.py file am running just in case you need to look at it. c…

Hmmm. Ok. Could you change the print(r.json()) that you just pasted to a print(r), run it again, and paste the output? Also another thing that would help is if you pasted this: http://127.0.0.1:41184/folders?token=ADD-YOUR-TOKEN-HERE into your web-browser url bar and posted a screenshot of that. …

Attached below are the two screenshots as requested. The browser page screenshot: [Joplin BROWSER Capture]

The py file execution screenshot: [Joplin Capture after py edit 2] Thanks.

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Marph 10 June 2026 15:42 23

Just to add another option: You might try Jimmy to convert from Colornote to Markdown and import this to Joplin:

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