# Seeing HTML code in mobile app
**URL:** https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/seeing-html-code-in-mobile-app/41643
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [29 October 2024 18:23 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/seeing-html-code-in-mobile-app/41643 "2024-10-29T18:23:41Z")
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### Author:  [@dpmentor](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/dpmentor)
#### Post date: [29 October 2024 18:23 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/seeing-html-code-in-mobile-app/41643/1 "2024-10-29T18:23:41Z")
### Operating system
Android
### Joplin version
3.0.8
### What issue do you have?
I have successfully imported all my Evernote notes to migrate to Joplin. But when I try to add anything to them in the mobile app I only see HTML code. I just want to take notes, not build a website. It's too hard to edit. What am I missing here? This is what it looks like when I hit edit.
### Screenshots
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### Author:  [@dpmentor](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/dpmentor)
#### Post date: [29 October 2024 18:24 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/seeing-html-code-in-mobile-app/41643/2 "2024-10-29T18:24:16Z")
This is how it looks before hitting edit
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### Author:  [@Heyooooooo](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Heyooooooo)
#### Post date: [31 October 2024 10:47 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/seeing-html-code-in-mobile-app/41643/3 "2024-10-31T10:47:04Z")
You may need to try one of the different options of exporting from Evernote, one that doesn't preserve the HTML. You will lose some of the formatting since Markdown doesn't have multicolor highlighting, but pt will be easier to edit.
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### Author:  [@LeoW](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/LeoW)
#### Post date: [31 October 2024 10:54 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/seeing-html-code-in-mobile-app/41643/4 "2024-10-31T10:54:17Z")
Hi,
I am also a converter from Evernote to Joplin. I think I have an idea about what might have gone wrong.
First what method did you use to export your notebooks From Evernote?
I used the program from GitHub that is a Evernote Backup Tool that creates all of your notebooks In the standard Evernote export format.
When you are importing into Joplin you don't want to import as HTML you want to import as markdown.
Give that a try.
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### Author:  [@dpmentor](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/dpmentor)
#### Post date: [1 November 2024 23:30 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/seeing-html-code-in-mobile-app/41643/5 "2024-11-01T23:30:48Z")
I just exported them from Evernote using the directions Joplin provided. I didn't import them I don't think or I don't remember
So what now??
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### Author:  [@Wimvan](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Wimvan)
#### Post date: [2 November 2024 00:06 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/seeing-html-code-in-mobile-app/41643/6 "2024-11-02T00:06:46Z")
Export from EN to markdown, not to html. Then import the enex-file into
Joplin and evaluate the result for yourself. You’ll see your notes in markdown.
(That‘s what I did, if I remember it right.)
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### Author:  [@dpoulton](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/dpoulton)
#### Post date: [2 November 2024 09:58 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/seeing-html-code-in-mobile-app/41643/7 "2024-11-02T09:58:55Z")
I believe that it is the **import**. An ENEX file can be imported as either HTML or Markdown.
If imported as HTML a lot of the formatting used in Evernote will be retained but in order to achieve that the note is created using, as the import suggests, HTML. It will make the notes very difficult to edit, as you have found.
If imported as Markdown a lot of the formatting (such as the highlights in your screenshot) will be lost. That is because [Markdown is limited in the formatting it can apply](https://joplinapp.org/help/apps/markdown). The advantage is that the note will be easy to edit. That is why Joplin was created as a Markdown-based note taking app. It was so that a note was not in a proprietary format, was easy to read _without the app_, and the information it contained could easily be moved elsewhere.
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### Author:  [@LeoW](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/LeoW)
#### Post date: [2 November 2024 22:20 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/seeing-html-code-in-mobile-app/41643/8 "2024-11-02T22:20:23Z")
Hi,
Use this tool to export everything from Evernote into a file which can then be turned into a file folder of Evernote export files. Import one notebook only and do it as markdown and then take a look at it and it will be best that way versus I think importing as html.
The export from Evernote is done in only one format you don't choose markdown or HTML when backing up from evernote. It is the import into Joplin that determines whether it gets imported as HTML or gets imported as mark down.
> **[GitHub - vzhd1701/evernote-backup: Backup & export all Evernote notes and notebooks](https://github.com/vzhd1701/evernote-backup)**
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> Backup & export all Evernote notes and notebooks
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [2 December 2024 22:20 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/seeing-html-code-in-mobile-app/41643/9 "2024-12-02T22:20:50Z")
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