ENEX to Markdown,
Without the Upload

Nothing is uploaded. The converter runs entirely in your browser: the file is read locally, parsed locally, and the Markdown and ZIP are generated locally. Your notes never touch a server, ours included. You can disconnect from the internet after the page loads and it keeps working.

In the Evernote desktop app, select a notebook (or specific notes), then choose File, then Export Notes, and pick the ENEX format. Evernote exports one .enex file per selection. Export notebook by notebook if you want the folder structure reflected in your file names.

Attachments embedded in your notes, such as images and PDFs, are extracted and included in the ZIP download in an attachments folder, with a reference left in each note's Markdown where the attachment appeared. Encrypted note content cannot be converted and is marked as such.

Text, headings, bold and italic, links, lists, to-do checkboxes, quotes, and code convert cleanly. Complex layouts degrade gracefully: tables flatten to readable rows and unusual formatting becomes plain paragraphs. The goal is notes you can actually use anywhere, not a pixel-perfect replica of Evernote's rendering.

Yes, within your browser's memory. Exports with hundreds of notes convert in seconds. For very large accounts, export notebook by notebook rather than everything at once; that also keeps the output organized.

If Mindly is where you are heading, you may not need this converter at all: the Mindly macOS app imports Evernote .enex files directly now, for everyone, tagging and summarizing every note and connecting it to related items you already saved. This tool is for the other cases, when you want portable Markdown for any app that is not Mindly, or when you would rather hand-pick and clean specific notes before bringing them anywhere. Either way there is no lock-in.

ENEX is Evernote's export format: a single XML file that wraps one or more notes written in ENML, Evernote's own dialect of HTML, with images and attachments embedded as base64 text. Double-clicking it opens a wall of markup rather than your notes, because no everyday app reads ENML. Converting to Markdown turns that markup back into readable, portable notes.

For this converter, use ENEX: it keeps note metadata like tags and timestamps that HTML export drops, and it bundles attachments in the same file. HTML is a reasonable fallback if a notebook refuses to export as ENEX, and most tools can read it, but you lose the structured metadata. If your destination is the Mindly app, ENEX is also what it imports directly.

It is free with no account, no sign-up, and no limit on how many notes or files you convert. There is no catch because there is no server cost to us: the work happens on your device, not ours. It is built by the team behind Mindly, a macOS second brain app, and the only ask is that you consider Mindly if you want somewhere to actually keep the notes afterward.

Export your notebooks from the Evernote desktop app as ENEX, convert them to Markdown here, then drop the resulting .md files into your Obsidian vault folder. Obsidian reads Markdown natively, so the notes appear as normal pages with their attachments alongside. This is the same path for Evernote to Logseq or any other Markdown-based app: convert once, then point the app at the files.

For a small number of notes, Obsidian's importer is fine and worth using. For large archives it is less reliable: it is widely reported to handle only around 50 notes at a time before risking corrupted imports, which is why standalone converters exist. Converting to Markdown first gives you a clean, inspectable set of files you can import in one go, keep as a backup, or take to any app rather than only Obsidian.