A lot went wrong with Evernote before I dumped it for Obsidian. However, migrating from Evernote to another note-taking app is a bit tricky. Evernote doesn't offer a one-click export option and only exports in its proprietary ENEX format or the web .html format, which honestly isn't very useful.

While Obsidian supports ENEX format, you can only import 50 notes at a time without risking file corruption. After trying a few options, I ended up using a free ENEX to Markdown converter to export over 1,000 Evernote notes to Obsidian.

Why I switched from Evernote to Obsidian

Evernote's free plan is painfully limited

I had more than a few thousand notes in Evernote before the company decided to restrict free users to 50 notes. I primarily used it as a text editor to write articles, because why

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