What comes across in an Evernote import?

The core of your Evernote account comes across intact:

• Notebooks — each .enex file arrives as its own notebook, named after the file.
• Tags — carried over and applied to the right notes.
• Note content — text and formatting, including checklists.
• Attachments — PDFs, images, scans, and other files travel with their notes.
• Original dates — created and updated timestamps are preserved.
• Web clips — pages you clipped over the years come along too, with their source URLs.

After the import, Harbor does something Evernote charged extra for: it runs OCR on your attachments, so the words inside your scanned documents and photos become searchable. Give a large library a little time to index — it happens on our servers, in the background.

Because the import uses Evernote’s own ENEX export format, anything ENEX doesn’t carry can’t come across — by Harbor or by anyone else:

• Notebook stacks — ENEX has no field for a stack, so your notebooks arrive ungrouped. Drag them back into stacks once and you’re done.
• Tag hierarchies — every tag comes across, but nested tags arrive flat. Harbor’s tags nest up to three levels, so you can re-parent them.
• Note-to-note links — Evernote writes these as evernote:/// URLs that only work inside Evernote. They survive as text but won’t take you anywhere.
• Note history — Evernote doesn’t include past versions in an export, so Harbor’s version history starts fresh from the day you import.
• Saved searches and reminders — neither travels in an ENEX file.

The full walkthrough, with the export step, is at Import Evernote into Harbor.

If something in your library doesn’t look right after an import, email help@harbor.my — we want to see it. Making the move from Evernote painless is the thing we care most about getting right. Start at Switching from Evernote.