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[ral]

I was thinking of switching from Catch Notes to Evernote. I was wondering is there any way of importing my data from Catch Notes to Evernote.

TIA.

[BurgersNFries]

IDK anything about Catch Notes.

The way to get information into Evernote is to set up an import/watched folder (Please search the board for more info, should you need it.) or Drag N Drop. You would need to be able to export your notes from Catch Notes. Since Evernote is free, I suggest you try it with some notes, to see if it works the way you want it to.

[heather]

You can export your notes from Catch to a .txt file that is stored on your SD card.

• Open the app
• Press Settings in Menu
• Scroll down to the export tab

You .txt file of notes will be on your SD card. You can retrieve this file from using a file manager app and emailing it to yourself or by plugging your phone to your computer with the USB cable.
Once you've done that, install Evernote Desktop, and simply drag the file onto the Evernote icon. It will create a new note with the content of your Catch notes.
Due to the way Catch exports your notes, they will all be in one "uber-note", but you can export and sort them later from within Evernote.

[thedreamykind]

I tried the web version of "export to csv file" on Catch, that didn't work out very well though.

I followed this approach, which I think works very well:
Install the Evernote web clipper on your browser, export all your catch notes as a web page (all notes appear on the same page), select the text of each note in turn and clip it using the web clipper to make a new note on Evernote. While clipping, you can easily see your tags on catch (#tags) and correspondingly add tags on Evernote.

[Mighty]

New Evernote user, transfering from Catch.com I stumbled on a slightly better way to do this. OpenOffice.

First, go to the Catch.com site, go in your profile, and export to CSV. Import that CSV into OpenOffice Calc. The content of your notes will be in the cells.

• Click on a cell with your text and tap Ctrl-C
• Switch over to Evernote Desktop
• Click New Note
• Paste into the note. It will even retain your line breaks and spaces
• Click back on the cell you just copied
• Tap Down Arrow to get to the next cell

One oddity. For me, it usually takes 3-5 taps of Ctrl-V to get it to "take." Same with using the menu, Edit->Paste. I have no idea why this happens. A little annoying. But better than having to carefully use the mouse to highlight each note using the Web Clipper.

I have 288 notes. So, I'm going to spend a few more minutes searching around to see if I can find a tool to automagically split that field of the CSV into its own file. If it would work on the first try I could probably be finished in five minutes.

Drake Christensen

[heather]

If you're on Windows, and have Excel, Evernote Support has a script you can plug into Excel that will split a .csv into individual text files.

[McK]

Thank you. But the main question is about the attacments!!! I have 350 notes with several pics on each. If there is no automatic way to transform them to evernotes, I have to stay on catch. Could you reply on makeev.al.n@gmail.com, please