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Seems if EN would just put the cursor focus on the title we could type something, click return, then onto the body, so pretty good/normal functionality. But instead EN puts the cursor focus on the body and when we start typing there's no title and things get messy. Option A would seem a simple fix. Additionally, it would be cool if we could optionally pre-populate the title with "YYMMDD-" where we could then type a title after the mini date. Not sure if something's wrong but when I moved some files to a new notebook in EN their "last edited date" was updated and it messed up sorting order. Similar to a previous comment, audiofiles are being assigned mm.dd.yyyy format whereas yyyymmdd is WAY better for sorting esp if downloaded to a directory. Ironically, I have an old EN audio note from 2019 which had yyyymmdd in the title, which was better.

I'm in the same boat as karlos1234 moving from Apple Notes and will give his python program a go. Looking at EN's .enex XML file, it's a reasonable format but import/export in markdown pulling creation and modified dates from the file itself would be more convenient. Maybe also JSON instead of XML, and/or converting the content node from HTML to markdown. If EN did add these features they could be for the paid users.... But for now, gonna give karlos1234's program a whirl. It would be nice to hear if EN might add such features.

Thank you for sharing that method, and great to hear it works, all I'm suggesting is that this is formalized with a menu option. The benefit would be it could check versions for inconsistencies that may have been migrated between your local database and the EN client for example as well as other checks. But cool, thank you

Thanks, yes I 'm not trying to query EN's local database directly, but how exactly can one "restore" using the EN client? Let's say your running computer gets stolen and someone deletes all your EN data, so it's gone on the cloud and your local copy. But you have a recent version on Timemachine, so you get that loaded on a computer then pull up your EN client and IMO there should be a menu option "Restore from local Database". This would meet requirements for those who need a disaster recovery plan, and as EN already can sync after offline work, they apparently already support this general functionality. For those using EN for lots of important docs, this is an important feature IMO.

On Monterey I found two Evernote folders both under: username->library->containers. However, if you can work with Evernote offline (I've not tried) and it can load all data, then there is a local database. I'd like more clarity backing up to/from a local database as well.

Thank you for the info and tip, I'll try the app Tripmode. I'll also run the offline test which would ensure the local database has been replicated. That would get backed up to timemachine so good stuff. Given your response I wonder where the worry came from re databases not being local on the Mac in version 10... As you seem like an avid user, and I have lots of notes to import, may I ask how you find utilizing the database features of EN? As in the tags and categorical searches? I only used EN for notes in the past but a lot of ppl seem to use EN now like a file database or an annotated filesystem, which seems cool and yet quite a different use case. Thanks!

Hi and thank you PinkElephant. So the full EN database is there (after ensuring sync is complete) such that it'll be backed up on time machine and that if some hacker deleted my online data I could restore from the database in time machine (or any other copy of the database)?

Just wanted to upvote that for me the most important aspect in committing to EN over other note apps is a local database (in my case on mac) that can be backed up and restored from.

Hi, I used EN for years and am now back as I moved back to Android. Lots to like in the newer version like better audio and sketching, but the seeming lack of a local Database to be backed up, work offline, and to restore from is concerning. The clearest answer seems to be Lstar's rather unusual method of restoring: "... after a long week working, I managed to restore my notes from the "deleted items" folder." In EN 10.4 is there not a stable local database?