The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of the formats the Simplenote Import and Export tools support, and a brief explanation of the syntax and formatting for each.
For the examples, we’ll be exporting all notes for this account (2 notes total). The import formats mirror the output generated during export.
Note Created: [note creation date]
Note Updated: [note updated date]
Note Tags: [tags for notes, separated by commas]
Note Contents: [new line character]
[contents of note]
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Note Created: Dec. 11 2010 02:19:08
Note Updated: Dec. 11 2010 02:19:56
Note Tags: Ideas
Note Contents: Million Dollar Ideas:
A watch that tells you when you're going to die.
How it works: You put it on your wrist.
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Note Created: Dec. 11 2010 02:16:48
Note Updated: Dec. 11 2010 02:18:58
Note Tags: List,Food
Note Contents:
Grocery List for John Q. Public:
- Apples
- Soda
- Bread
- Blank Tapes
- Cookies
- Crayons
- Eggs
- Gravy
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Please note that CSV is more of a 'medium' than a standardized file format. Exporting to CSV without custom configuration will not work in the majority of cases.
[New line][Creation Date],[Updated Date],[Note Content],[Tags - optional, separated by ' ']
Dec 11 2010 02:19:08,Dec 11 2010 02:19:56,"Million Dollar Ideas:
A watch that tells you when you're going to die.
How it works: You put it on your wrist.",Ideas
Dec 11 2010 02:16:48,Dec 11 2010 02:18:58,"Grocery List for John Q. Public:
- Apples
- Soda
- Bread
- Blank Tapes
- Cookies
- Crayons
- Eggs
- Gravy
",List Food
[{"modifydate": "Dec 11 2010 02:19:56", "tags": ["Ideas"], "createdate": "Dec 11 2010 02:19:08", "systemtags": [], "content": "Million Dollar Ideas:\n\nA watch that tells you when you're going to die.\n\nHow it works: You put it on your wrist.", "key": "agtzaW1wbGUtbm90ZXINCxIETm90ZRjw0KUFDA"}, {"modifydate": "Dec 11 2010 02:18:58", "tags": ["List", "Food"], "createdate": "Dec 11 2010 02:16:48", "systemtags": [], "content": "Grocery List for John Q. Public:\n\n- Apples\n- Soda\n- Bread\n- Blank Tapes\n- Cookies\n- Crayons\n- Eggs\n- Gravy\n", "key": "agtzaW1wbGUtbm90ZXINCxIETm90ZRiTwKgFDA"}]
<notes> is the top level tag, and contains 0 or more <note> tags, each of which contains a single note.<note> tag contains the following tags:<key> - the key for the note<created> - creation date for the note, in ISO 8601 combined format.<modified> - modification date for the note, in ISO 8601 combined format.<tags> - contains 0 or more tag elements, i.e.: <tag> ‘myTagName’ </tag><content> - contains the note content<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<notes>
<note>
<key>agtzaW1wbGUtbm90ZXINCxIETm90ZRjw0KUFDA</key>
<created>2010-12-11T02:19:08</created>
<modified>2010-12-11T02:19:56</modified>
<tags>
<tag>Ideas</tag>
</tags>
<content>Million Dollar Ideas:
A watch that tells you when you're going to die.
How it works: You put it on your wrist.</content>
</note>
<note>
<key>agtzaW1wbGUtbm90ZXINCxIETm90ZRiTwKgFDA</key>
<created>2010-12-11T02:16:48</created>
<modified>2010-12-11T02:18:58</modified>
<tags>
<tag>List</tag>
<tag>Food</tag>
</tags>
<content>Grocery List for John Q. Public:
- Apples
- Soda
- Bread
- Blank Tapes
- Cookies
- Crayons
- Eggs
- Gravy
</content>
</note>
</notes>
-key:
content: [ note content ]
createdate: [date and time note was created ]
modifydate: [ date and time note was modified ]
tags:
- [ a tag ]
Details of the Evernote (ENEX) format can be found in the ENEX DTD
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE en-export SYSTEM "http://xml.evernote.com/pub/evernote-export.dtd">
<en-export export-date="20101211T032742Z" application="Simplenote" version="Simplenote Export">
<note>
<title>Million Dollar Ideas: A ...</title>
<content><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE en-note SYSTEM "http://xml.evernote.com/pub/enml.dtd"><en-note style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Million Dollar Ideas:<div><br/></div><div>A watch that tells you when you're going to die.</div><div><br/></div><div>How it works: You put it on your wrist.</div></en-note>]]></content>
<created>20101211T021908Z</created>
<updated>20101211T021956Z</updated>
<tag>Ideas</tag>
<author>asimpleuser@simperium.com</author>
<note-attributes/>
</note>
<note>
<title>Grocery List for John ...</title>
<content><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE en-note SYSTEM "http://xml.evernote.com/pub/enml.dtd"><en-note style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Grocery List for John Q. Public:<div><br/></div><div>- Apples</div><div>- Soda</div><div>- Bread</div><div>- Blank Tapes</div><div>- Cookies</div><div>- Crayons</div><div>- Eggs</div><div>- Gravy</div><div><br/></div></en-note>]]></content>
<created>20101211T021648Z</created>
<updated>20101211T021858Z</updated>
<tag>List</tag><tag>Food</tag>
<author>asimpleuser@simperium.com</author>
<note-attributes/>
</note>
</en-export>
The import process parses the following elements.
entry - an individual note.updated - last modification time.content - note contents.category - specifying scheme of http://schemas.google.com/g/2005/label will specify a tag.