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If you mean which services I went to, I pulled the plug on proprietary or at least non-open-source services and walled gardens. I'm now using GitLab Pages to host both my blog and the notes I had there. I use Sphinx to manage structure and templating.

I have created a /notes folder which gets made available under the same domain ( https://jdsalaro.com/blog/category/notes/ ) which will contain all stuff I had in Evernote.

The content of my Evernote account is exported via the API and each note put into a note.md file with the first line as title, tags ( private, note) and "inferred" headings.

Within that folder there's a /private one which never gets built ( using tox ) nor published to the public version of my blog. There's a separate GitLab pipeline which only builds /private and makes it available under Gitlab pages but uses another non-public project, so you need to be logged in and a member of the repo to be able to see it.

The good thing is that I can read them everywhere and if necessary edit stuff via mobile ( Browser tab with GitLab VS Code IDE added to home screen or Labcoat )

Since everything is backed up using git, both the public and private versions, I don't have to worry about losing data.

Cool side-effects are that I've started using and understanding Sphinx to manage the structure and templating and even started poking around helping with the project ( https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-external-toc/issue... )

Really, we had the power all along but became complacent. We've got to be the change we want to see on the internet.



Do you have a copy of the script you used to export all your notes?

I'm currently faced with this existential problem myself.


I can certainly put it online if you want to have a look at it. It's very hacky, though, as I'll hopefully never need it again.

Today I was about to go on a small vacation, so no laptop. Where can I ping you when I've uploaded it? ( or you can ping me, info in my profile )

Have you tried using the export function and just processing that? That's also an alternative that has worked for friends ( the HTML export one )


Shoot me an email at govind <at> automorphic <dot> ai




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