Delicious is going into disrepair, so I needed to find another home for my bookmarks. The transfer to Evernote was causing me headaches (since most things I found online no longer worked) so when I figured it out, I thought I'd document how I got it to work, for posterity.
Take Delicious bookmarks with tags, and create a new Bookmarks notebook in Evernote (basic/free version) which contains a new note for each old bookmark, with tags intact.
- Export bookmarks from Delicious
- I had found a blog post from 2010 saying to export your bookmarks using the old API (by doing
curl https://USERNAME:[email protected]/v1/posts/all) but realized that the API isn't working any longer. - Solution:
- Log into
Delicious > Profile > Export(or this direct link), click Export. This will give you a "bookmark-formatted" HTML file.
- Log into
- Convert the Delicious HTML file to an Evernote XML file
- I had found another blog post from 2014 for this, but it did weird stuff creating subfolders for tags that I didn't want. I wanted all notes in a single notebook, no subfolders, each with its correct tags.
- Also, some of my bookmarks exported with empty tags, which crashed Evernote during import, so I fixed that by either using a special new tag (if the bookmark's only tag was empty) or by ignoring it (if it had other tags anyway).
- Solution:
- Use this modified fiddle instead. Save the resulting XML as a file with a
.enexextension. - Make sure it doesn't contain any empty attributes like
<tag></tag>or otherwise.
- Use this modified fiddle instead. Save the resulting XML as a file with a
- Import the XML file in Evernote
- In Evernote, do
File > Import Notes...and select your.enexfile. - It should create a new Notebook with the name of your file, and put the new bookmarks/notes in there. I renamed the Notebook to "Bookmarks". Then it asks if you want the Notebook to be synched or only local (I chose synched, cuz that's the point, no?).
That's all, folks!
@fabnoe same issue here :-(