How to import google keep notes into carnet?

brimwats · March 29, 2020, 5:53pm

I’ve exported my google keep notes from google and I was wondering if it was possible to export it into carnet? I see the option for doing it on desktop, but the desktop version for Windows does not appear to be available. I tried compliling the Appimage to work on Windows Subsystem for Linux but that did not work either. Any thoughts?

jhonasn · November 11, 2020, 2:41am

Hey, I don’t know canet but I imported the google keeps backup recently, I haven’t found a ready solution so i created a script to export to nextcloud notes format (a bunch of markdown files separeted by folder), if it could help you here is the script:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/jhonasn/479f28360041834a064163352d06e9fc

convert-keep-notes-to-md.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

# from pdb import set_trace as bkp
from sys import argv, exit
from os import listdir, path, mkdir
from json import loads as to_dict
from datetime import datetime as date

if '-h' in argv or '--help' in argv:
  print('''

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You will need python 3 to run it. here’s some tips to use it:

# give permission to execute
chmod +x convert-keep-notes-to-md.py
# run helper
./convert-keep-notes-to-md.py -h
# the configuration that i used was that
./convert-keep-notes-to-md.py -p -l -s

brimwats · November 11, 2020, 8:31am

this is fantastic! thank you for sharing!

JimmyKater · November 11, 2020, 8:41am

has someone tried app google migration under nc20+?

axo · January 14, 2021, 4:11am

Hi. I was looking to transfer my google keep data to nextcloud.
Ill update this post with a solution as of today.

Get your keep data from takeout.google.com (i exported a zip file and it worked perfect)
Install the Carnet app on your nextcloud instance.
Go to carnet settings in Nextcloud and there is the magic option:

Import your stuff and voila

Manage the location of your imported notes. They will be under Files>Documents>QuickNote>Keep

HedoNNN · November 4, 2021, 4:02pm

I can’t make it work.
Stuck at step 4. Import your stuff and voila

First, why do I have the option to choose between:

Once the archive is downloaded:

 Google Keep
 Carnet

I guess I should choose Google Keep obviously, then what? Import the file named archive_browser.html ?

When I do so I end up with a blank window and nothing seems to happen.

fellow-human · December 7, 2021, 1:50pm

Hello,

I can confirm that the import function is working!
It worked well to importing a few hundreads of Keep notes into Carnet!

I had to unzip the google takeout archive, find the Keep folder and recreate an archive with the following folder structure, in which I copy pasted only my Keep notes. Next I created a zip file and imported the archive using the “Import From Google Keep (Beta)” function, as showed above by a colleague.

So make sure that your notes from Keep are stored in an .zip archive that has this folder structure:

Takeout
|------------ Keep |
|------------------------and in this folder you will have all the keep notes and attachments.

Hope it helps!
Thanks to everyone that contributes!

snoocer · July 15, 2022, 8:00am

Just to make clear, you need to export the .zip-file in English. Make sure yous see the takeout-website not in your local-language.
Then, take the .zip-file and choose Google Keep while importing.

Regards

Asiak · March 11, 2023, 8:57am

If you arent able to change your language you can rename te folder inside the zip file to Keep.
Zipfile/Takeout/‘name_in your_languaje’ to Zipfile/Takeout/Keep
it worked for me.