maboroshy/note-station-to-markdown

The cross-platform script that converts notes from Synology Note Station to markdown files

note-station-to-markdown's Issues

attachment_id in note_data.get('attachment', ''):

my first time using github or python, so go easy on me plz! I'm getting this error everytime

File "nsx2md.py", line 130, in
for attachment_id in note_data.get('attachment', ''):

TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'int'

Hi Maboroshy,

when run this script in Windows 10 and Python 3.7.3, I get following error output:

Found pandoc exe 2.7.3
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "nsx2md.py", line 66, in
if distutils.version.LooseVersion(pandoc_ver) < distutils.version.LooseVersion('1.16'):
File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.7_3.7.1008.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\distutils\version.py", line 52, in lt
c = self._cmp(other)
File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.7_3.7.1008.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\distutils\version.py", line 337, in _cmp
if self.version < other.version:
TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'int'

Can I do something to fix it or is it a problem of the code?

Problems with import-tag-to-QON.qml

I successfully installed the import-tag-to-QON.qml script. The script dialogue is telling me that the scripts seems to be valid.

However, if I click on an imported note, no tag will be created. The note starts with

Tags: tagName

It seems the image is not displaying correctly, even though the image file can be located

The image file is available in the media folder, yet it doesn't appear correctly in Obsidian. Could you investigate this problem? Thank you.

![](file://media/59661686846628447.png)

Thank you so much

Needed just this today and really appreciate that you made it and released it.

Feel free to close this issue, just wanted to say thanks.

tables containing block elements will be dropped completely from Markdown output

Unless you use the 'multiline_tables' extension to pandoc, any table containing a block element such as a DIV will be completely replaced by the string "[TABLE]", potentially causing significant data loss. Note Station apparently inserts all kinds of cruft into its tables.

Attachments are not linked correctly

Attachments seem not to be incorporated correctly. They are apparently not working for two reasons.

1. They must have an absolute path
2. Blanks need to be escaped via %20

Cannot see Pictures after Export with your Script

Hi,
first of all, thank you for your great job.
I have this issue with Pictures.
I exported all my DS Notes and then imported in Obsidian.
I can't see the pictures, when the format is like this after the export:
But if I try to link it like this ![[15101598275384230.png]], it works.
Do you habe any suggestion?
Thank you very much!
Michael

the content of markdown file only title

for example,

ex. foo_hello_world.md , it's content will be:

foo_hello_world
======

wrong "interpretation" of some media file

Wonderful script, you saved my life.
Just found some media filename were not correctly "translated". It was the case with special char in the filename with % char
ex: filename in the media folder: 5-petit-de%CC%81jeuner.png
and the link was media 5-petit-de%25CC%2581jeuner.png
as you can see the script systematically skips the 2 digits following the % char
not a big deal, but opportunity for improvement

Error on Linux

any suggestions?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "nsx2md.py", line 33, in <module>
    config_data = json.loads(nsx.read('config.json'))
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/json/__init__.py", line 312, in loads
    s.__class__.__name__))
TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'

Notestation 2.4.3-0810
Python 2.7.5
pandoc 1.12.3.1
RHEL 7.3

Really long titles crash

I have one note with a title length of 414 characters, this causes a crash on line 223 md_file_path.write_text(content, 'utf-8').

Shortening the title in the sanitise_path_string(path_str) method resolves the issue.:

    if truncate_title and len(path_str) > truncate_title_chars:
        path_str = path_str[:truncate_title_chars]

But this requires adding new settings as for example:

truncate_title = True # Catch problems with titles that are too long
truncate_title_chars = 200 # Do not allow more than X characters for a title

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

I get the error "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'" when running but it seems distulis is legacy?

https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/distutils.html

Am I doing it wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Error if attachments with identical file names

The script delivers an error if two notes have attachments, which have identical filenames.

The error message reads as follows:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "nsx2md.py", line 119, in <module> '{}/{}/{}'.format(notebook_title, media_dir, name)) FileExistsError: [WinError 183] Eine Datei kann nicht erstellt werden, wenn sie bereits vorhanden ist:

Would it be possible to change the code in a way that it attaches increasing numbers to filenames if they already exist?

Make pandoc.Wait(5) time adjustable

A few of my notes were triggering this error, which appears to be a 5s wait for pandoc to do its thing:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./nsx2md.py", line 133, in <module>
    pandoc.wait(5)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.2_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 990, in wait
    return self._wait(timeout=timeout)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.2_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 1616, in _wait
    raise TimeoutExpired(self.args, timeout)
subprocess.TimeoutExpired: Command '['pandoc', '-f', 'html', '-t', 'markdown_strict+pipe_tables-raw_html', '--wrap=none', '--atx-headers', '-o', '/var/folders/gg/8fhvnc85693bnnpcw53k1jt80000gn/T/tmpqskz8j8t', '/var/folders/gg/8fhvnc85693bnnpcw53k1jt80000gn/T/tmpvw_o1sn3']' timed out after 5 seconds

I solved it by changing the wait to 20s:

pandoc = subprocess.Popen(pandoc_args)
pandoc.wait(20)

Maybe the delay could be extended by default, or just break it out as a setting like the other options at the top of the file?

Thanks a million the script works great! I'm using it to migrate from DS Note to Joplin currently

Enhancement: Possibility to put the tags with @

When using the "@tag tagging in note text (experimental)" script in QOwnNote it is useful to import the tags directly with an @, so you could add the following:
use_at_tags = False # True when you want to use experimental @tags of QOwnNotes

Modification for the tag writing:

if note_data.get('tag', '') and use_at_tags:
            content = 'Tags: @{}  \n{}'.format(', @'.join(note_data['tag']), content)
        else:
            content = 'Tags: {}  \n{}'.format(', '.join(note_data['tag']), content)

Crash when trash is not empty

When the trash is not empty, it gives me this error on line 132:
parent_notebook = notebook_id_to_path_index[parent_notebook_id]

KeyError: '1027_#00000000'

Emptying the trash and re-exporting the notebook solves the issue.

OSError: [Errno 63] File name too long

Hi,

I got this OSError: [Errno 63] File name too long on MacOS for a file named /media/b9e5d7dfb4f4315b201e813e77057476_1_2_3_4_5_6_7_8_9_10_11_12_13_14_15_16_17_18_19_20_21_22_23_24_25_26_27_28_29_30_31_32_33_34_35_36_37_38_39_40_41_42_43_44_45_46_47_48_49_50_51_52_53_54_55_56_57_58_59_60_61_62_63_64_65_66_67_68_69_70_71_72_73_74_75_76.jpeg

Anything possible to at least skip this then? Or better rename it somehow?

Syntax Error: invalid syntax

I'm sure this is a blatant noobie error, but ... I get...

F:\nsx2md>python nsx2md.py
File "nsx2md.py", line 7

^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I'm running Win10x64 with Python37 (x64) and lastest Pandoc (x64). Both Python and Pandoc are in PATH. I tried moving the py script and the nsx file into the Python folder, but same message.

Convert to HTML?

Is there any chance to add functionality to convert NSX to HTML for subsequent importing into other applications (e.g., OneNote)?

Convert Notes with tables and pictures

Converting plain text notes works quite well on Windows 11, but I'm currently having two problems:

1. Notes with tables
2. Notes with images/screenshots

1 Message:

Unconverted table found. Tweaking pandoc options may (or may not) allow to convert it.

How to tweek pandoc?
This error does not stop the conversion.

2 Message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Lagavulin\Documents\Einstellungen\NAS\Notes\nsx2md.py", line 236, in
link_path = urllib.request.pathname2url(link_path).replace('///', '')
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^.
File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.12_3.12.752.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Lib\nturl2path.py", line 73, in pathname2url
raise OSError(error)
OSError: Bad path: media/2456https://static.tp-link.com/image023_1493261584939q.png

This error is particularly annoying because it aborts the conversion.
It would be helpful if, when an error occurs, the conversion would skip the erroneous note and continue with the next one. Then, if necessary, I would copy the incorrect notes by hand.

Thanks again for having a look in this.

Tables

Hi, great script! Question, are tables expected to be converted to [TABLE] with discarded content? If not, are you planning to implement table conversion, or at least embed its content between code tags perhaps?

Only title instead of note

The converted files only contain the title of the note, not the content.
NSX attached renamed as ZIP.
20240331_144226_11102_Lagavulin.zip
Thanks for having a look at this.

List notes that are not converted

After the script completes I get the message:

Converted 16 notebooks and 371 out of 384 notes. Press Enter to quit...

Is it possible to get more info about what was not converted? Thanks!