notestation-to-joplin

Imports a Synology Note Station .nsx file into Joplin notes app

Attention: This repo is not actively maintained anymore!

Installing this Python script

• Download this repository or clone it to your project directory via
  git clone https://github.com/KraxelHuber/notestation-to-joplin.git or
  git clone [email protected]:KraxelHuber/notestation-to-joplin.git if you set up SSH keys.
• Make sure to pip install the following packages from https://pypi.org/
  • httpx (https://pypi.org/project/httpx/)
  • pandoc (https://pypi.org/project/pandoc/)
  • joplin-api (https://pypi.org/project/joplin-api/)

Getting your notes out of Synology's Note Station into Joplin note taking app

Step 1: Export your notes

• Open your Synology Note Station app in DSM.
• At the top of Note Station, click Settings.
• Under Import and Export, click Export to launch the export wizard.
• Follow the wizard instructions to export your notebooks.
• Save your .nsx file into /notestation_to_joplin/src/

Step 2:

• Open Joplin notes app
• Go to Tools/Options/Web Clipper
• Copy authorization token

Step 3:

• Open /src/nsx2joplin.py within your project folder.
• Replace nsx_file = p.joinpath("notestation-test-books.nsx") with your .nsx file
  nsx_file = p.joinpath("YOUR_NSX_FILE")
• At the end of the script, replace the line joplin_token = "" with your token:
  joplin_token = "PASTE_YOUR_TOKEN_HERE"

Step 4:

• Run the script (your Joplin app needs to be open).

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This script is partly based on the great work of @Maboroshy script, which converts a .nsx file into markdown: Note-Station-to-markdown

Also, it makes use of the very good joplin-api project of @foxmask: joplin-api