週休3日サラリーマン wrote the switch on 17 December 2023. Evernote had just tightened the free plan. He used it every day for blog drafts and stored text. He would not pay a company he no longer trusted.
He picked Notion without a bake-off. Notion was advertising an Evernote importer at the time. The move was the importer, not an ENEX file.
If you are looking at the same route, start with the Evernote → Notion playbook. His archive was almost only text. That is why the clock looks short.
What he clicked
New Notion account. Import in the left menu. Evernote as the source.
He did not type an Evernote password. Both accounts used the same email, and the link just worked. He called that surprising. I would still expect an OAuth prompt on most accounts.
Clicks took under five minutes. The import ran about ten minutes for roughly 1,000 notes.
Notebooks, notes, and tags came across. He checked the data and did not find a broken note.
What the archive did not contain
No image embeds. No headings. No bullets. URL links, yes. Pure text drafts.
The only glitch he named was empty lines getting stripped. He accepted it.
iPhone, Mac, and web clients were fine. No device cap, which is the limit that had just bitten him on Evernote. Response time felt fast.
He did not use reminders, tasks, or shared notebooks in Evernote, so this post cannot tell you what happens to those. The playbook already flags them.
Do not generalize the ten minutes
A thousand text notes is the happy path. Attachments, OCR, table-heavy notes, and giant notebooks are a different import.
Peter Quiel and Takao both needed extra tools to get a complete Evernote export into Obsidian. Notion’s importer hid that work here because the source was small and plain.
If your vault has PDFs or a 3,000-note notebook, run a pilot on that notebook first. Time the import on the worst folder, not the cleanest one.
What I would copy
Use the native Evernote importer if you already want Notion and the notes are text. Keep Evernote up until you open a known draft and see the tag still on it.
If empty lines matter for how you write, check one note before you delete the source. That was his only formatting loss, and he noticed it.
The Evernote → Notion playbook is the checklist for tags, attachments, and the things this importer skips. Use his post only for the text-only case.