Exporting Box Notes to Plain Text Files

Is it possible to build an Atom plugin to parse "boxnote" files? That would be a cheaper way than building from scratch, an export functionality, no?

And: is there a way to obtain source code for Box Notes (App)?

Hi,

There is no Box notes API available as of yet, so you cannot convert box Notes to plain text. 

I was wondering why you would need to "backup" Box notes. I personally use Box itself as a Backup for my data, and  you seem like you are going the other way around. Just curios on what would be your requirement here.

And I think Box Notes software is not Open Source so, I think the "code" is not available. 

thanks, 

Bibek

Hey -- I encountered this problem as well, so I built a tool that handles this export. Check it out. Hoping for an official solution!

https://github.com/alexwennerberg/boxnotes2html

Hi guys,

How can i using the Java or C# to get boxnotes content？

If you copy-and-paste a Note to text, you lose lists, because of the way they're implemented.

I'd like to thank  for largely figuring out the "attribs" encoding -- with that, I was able to write a Java class to convert Box Notes JSON to plain text, which is what I need for my purposes.

It handles numbered and bulleted lists, including nested lists (though the actual bullet or number format used doesn't match Box's for nested lists).

   https://github.com/jessepav/boxtools

The BoxNote.java class should be usable or extensible in other projects.

   https://github.com/jessepav/boxtools/blob/master/src/com/elektrika/boxtools/BoxNote.java

My version depends on minimal-json and Apache Commons lang3.

Jesse

Hi! Just to add my own answer to this, since I just found this thread and I am also wondering an easy way to do this. I am a recently graduated university student, and my university provides all students with a free Box account, but deletes it 14 days after graduation. I am trying to move all my documents to my personal OneDrive account, but I’m unsure what to do with the Box Notes.

I already have 7 other cloud storage accounts from 4 different companies. I don’t need another cloud storage account, nor do I want one. I’ve liked Box, so I might return at some point, but in the meantime, I’d like to access my Box Notes without all the hassle.

I have discovered that any old text editor can open the files and the text is all there, but the file is full of all the metadata and it looks awful for a layman (very HTMLy, which I don’t want). I don’t want to do anything fancy here (I don’t code nor do I want to, unless it’s a simple copypaste or plugin install). I might just have to deal with the metadata and cut it out myself so the notes don’t look so awful. I just wish there was a native way to convert notes to a text document or to Apple Notes or anything else like that. I can add them to Apple Notes, but they all have the same text doc issue. It really feels like an oversight on Box’s part, because what if someone wanted to expand on a document they started in Notes? Even Google’s Keep Notes can be converted to Google Docs. It’s really not a big ask.