Convert LinkedIn connections or a vCard for Evergreen
Drop in a LinkedIn Connections.csv or a .vcf file from Apple Contacts and get a JSON file that Evergreen can import. The conversion happens in this browser tab. Your file is not uploaded anywhere.
Import is a Mac feature. Evergreen imports this file on the Mac, from the File menu. The iPhone and iPad apps do not import.
Contacts only. The converter creates people, not history. It cannot create meetings, calls, emails or follow-ups, and it does not guess a timeline. LinkedIn's connection date is kept as a line in each contact's notes.
Convert a file
| Name | Organization | Title | Tags |
|---|
Import it into Evergreen
- Convert your file above and download
evergreen-import.json. - In Evergreen on your Mac, choose File → Import Dataset from JSON… and pick the file.
- Look through the new contacts. The summary under the Convert button says how many contacts were found and how many rows were skipped for having no name.
Before you import
- Import once. Evergreen does not check whether a person is already in your database. Importing the same file twice adds everyone again. The Mac app has a duplicate finder if that happens.
- All or nothing. If Evergreen rejects the file, none of it is imported.
- Overdue in about 90 days. A contact with no logged interaction counts from the day it was added, and the default reminder threshold is 90 days. So roughly three months after an import, every imported contact you have not logged anything for becomes overdue at the same time. Log an interaction, or change the threshold in Evergreen's reminder settings, if you do not want that.
- Duplicates inside your file are kept. The converter does not merge people.
What gets converted
| Evergreen field | LinkedIn Connections.csv | vCard (.vcf) |
|---|---|---|
| Name | First Name + Last Name | FN, or built from N |
| Organization | Company | ORG (first part) |
| Title | Position | TITLE |
| Emails | Email Address (LinkedIn leaves many blank) | every EMAIL |
| Phones | not in the export | every TEL |
| Links | URL (the LinkedIn profile) | every URL |
| Location | not in the export | ADR: city, region, country |
| Notes | “Connected on LinkedIn: …” with the date as LinkedIn wrote it | NOTE, plus any department from ORG |
| Tags | linkedin, plus your extra tag | vcard, plus your extra tag |
| Interactions, follow-ups, activity | Not created. Left empty. | |
Rows with no name are skipped. Photos, birthdays and other vCard fields are ignored. Old vCard 2.1 files with quoted-printable text are not supported.
Privacy
This page reads the file you give it, builds the new file in memory, and hands it back as a download. It makes no network request with your contacts in it, and the page tells your browser not to allow any: its content security policy sets connect-src 'none'. It loads no analytics and no third-party scripts, fonts or images. You can check this by viewing the page source, or by turning off your internet connection and converting a file anyway.
About Evergreen
Evergreen is a personal CRM for Mac, iPhone and iPad. We have no account system and we never see your contacts. Your data lives on your device by default, and optional sync runs through your own iCloud, not our servers. The app is $9.99; Evergreen Sync is a separate optional subscription at $1.99 a month.