diff --git a/evernote_to_sqlite/utils.py b/evernote_to_sqlite/utils.py
index 164b8e7..398cba7 100644
--- a/evernote_to_sqlite/utils.py
+++ b/evernote_to_sqlite/utils.py
@@ -27,7 +27,11 @@ def find_all_tags(fp, tags, progress_callback=None):
 def save_note(db, note):
     title = note.find("title").text
     created = note.find("created").text
-    updated = note.find("updated").text
+    if note.find("updated") is not None:
+        updated = note.find("updated").text
+    else:
+        updated = created
+    # Some content has   which breaks the XML parser
     content_xml = resolve_entities(note.find("content").text.strip())
     content = ET.tostring(ET.fromstring(content_xml)).decode("utf-8")
     row = {