Moving your data from one program to another rarely goes according to plan. (It’s right up there with Moore’s Law as a “techie true-ism”!)

So recently, I’ve been hearing that some new Evernote users who are trying to get their notes in from other note-taking programs are having a hard time getting their exported TXT or RTF files to format correctly inside of Evernote.

Import/Export is one of the spots where Evernote still lags behind the competition — but maybe we can find a way to improve the current situation ourselves…
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I saw a Tweet from Scott Paterson, asking if there was an AppleScript to quickly batch export Notes from Apple Mail into individual text file.

Well Scott — If there wasn’t one before, there is now!

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• Say Hello to the New Evernote for Windows « Evernote Blogcast
  Evernote for Windows Gets a Final Release of a makeover that makes it more Mac-like.
  (Via blog.evernote.com )
• How To Encrypt Evernote On Mac OSX | DocumentSnap
  How To Encrypt Evernote (and its database) on a Mac…. Part 2 of a series that began with how to encrypt Evernote information in WIndows.
  (Via www.documentsnap.com )
• Dead Simple Task Management with Evernote — Brett Kelly Dot Org
  Brett Kelly shares his techniques for using Evernote as a his task manager.  Remember Brett — Command+Shift+T is your friend!
  (Via brettkelly.org )
• Phil Libin (plibin) on Twitter
  Phil Libin (CEO of Evernote) fielded users questions on his Twitter page for a couple of hours today and gave some clues for features arriving in 2010.
  (Via twitter.com )
• Personal Technology: A Review of Evernote – WSJ.com
  Walter Mossberg catches up to what everyone here already knows.
  (Via online.wsj.com )

Veritrope.com reader Alan emails this afternoon with a question:

“I am currently using Notespark and I would like to use Evernote. Notespark exports its files to .csv format while Evernote expects to import using an .enex file. Can you steer me in the right direction to help me to export from Notespark and import to Evernote?”

Well, Alan — As you’ve already figured out, the Notespark system doesn’t exactly make this easy….. but here are a few ideas:
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(Happy Thanksgiving to Veritrope.com’s USA Readers!)

• GrowDeep: Capuring Creative Ideas with EverNote
  “Imperative to the creative process of a communicator, or anyone for that matter, is developing a system that allows you to capture thoughts, ideas, inspirations, and the like. 
All of the world is a canvas and each individual is an interesting story to be read.”
  (Via growdeep.blogspot.com )
• Using Evernote as a Design Scrapbook / journal / hicksdesign
  Another related post from the HICKSDESIGN blog about using Evernote as a collection point for design scraps. I think this is a fantastic use of Evernote and, when coupled with applications like Curio makes creating a “mood board” stupendously easy.
  (Via hicksdesign.co.uk )
• How to Search Evernote « ten mov.es
  A very good primer on Evernote Search techniques!
  (Via tenmov.es )
• Using Evernote to Blog One Step Ahead of Yourself
  Written by Kristen Nicole (a bit of an über-blogger herself), this is a short piece about how to leverage platforms like Evernote into capturing more “bloggable” material. (She’s preaching to the converted here!)
  (Via www.bloggingtips.com )
• How to Use Evernote to Create the Ultimate Post Conference Reference Guide
  Michael Gray on how he uses Evernote to keep track of, organize, find, and use the information that he collects from conferences, trade shows, and seminars.
  (Via www.wolf-howl.com )
• Google Wave Gadget For Evernote
  A Google gadget to connect Evernote with iGoogle, Gmail, Google Wave, etc.
  (Via blog.arpitnext.com )
• Evernote User Forum • View topic – Sign in problems still exist in 1.6.0 beta 5
  A heads up for Evernote/Mac Users who download the latest beta revisions: The 1.6 beta changes the way Evernote handles the Mac keychain (a.k.a., Application Signing) and many users are reporting issues with being forced to log in everytime they start the app. Seeing some Twitter traffic that suggests that the issue continues in 1.6.0 beta 6 as well — FYI!
  (Via forum.evernote.com )