Evernote – Auto-Tag by Author

Description

Do you use Evernote's email feature to have receipts or email notifications sent directly to your Evernote notebook? (Brett Kelly's eBook, "Evernote Essentials" provides a solid guide to how this works -- along with some other great tips -- in the chapter called "Evernote, Email and You" )

Inspired by this question on Quora, I whipped up this script which quickly tags or untags all items created by a selected "author" (for example, a note with a Quora email return address).)

INSTRUCTIONS

This script looks for the Author Name in the Clipboard, so you can speed things up by first selecting a note you know was created by the "Author" you're looking for. Look inside the Note's information (the lowercase "i" in the note window) and then select and copy the Author Name to the Clipboard before running the script. (Of course, you can type it in as well). If the script finds notes matching that Author name, you'll then be able to type in the tags you'd like to add or remove from those items!

The Code

(*
Veritrope.com
Evernote - Author Tagger
Version 1.0
January 28, 2012

// SCRIPT INFORMATION AND UPDATE PAGE
http://veritrope.com/code/evernote-tag-author

// REQUIREMENTS
More details on the script information page.

//CHANGELOG
1.0   INITIAL RELEASE

// RECOMMENDED INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
This script looks for the Author Name in the Clipboard, so copy the Author Name to it before
running the script. (You can type it in as well). If it finds notes matching that name,
you can type in the tags you'd like to add or remove from those items!
*)

(*
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// OTHER PROPERTIES (USE CAUTION WHEN CHANGING)
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*)
property DialogTitle : "Tag Evernote Items By Author"

(*
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// MAIN PROGRAM
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*)

set defaultTag to the clipboard

--ENTER AUTHOR NAME (DEFAULT: CLIPBOARD)
set author_Result to (display dialog "Enter the name of the author" with title DialogTitle default answer defaultTag with icon path to resource "Evernote.icns" in bundle (path to application "Evernote"))
set author_Name to (text returned of author_Result)
set author_Search to ("author:"" & author_Name & """) as string
set defaultTag to ""

--GET LIST OF ITEMS MATCHING AUTHOR NAME
tell application "Evernote"
    set noteList to find notes (author_Search)
end tell

--IF ITEMS FOUND, THEN ENTER TAGS
if (count of noteList) is greater than 0 then
    display dialog "Enter Tags You'd Like To Assign or Remove Separated By Commas" with title DialogTitle default answer defaultTag buttons {"Assign", "Remove", "Cancel"} default button "Assign" cancel button "Cancel" with icon path to resource "Evernote.icns" in bundle (path to application "Evernote")
    set dialogresult to the result
    set userInput to text returned of dialogresult
    set ButtonSel to button returned of dialogresult
    set theDelims to {","}
   
    --ASSEMBLE TAGS FROM INPUT
    set EVTag to my Tag_List(userInput, theDelims)
   
    --FINAL CHECK AND FORMATTING OF TAGS
    set final_Tag_List to my Tag_Check(EVTag)
   
    --ADD OR REMOVE THE TAGS
    if ButtonSel is "Assign" then
        tell application "Evernote"
            assign final_Tag_List to noteList
        end tell
    else if ButtonSel is "Remove" then
        tell application "Evernote"
            unassign final_Tag_List from noteList
        end tell
    end if
   
    --ELSE IF ITEMS NOT FOUND...
else
    display dialog "No Items Found for Author!" with title DialogTitle with icon path to resource "Evernote.icns" in bundle (path to application "Evernote")
end if
(*
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/// TAGGING SUBROUTINES
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*)
--CREATES TAGS LIST
on Tag_List(userInput, theDelims)
    set oldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
    set theList to {userInput}
    repeat with aDelim in theDelims
        set AppleScript's text item delimiters to aDelim
        set newList to {}
        repeat with anItem in theList
            set newList to newList & text items of anItem
        end repeat
        set theList to newList
    end repeat
    return theList as list
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims
end Tag_List

--CREATES TAGS IF THEY DON'T EXIST
on Tag_Check(theTags)
    tell application "Evernote"
        set finalTags to {}
        repeat with theTag in theTags
            if (not (tag named theTag exists)) then
                set makeTag to make tag with properties {name:theTag}
                set end of finalTags to makeTag
            else
                set end of finalTags to tag theTag
            end if
        end repeat
    end tell
    return finalTags
end Tag_Check