AppleScript that looks into the current application directory for Evernote, copies the HTML file and constituent elements, puts it in a folder named after the note, and then bundles everything up into a single Web archive file.

Judging from some of the comments that I’ve been reading on the Evernote forum, HTML export can’t get here soon enough!  And even though I’m pretty sure it’ll be officially released soon, there has to be a way that we can get the job done now, right?

Well everyone — Native HTML Export is now here! I’m leaving this page up in case:

  1. The code is helpful to someone, or
  2. People are interested in me adapting this into a “Bulk Webarchiver” (e.g., taking a bunch of Evernote items and saving them into self-contained “.webarchive” files

If you’re interested in that, leave a comment on this page! Otherwise, Evernote’s built-in exporter will probably do the trick for you….

And now….the original project below!

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Use a new Dashboard widget to monitor the size of the cache and clear it out with the push of a button when it gets too big!

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I’ve been testing out Dropbox as a way to sync my 1Password files between computers (which works really well) and, more experimentally, to share a single iTunes Library (which… doesn’t work so well).

A few days after installing it, I started getting “Your Startup Disk Is Almost Full” messages.  Having had a similar experience with a client who was backing up to Apple’s .MAC service, I quickly zeroed in on Dropbox as the culprit.  A quick bit of Google-Fu found other people having the same issue — and it also found a solution.

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The “Old Way” Vs. The “New Way”

One of my clients emailed me this morning with a question:
“Do I have fax capabilities in my Apple?”

The answer for many Mac users these days is “Not for free, you don’t…”

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Links that I thought you’d enjoy!

An AppleScript to save your Evernote items as RTF files.

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I read a post on the Evernote forum the other day from a writer who wanted to use notes from Evernote in Scrivener, a word processing/research program designed specifically for authors/screenwriters. It’s a fantastic program — the kind that really opens people’s eyes to quality of Mac applications — but it isn’t scriptable. Head Scrivener Guru Keith said in a post on his own forum this past December “Just for the record, it’s highly unlikely that Scrivener will be getting AppleScript support any time soon. It’s a big job and low down on the list – certainly it won’t be making 1.5. It is still slated for a distant future release, though!”

And though HTML export is planned for a future version of Evernote (and, perhaps, even sooner than that….), there has to be a way we can help this guy out…you know….NOW!

Now that Evernote has released native HTML export, there’s two ways to help this guy out:

  1. Have him export his files to HTML directly from Evernote (which he can then import into Scrivener’s “Research” folder and refer to as a reference), or
  2. If he needs to edit the notes inside of Scrivener, the answer is this AppleScript —  It converts notes from Evernote into Rich Text Format with Attachments (RTFD files)!  He can then import them in to Scrivener (or any other program that accepts RTF files) and edit away!

Don’t you just love AppleScript?

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