Comments on: NetNewsWire to Evernote — Single Headline or Tab Export Applescript

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:20:14 +0000

Thanks Mike!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:01:39 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks for this. I stopped using Evernote for a while but since switching to OS X I’ve given it another look. Great script you have here, it makes NNW and Evernote a pretty useful combo.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:10:15 +0000

Hi Peer,

When we were talking about “optional dialog boxes” in the thread above, it was to say that the notebook selection portion has now been streamlined into an optional feature.

If you want the script to put items into your default Evernote notebook without any tagging, you could edit out the dialog box portions of the script. If that’s not something you feel comfortable doing, you can commission a custom version from me and I’ll tailor it to your specifications!

By: Peer

Peer — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:44:35 +0000

Excellent work. But you say that the dialog boxes are optional? How do I turn them off? I would like to run the script without any further input.

By: synkuro (synkuro)

synkuro (synkuro) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:14:49 +0000

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By: joren

joren — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:03:44 +0000

Justin, Your updated script appears to work just fine! Many thanks.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:36:09 +0000

Joren,

Your tests and specifics were invaluable in quickly getting to the bottom of what was happening…. Many Thanks!

When I looked at the Lifehacker item in my debugger (as well as another Gawker Media RSS feed), I saw that the AppleScript element in NNW called (description of selectedHeadline) was empty. In AppleScript terms, this is supposed to be the “Body” of the item and the fact that it was blank is pretty perplexing.

I quickly wrote an addition to the script that creates the Evernote item with the NNW item’s “summary” data if the description data is blank. Hope that this is at least a decent work-around until we get to the bottom of things! I am going to send Brent at NetNewsWire a “bug report” in case this is related to the beta code….although it could be just the way Gawker Media formats its RSS feeds.

Download the updated script and let me know if it works for you!

By: Joren

Joren — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:10:50 +0000

I’m using the latest version of the script found on your site. I also checked my other notebooks

By: Joren

Joren — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:09:39 +0000

Ok, I ran some tests. I’m able to export a tab (I never use this since it basically exports the whole web page (in browsing mode) for that particular item, right?). I noticed that the evernote icon in my dock doesn’t bounce any more like it used to when I exported an item. I don’t know why.

Here’s the strange thing I found out. The export function (for headlines as I always use) works for certain RSS feeds but does not work for other feeds. For example, I’m able to export feeds from “David Allen Company” (again, evernote icon does not bounce) but I’m not able to export feeds from “lifehacker”.

Also, for David Allen Company I’m able to create new tags but this does not work for lifehacker.