Comments on: DEVONthink to Evernote Exporter Applescript

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:33:35 +0000

Hi Jonathan,

You’re running an older version of DEVONthink Pro, which would explain the tag error.

The title code addition is a great idea and I’ll add it in to the next build! Thanks for pitching in and helping to improve the AppleScript.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:18:23 +0000

Hi, I ran into some trouble with the script in two places, going from DevonThink 1.5.4 to Evernote 3.0.2.

1. I haven’t used tags, and for some reason that was giving me an error, so I commented out the “if exists tags of this_item then” block and just left in the “set theTags to defaultTag” line.

2. When loading raw text into DT, I often used scripts and sometimes the entering script would set the name of the DT item to be the entire entered text. If the name is too long, the export to Evernote script causes Evernote to crash because it sets the Evernote title to the DT name and it’s too long. I didn’t do an exhaustive test, I found that 195 characters was safe, and that seemed like plenty enough for me. So I added the following code right after the line “set thename to (the name of this_item)”:

if length of thename > 195 then
set thename to texts 1 thru 195 of thename
end if

By: Justin Burt

Justin Burt — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:20:53 +0000

I indeed have the latest copies of both of these software titles. The import seems to be working now with a different set of files. Not sure what the issue was. Sorry for the stir

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:29:33 +0000

You anticipated my first question nicely, Justin!

Second question: Have you also upgraded DEVONthink Pro to version 2.2? (I just successfully ran the script using OS X 10.7 / DEVONthink Pro 2.2 / Evernote 2.2.3 )

By: Justin Burt

Justin Burt — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:15:31 +0000

Should mention this is after upgrading to LION

By: Justin Burt

Justin Burt — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:12:11 +0000

This script no longer works, it just freezes after specifying the accepting new book and Evernote. anybody else getting this hang?

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:46:58 +0000

While I’d always appreciate a donation to the two groups that I’m assisting in Laos, it wouldn’t really expedite things. I am updating many scripts right now (including this one) and am pushing them out as fast as I can!

I’d recommend subscribing to the Twitter feed to be notified of the new version as soon as it’s online…

By: Tellef

Tellef — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 20:32:01 +0000

Anything I can do to speed up the process? Donation?

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:31:15 +0000

Thanks for this suggestion — I am going to add it to my list of things to look at for an upcoming revision of this script!

By: Tellef

Tellef — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:48:37 +0000

Would it be possible to transfer also the ‘created date’ from Devon>Think notes til evernote?