My jaw almost reached the floor when I saw those words in Catalan language!! (M’has deixat bocabadat!!)

Today something I read some weeks ago dawned on me. I read about this app called Hazel (http://www.noodlesoft.com/hazel.php) which is intended to monitor your hard drive for a certain pattern, and once something matches one of your rules, it automagically performs a custom action.

I could have it monitor my Evernote folder and then grab only my pdf files and drop them into a particular folder… eeeuuummm, I have to think about this.

Regarding your script for overcoming Evernote Mac lack of Watched Folders, I actually stumbled upon this article looking up information about Evernote Watched Folders in the Evernote forum The script is pretty cool, but I struggle a lot when trying to bend my own workflow to match what your script enables… If I recall it correctly, your script uploads all what it comes across to Evernote (local notebooks can’t be accessed, can they?).

Regarding translating the tools, why not? I imagine you can access my email address… drop me a line or two!

Thanks a lot for your prompt answers

You are looking at Evernote’s own local directory, which is not really intended for direct access by users. (This is why you are seeing a file structure which is not friendly to us humans!)

I can think of two suggestions…

1. Even though the Mac version of Evernote doesn’t have “Watched Folders”, I made my own workflow using Mac’s “Folder Actions” to try and duplicate this function. You can scan your files into your own folder structure and then copy the folder into this Watched Folder to import to Evernote;
2. You can use Evernote’s export function to periodically archive your items as I described in my earlier response.

Please let me know if this works for you — and if you’re interested in helping to translate some of these tools and instructions for your fellow Mac users!

I’m afraid that not being a native speaker isn’t helping me much for I don’t think I made myself clear.

Just do this. Browse: /Users/[user]/Library/Application Support/Evernote/data and you will see the randomly named file structure that I’m referring to.

I just wish I could find a script that I could periodically run in order to generate a organized folder structure with my order and not theirs. I want the folders to use note names. Why? because I’m paranoid about not being able to access my notes unless I don’t use the Evernote client…

Lets say that even since I migrated to Mac -folder watch is not available for the Mac world to my bitter surprise- I have broken my workflow, which previously relied on scanning files locally and have the Evernote client import them. That allowed me to keep my order in my scanned files.

Now, since watched folders isn’t an option, I upload the files to Evernote directly (when they don’t contain important information) and therefore I’m pretty dependent on their will.

I hope this time I managed to describe my problem.

Thanks,

First off — my apologies! You’re correct in saying that the “Save Attachments” feature isn’t in the App Store version of Evernote yet. (I usually try to double-check my advice against both versions, but I was answering you from the road and have the Beta version on my MacBook!)

Now that I’m back in NYC, I’m in front of the App Store version… so let’s dig in!:

1. I’m not seeing the “random naming” here — Evernote asks me to choose an export folder. Once I do, it exports all the items as HTML files named after the title of the note. If that note has attachments, it also creates a “resources folder” which is also named after the note’s title.
2. The export process also creates a file called “index.html”, which is a page with links to each item.

To write a script which archives every single item in Evernote into different folders becomes more complicated: Evernote has to export everything into a main export folder first and then the script would have to sort files into individual folders. You’d also have to decide how to handle notes with the same name (i.e., “Untitled”) and, depending on if you wanted to mirror the structure inside your Evernote collection, whether or not to further sub-divide the folders into notebook folders.

If enough people ask for it, I may try to write something like this. (Of course, you can also commission it for the community if you don’t feel like waiting!)

One more thing — I want everyone to feel welcome here and to share and to benefit from our community, and so I am working on making Veritrope.com friendlier to readers who aren’t native English speakers. If you (or anyone else reading this) wouldn’t mind sharing some thoughts on this project, could you please let me know via the Contact Form or by sending me a message on Twitter?

Even if I ever manage to get that feature working, that won’t solve completely my problem because it needs some manual interaction…

Let me explain. This is what I’m looking for: I want to find a way to periodically export all my notes and attachments and store every note with its attachments in a different folder named after the name of the note. This is pretty much what the Evernote App does, but it uses some sort of random name convention for privacy reasons I imagine…

If anything is unclear, just let me know. Not being a native speaker represents quite of a challenge when trying to get to the point.

Evernote recently added the ability to save multiple attachments without the need for an AppleScript!

Highlight the items you want the attachments for and you should see an option to save those attachments directly:

Following your suggestion, I leave a comment requesting your help. Do you think your script could be modified so that what I requested in the user forum could be performed?

http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/22349-extracting-attachments-from-my-notes/page__fromsearch__1

I was pointed to this resource, and even though it is very cool, it is not exactly what I was looking for (It is close though)

Thanks