Comments on: Evernote to MacJournal AppleScript

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:22:22 +0000

Hi Mark,

Looking back through the code, I think it’s a glitch… and in any event, it certainly isn’t a desirable result!

Not sure if and when I’ll be able to take a closer look, though:
I’m not a MacJournal User, so I used a trial version to quickly develop this script for people who wanted to move their notes into it. That trial has expired, so I’ve recently sent some Twitter messages to ask Mariner Software to provide a Developer’s License so I can maintain this script. So far, I haven’t heard back — but if they do, I’ll take a look and see if I can adjust the script to capture both the PDF and the text. (You can contact them as well if you’d like!)

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:24:17 +0000

I’ve tried to do this on Evernote Version 3.0.6 (221382). I have a lot of notes to migrate (about 1000) and a fair number of them have embedded PDF’s. My observations are as follows:
1) Text notes migrate without issue
2) Notes with text and pictures will migrate without issue
3) Notes with a mixture of text and embedded PDFs will migrate, but only the PDF will show up in the MacJournal note; the text is lost

Is this expected behavior?

Note that when I create a new MacJournal note, I can add text and then drop in PDFs without an issue (as you would expect to be able to do).

By: Keizo

Keizo — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:12:23 +0000

I tried this scripts on Evernote 3.0.6 Beta 1 (214012) and MacJournal 6.0.1. Unfortunately it didn’t work. I had the dialog which is bellow.
https://img.skitch.com/20120103-pixeys4btncje4ys8efy4qn8b.png

Is it possible to fix it ?

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By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:46:51 +0000

Dale,

Thank you very much for the kind words and — what’s more — for taking the time to roll up your sleeves and make the code better. This is exactly the spirit I’ve been working to create here at Veritrope.com!

In fact, your contribution reminded me of something that I had meant to ask Dan Schimpf (MacJournal’s Developer): “Any plans to make tags readable and writable via AppleScript?”. As it stands, they aren’t — but if you use any one the other Evernote scripts here, you’ll know that I’ve already developed a fairly solid “tagging subroutine” that I could drop into this script in a matter of minutes (were AppleScript support for tags in MacJournal to be enabled).

Anyhow, I’ve emailed Dan and, once I hear from him, I’ll pass along his response if anyone here is interested…

By: Dale Francum

Dale Francum — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:29:54 +0000

Justin,

This is great, really nicely done. Thanks very much.

In case this is helpful to anyone else, I like to tag the notes I import, so I added this line to your script in two places:

add tag "Evernote import" to resultObject

This is placed after the two blocks containing this code:

repeat with noteTag in noteTags
add tag noteTag to resultObject
end repeat

Dale

By: bryan

bryan — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:02:16 +0000

This is great! It works perfectly!

Thank you!

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Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:57:28 +0000

[...] There are now two Evernote-to-MacJournal Exporter scripts included in the downloadable ZIP archive: One that attempts to preserve the formatting of the Evernote item by importing it into MacJournal as a Read-Only Web Archive formatted file, and another that will create an Editable RTF file that may not retain as much of the original formatting and/or embedded images. [...]

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:22:26 +0000

For now, I’ve decided to bundle two scripts into a ZIP file instead of writing the dialog box: One is identical to the 1.01 release except for being renamed the (READ ONLY) script. The other will create RTF files that you can edit inside of MacJournal and is named (EDITABLE).

Let’s see if MacJournal makes any changes in how it handles Web Archives in the near future and will potentially try to release a “unified script” again if conditions allow.

Hope you enjoy!

By: bryan

bryan — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:07:18 +0000

Hello Justin,

Thank you for tackling this problem!

My vote is for the third option: “An additional dialog box that lets you pick between the two.”

I use these journals for a variety of tasks; certain entries favor the first option, others favor the second option. So the third option would give me more control.

As for the “Can’t get item 1 of {} Error:” – I noticed that it happens more consistently when I try to transfer numerous entries at once (like ten or more). Sometimes, the error indicates it can’t get a certain entry (out of several), but if I selected it individually, it works.

Thanks again for the help!