02 May

// AppleScript to Export a List of Titles for Notes In Evernote

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Reader JanieAngus asked if I could expand the Apple Mail-Evernote AppleScript to get list of docs in each notebook.

She wrote:

I want a list of what’s in my notebooks by title. One notebook is legal. Need to give that list to someone. Don’t know how. Another notebook for research. SO voluminous — don’t know what’s there. Want list by my side as I write. (Cuz other stuff in DevonT)

Well, Janie — I hacked up the Mail Script for you and I think it’ll do what you want!

When you run it, you’ll see a list of notebooks to choose from (à la the Original Script). Select the notebook you want to see the list for and a window will open containing the titles of all the notes within that notebook.

But that doesn’t really help you give that list to anyone else, does it? So I added in a new section to the script which allows you to save that list to a text file. The script saves the notebook name into the default file name and also the date/time the list was exported to the beginning of the text file itself.

Options to Install and Use

Just open the script and run it!;
FastScripts from Red Sweater will let you trigger the script from the keyboard! Here’s how you set it up: Copy the script or an Alias to ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Evernote. Set up your keyboard shortcut in the FastScripts Preference menu

For my FastScripts workflow, I am using ⌘ L (as in ‘List’) to run the script.

Source code and download link on the next page!

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2 Responses to “AppleScript to Export a List of Titles for Notes In Evernote”

Janieangus says:

May 3, 2009 at 10:54 am

Omigod, thank you so so sooooo much for doing this, Justin. It works. It’s perfect. I cannot thank you enough. Thank you. Thank you.

You should extend this into an iPhone app (I dont have an iPhone yet but will next iteration) because this script would be a perfect app for a consultant, or two/three person creative office, who has one person back at the shop who needs to locate a doc. Also perfect for people who useonline assistants.

Libin says he is going to amend Evernote so that working groups can have access to certain notebooks (instead of the whole world) and this is a quick easy way to locate what you need. He said this on FastCompany last year here:
http://www.fastcompany.tv/video/a-really-useful-way-take-notes

Again, I cannot thank you enough! — Janie

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- Justin says:
  
  May 3, 2009 at 11:33 am
  
  Glad you liked it! May it facilitate good research / writing for years to come! (but, hey, no pressure…)
  
  I think the current iPhone app already does the note listing but, as you rightly point out, adding “working groups” into the mix would be a killer feature. As it stands, the door to your shared notebooks are wide open; Access control would change Evernote from your “personal digital filing cabinet” into a Basecamp/Wiki-esque Information repository for your peeps. With proper access control, we could be exporting these lists as HTML and making those titles clickable!
  
  Also on my personal list would be the ability to create “aliased versions” — one of my clients likes to share *selected* info from her “TRAVEL” notebook with friends and the only way to do this inside of Evernote is to move the note itself into a shared notebook. When she’s done, she has to move it back to the local notebook. Aliases (or finally allowing people to make “nested folders” , it seems to me, would make this much easier. Que sera sera…
  
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