Comments on: Evernote Export to RTF Applescript

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 03:14:07 +0000

Hi Ralph!

It may be possible any of these… but the first two are a little complicated from a scripting point-of-view: I’ve been messing around with using OpenMeta (e.g., tags written to file metadata)… and trying to pull that off using only standard AppleScript — so far with mixed results. I’m still working on it!

The Date Modified may not be achievable, but I think the Date Creation may well be.

Adding the into directly to the file is much easier! If enough people ask, I’ll take some time and add it in!

By: Ralph

Ralph — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:37:03 +0000

Justin -

In thinking about this, the most useful output would be if each RTF file’s Date Modified reflected what is shown for that Note in Evernote.

Tags (and maybe also Date Created) should be written to the file metadata in the same way that programs such as Notational Velocity (mac) and ResophNotes (win) sync tags with SimpleNote.

Another option would be the tags could all be listed in the first or last line of the note itself, separated by spaces, so they could be searched

Hope that make sense.

Ralph

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 08:48:01 +0000

Thanks Ralph!

Question: How would you like to see that work? Where would the tags/date created go?

By: Ralph

Ralph — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 05:54:28 +0000

Awesome script! Thanks for writing and supporting this
invaluable tool. Didnt notice this in the comments – is it possible
to preserve TAGS on exported notes? What about the Date Created?
Thanks, Ralph S.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:15:21 +0000

I’ll keep my eyes open for something….

By: OogieM

OogieM — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 01:49:52 +0000

I’m on 10.5.8 and can’t upgrade at this time :sigh:

ANy ideas on a workaround?

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 01:07:06 +0000

As of version 10.6.5, things are fine for me…

Give it a shot and let us know your experience!

By: OogieM

OogieM — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 01:01:40 +0000

Any info on a possible solution to the black background problem yet.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:41:47 +0000

Hi Peter,

That link was very helpful!

While it looks likely that we’ll have to wait for the mentioned Apple bug fix to be released, there may be a way to write the background color into the converted file with some Script-fu… I am planning on an update to this script very soon anyways, so I’ll take a swing at it when I do.

Who knows — maybe we’ll get lucky!

And should you come across any additional information in the interim, please come back here and share it with us!

By: Peter Norman

Peter Norman — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:48:52 +0000

I just found a discussion thread on Apple’s forums that talks about a possible bug (separate from the one fixed by Safari 5.01) that may impact this black background issue in the Evernote To RTF Export script:

Here is the link in case it might help your troubleshooting:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12027623

Thanks again!
-peter