13
Oct
NetNewsWire to Evernote — Single Headline or Tab Export Applescript
Tags: API, Applescript, Evernote, NetNewsWire
Use a Mac and want to file away the things you’re reading in NetNewsWire quickly?
Description
NetNewsWire is the heart of my browsing experience these days. I’m spending as much time reading feeds as I do browsing the web and it’s important for me to be able to keep track of the things I am reading and want to reference later.
Once Evernote enabled Applescript support, I realized that I could file away the feed items that were useful to me. Evernote is a real life-saver: It’s accessible from practically every type of computing platform short of an abacus. If you have a Mac, your notes become part of your Spotlight index. Fewer ideas and articles get lost. For someone like me who is working on a dozen different projects simultaneously, this is a real “quality of life” improvement — not just another piece of tech that leaves you less organized and your mind more cluttered.
Features
I have added tag support, which lets you tag items on the way into Evernote. The script will also retrieve an alphabetized list of your current Evernote Notebooks and allow you to select which notebook to archive the feed items into. Want to make a new notebook? No problem — the script has a “Create New Notebook” button which will let you do that on the fly!
Automatic Growl detection has also been enabled which will save you a trip to the Script Editor to enable/disable it.
Current Limitations and Open Issues
I never figured out how to successfully write the NetNewsWire item’s URL into Evernote’s “source URL” value without using the “create note from url” command. I chose to use the “create note from html” approach because the results were sometimes more visually appealing once the note arrived into Evernote. I am hopeful that this will eventually be possible;WORKING PROPERLY IN VERSION 1.01!- There is some Growl weirdness when using the “iPhone mini” skin;
- Errors that will undoubtedly arise when you do something that I didn’t think of or test for!
How to Install and Use
Just drop it into the NetNewsWire Script Folder!
FastScript link and support
Do yourself a favor and download and install FastScripts from Red Sweater. Triggering the script from the keyboard really supercharges the process — you’ll watch your news items practically fly into Evernote with a few keystrokes! Here’s how you set it up:
- Copy script or an Alias to ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/NetNewsWire
- Set up your keyboard shortcut
For my workflow, I am using ⌘ E (as in Evernote) for the quick single post script shortcut and ⌘ SHIFT E for the batch script.
Source code and download link on the next page!
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9 Responses to “NetNewsWire to Evernote — Single Headline or Tab Export Applescript”
Sweet. I’ve been waiting for this…
Thank you very much. But can you reduce the number of popups?
Which of the menu screens are you not finding useful?
Brilliant. Thanks a lot for sharing this one.
How do you enable this without installing fastscripts? I have installed it already and tested it using Applescript, but I wonder how you can activate it through NNW. Thanks. Brilliant, btw.
Hi Pearl,
If you’ve already moved the scripts into NetNewsWire’s script folder, then it should be available from the pull-down menu.
If you aren’t sure if the scripts are in the right place:
1.) Make NetNewsWire the active application by clicking anywhere in the NetNewsWire window. If it’s the active application, you’ll see the words “NetNewsWire” to the right of the Apple icon in the top-left corner of your screen;
2.) Select the script icon from the menu (it’s the symbol between “Window” and “Help”;
3.) You’ll see a drop-down list of all the scripts currently in NetNewsWire’s script folder. If the NNW-to-Evernote scripts aren’t listed, then select “Open Scripts Folder” from the menu and a Finder window will open for the Script folder;
4.) Just drag-and-drop the AppleScript files into that Finder window and the scripts will be available from the Script list!
Hope that this helps!
Justin
Great way to enhance Evernote - Thanks
This works great, thanks! It would be great of the second pop-up (notebook) would be optional so that notes are always put in the default notebook.
DONE!
Try it out and let me know what you think,
Justin
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NetNewsWire to Evernote Script: http://tinyurl.com/5g7dnd
Installed script to clip from NetNewsWire to Evernote - http://tinyurl.com/5g7dnd - and enabled custom trigger in Quicksilver. Geeky?
My #EvernoteTip @evernote - I clip from NetNewsWire to Evernote in the Mac with this script: http://tinyurl.com/5g7dnd Works great!
If you use both NetNewsWire and Evernote, this is a must-have: http://is.gd/eA3V #nnw #evernote
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