Evernote – Get Plain Text of Selected Note

Description

This AppleScript converts the HTML content of a selected Evernote item and uses textutil to render it as plain text. The plain text is then stored in the variable "plain_Text".

The Code

(*
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Evernote - Get Plain Text of Selected Note
Version 1.0
October 6, 2011

Project Status, Latest Updates, and Comments Collected at:
http://veritrope.com/code/evernote-get-plain-text-of-selected-note

// CHANGELOG:

1.0 Initial Version


// NOTES:

This AppleScript converts the HTML content of a selected Evernote item ¬
and uses textutil to render it as plain text.

The plain text is stored in the variable "plain_Text".

*)


(*
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// MAIN PROGRAM
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*)

tell application "Evernote"
    set the_Selection to selection
    set the_HTML to HTML content of (item 1 of the_Selection)
    set plain_Text to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of the_HTML & space & "| textutil  -convert txt  -stdin -stdout"
end tell