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AppleScript script to read a text file and import each line as a note into Evernote
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example of using AppleScript to read a text file with 4 tab delimited fields in it, echo each field in each line and then send that | |
entry as a new note into Evernote in the notebook called ImportedNotes | |
Field 1 is just a record number and is not inserted into the note | |
Field 2 is treated as an Evernote tag (will also be tagged with 'imported_from_notes') | |
Field 3 is the text of the note | |
Field 4 is a timestamp in the format of mm/dd/yyyy, the note creation and modification dates will be set to this | |
example input lines (tabs between each field): | |
1 field2 field3 10/12/2009 | |
2 field2 field3 10/22/2009 | |
Some of how this was done was found at this link https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/4046-importing-from-apple-mailapps-notes/page-2 | |
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set myfile to "notes2.txt" -- input file | |
set tid to AppleScript's text item delimiters -- preserve initial text delimiters | |
set allRecords to read myfile using delimiter linefeed -- read file | |
repeat with aRecord in allRecords -- iterate on each line read from file | |
if length of aRecord is greater than 0 then -- ignore null lines | |
set text item delimiters to tab -- prepare to parse line using tab | |
set theTextItems to text items of aRecord -- parse line into fields | |
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tid -- restore text delimiters | |
log "item number: " & item 1 of theTextItems | |
log " tag: " & item 2 of theTextItems | |
log " item text: " & item 3 of theTextItems | |
log " item timestamp: " & item 4 of theTextItems | |
set theDate to item 4 of theTextItems | |
tell application "Evernote" | |
set myNote to create note with text item 2 of theTextItems title item 2 of theTextItems notebook "ImportedNotes" tags ["imported_from_notes", item 2 of theTextItems] | |
set the HTML content of myNote to item 3 of theTextItems | |
set the creation date of myNote to (date theDate) | |
set the modification date of myNote to (date theDate) | |
end tell | |
end if | |
end repeat |
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