Export list of notes to Excel

[Alagalah 0]

Evernote Version 6.9.1

OSX: 10.11.6

I have a shortcut that outputs a list of notes with following columns: title, tags, created.

I need to create a report based on this information. Excel/GoogleSheets appears to be best way of producing this report, hence I need THIS list of notes, output to Excel/CSV with just the fields above.

I tried getting a developer token and writing to the SDK / API, but this ended up opening its own can of worms.

Since Evernote doesn't seem to have any reporting capabilities (plugin/addon suggestions welcome), or suggestions of the sort "select All, Ctrl-C/V" only appear to work on the Windows client, is this something anyone has found a way of doing?

 

[DTLow 5,381]

Since you're working on a Mac, why not use Applescript

I'm interested in the shortcut you mentioned.  Can you provide more details?

[Alagalah 0]

The shortcut is a standard Evernote shortcut. 

 

Ie notes in notebook1 with any of tags [a1, a2, a3].  For that list of notes I want to report on tags [b1, b2...]

Creating a list of notes of b1 is not useful as I'm back to reporing on a1 etc. Same problem. 

Do you have an example of how applescript can help pull this information out of Evernote into either plain text or CSV?

[DTLow 5,381]

On 2016-10-02 at 11:04 AM, Alagalah said:

Do you have an example of how applescript can help pull this information out of Evernote into either plain text or CSV?

Here's something I whipped up
I'm not used to writing to files, so I just used the shell echo command; the proper method is to open the file and use a write statement
You will need to modify the search criteria, I just used tag:!Journal

 

--set theOpenedFile to open for access (path to desktop as text) & "my file.txt" with write permission

 

-- Get Notes and Process

 

tell application "Evernote"

 

    set theNotes to find notes ("tag:!Journal")

 

    repeat with theNote in theNotes

        set theTitle to title of theNote as string

        set theDate to creation date of theNote

        set theTags to tags of theNote

        

        -- Reformat tag list            

        

        set theTagcsv to ""

        repeat with theTag in theTags

            set theTagcsv to theTagcsv & name of theTag & ", "

        end repeat

        

        set theText to theTitle & ", " & theTagcsv & theDate & return

        

        --write theText to theOpenedFile starting at eof

        do shell script "echo " & quoted form of theText & " >> ~/Desktop/my_file.txt"

        

    end repeat

    

    --close access theOpenedFile

    

end tell