krestor2 6 Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 I have a lot of notes that need to have simplified formatting applied to them. Any ideas on how? TIA Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,108 Posted June 12, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted June 12, 2020 31 minutes ago, krestor2 said: I have a lot of notes that need to have simplified formatting applied to them. Any ideas on how? TIA No easy way that of which I am aware. If it is hundreds of notes you can create a hotkey using a text expander to automate some working through the list of notes. But it is still going to be a hotkey press per note at best. Link to comment
Level 5* DTLow 5,721 Posted June 12, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted June 12, 2020 30 minutes ago, krestor2 said: I have a lot of notes that need to have simplified formatting applied to them. Any ideas on how? Scripting on a Mac (Applescript) Link to comment
krestor2 6 Posted June 12, 2020 Author Share Posted June 12, 2020 23 minutes ago, DTLow said: Scripting on a Mac (Applescript) I've never used Applescript--is it like creating macros? Hard to learn? Link to comment
krestor2 6 Posted June 12, 2020 Author Share Posted June 12, 2020 26 minutes ago, CalS said: No easy way that of which I am aware. If it is hundreds of notes you can create a hotkey using a text expander to automate some working through the list of notes. But it is still going to be a hotkey press per note at best. Hahaha -- I got thousands. They're recipes from webclips. I should have gone for "Simplified article" when I captured them, but live and learn . . . Link to comment
Level 5* Solution DTLow 5,721 Posted June 12, 2020 Level 5* Solution Share Posted June 12, 2020 5 hours ago, krestor2 said: I've never used Applescript--is it like creating macros? Hard to learn? I posted some Applescript basics at https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/112316-scripting-on-a-mac-applescript/ In your case, you want to select the notes and have the script process each one The script code is tell application "Evernote" set theNotes to get selection repeat with theNote in theNotes < insert code here end repeat end tell For the "simplify formatting" code, I searched the internet and found this https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/MacAutomationScriptingGuide/RemoveMarkupfromHTML.html Feel free to ask if you have any questions implementing this 1 1 Link to comment
krestor2 6 Posted June 12, 2020 Author Share Posted June 12, 2020 13 minutes ago, DTLow said: I posted some Applescript basics at https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/112316-scripting-on-a-mac-applescript/ In your case, you want to select the notes and have the script process each one The script code is tell application "Evernote" to set theNotes to get selection repeat with theNote in theNotes < insert code here end repeat For the "simplify formatting" code, I searched the internet and found this https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/MacAutomationScriptingGuide/RemoveMarkupfromHTML.html Feel free to ask if you have any questions implementing this Wow -- thank you so much! I'll dig into this. Link to comment
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