Option to set note's Date Created to file's Date Created when using Import Folders

[ianmjones 4]

At the moment the Import Folders feature sets the new note's Date Created to the date/time that the note was created, but it would be very helpful to be able to use the imported file's Date Created instead.

 

Before Evernote v10 I used to use Hazel to monitor a folder and import new files into Evernote. As part of that script it would set the note's Date Created to match the file's Date Created so that I could easily find and sort documents by their date created. This is often very useful when searching for a document and then easily being able find the right one based on a rough idea on when it would have been created/received.

 

This becomes particularly important if you're prone to batch scanning paper documents, say once per month (or so 🤦‍♂️), fix up each scanned document's date created/modified to something close to when it was either sent or received, and then import into Evernote.

 

Bonus points for being able to set the file's and note's date created/modifed automatically by using a specific string in the file name, e.g. "touch_20210804_My Document.pdf" would result in a "My Document" note containing a "My Document.pdf" file, both with a date created/modified of 2021-08-04 00:00:00.

[PinkElephant 8,799]

Personally I prefer the "created" date set to the date when the note was created, not the content.

It makes new content stay on top in many views as "new", even if the content may be older.

But this is probably one of these things where there is no "right" or "wrong".

[DTLow 5,744]

4 hours ago, ianmjones said:

Before Evernote v10 I used to use Hazel to monitor a folder and import new files into Evernote

 My solution was Mac Folder Actions triggering an Applescript   
And I still use this today with the Evernote Legacy product 

>>As part of that script it would set the note's Date Created to match the file's Date Created so that I could easily find and sort documents by their date created. 

I store Subject date by prefixing to the note title; example 2021-07-01 Sample

 

[ianmjones 4]

1 hour ago, DTLow said:

My solution was Mac Folder Actions triggering an Applescript   
And I still use this today with the Evernote Legacy product 

Yeah, I might have to switch back to that for a bit if I'm going to import the backlog I currently have (I stopped using Evernote for a few months but I'm back, enticed by the new features).

However, I'm not really using macOS these days, my primary machines are Linux, and so really I hope this feature request makes it into not only the macOS version of Evernote but also the upcoming Linux version.

 

1 hour ago, DTLow said:

I store Subject date by prefixing to the note title; example 2021-07-01 Sample

I used to do that too, sort of. I used to put the date at the end of the file name for something like "Electricity Bill - 2021-08-04.pdf".