pinggru 2 Posted May 6, 2023 Share Posted May 6, 2023 Experts! Need your advise! I've searched various forums and tried using scripts to export Apple Notes to Evernote, but unfortunately nothing has worked. The discussions I found are outdated and it seems that changes to Apple Script or MacOS have caused the scripts to stop functioning. I even contacted Apple support, but the only option they gave me was to export notes one-by-one as a PDF, which is not a format that Evernote can import. I'm stuck and could use some help. Copy-pasting has been a pain, as images are lost and formatting and colors are not preserved. I have about 200+ notes and 1000+ images, so this process is very time-consuming. I've tried for days to get the Apple scripts working but have had no luck. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! https://lwilli.github.io/2018-02-04-How-to-copy-mac-notes-to-evernote/ Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 12,074 Posted May 8, 2023 Level 5* Share Posted May 8, 2023 Hi. My Mac colleagues here may have some ideas, but my only suggestion would be to go with the PDF suggestion and use an Import Folder to 'suck' the information into Evernote. Create import folders Link to comment
pinggru 2 Posted May 8, 2023 Author Share Posted May 8, 2023 Thanks @gazumped I tried that already, and it is not desirable. PDF is imported into Evernote as a PDF but not converted to Evernote note. I will not be able to edit the notes which is not desirable. It works just like a dropbox or google drive. Looking for options to have it as a editable note. 1 Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 8,832 Posted May 8, 2023 Level 5 Share Posted May 8, 2023 You could try this Apple script. It is dated from 2018, so no idea if it still works. You will probably need the legacy version of EN, since v10 doesn't support scripting. Link to comment
pinggru 2 Posted May 8, 2023 Author Share Posted May 8, 2023 Yeah, that was the first thing I tried (LOL!!). Things have changed and it does not work. Unless someone can help come up with a version that works with Mac OS Ventura. Thanks for the suggestion though. Appreciate it! 1 Link to comment
johansan 48 Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 I have an updated script that exports everything from Apple Notes into folders as HTML. Runs latest MacOS. Will post shortly. Link to comment
pinggru 2 Posted May 9, 2023 Author Share Posted May 9, 2023 I would really appreciate such a script @johansan Thank you! Looking forward for the program! Link to comment
johansan 48 Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 -- Apple Notes Exporter version 1.0 -- By Johan Sanneblad -- Exports all Apple Notes in folders with filename "<creation date> <title> [<id>]" set exportFolder to (choose folder) as string -- Simple text replacing on replaceText(find, replace, subject) set prevTIDs to text item delimiters of AppleScript set text item delimiters of AppleScript to find set subject to text items of subject set text item delimiters of AppleScript to replace set subject to "" & subject set text item delimiters of AppleScript to prevTIDs return subject end replaceText -- Returns an HTML file to save the note in. We have to escape -- the colons or AppleScript gets upset. -- noteContainer must end with ":" on noteNameToFilePath(noteContainer, noteName) global exportFolder set strLength to the length of noteName if strLength > 250 then set noteName to text 1 thru 250 of noteName end if set noteFolder to exportFolder & noteContainer -- Create folder if it does not exist set outputFolder to POSIX path of (noteFolder as text) do shell script "mkdir -p " & quoted form of outputFolder set fileName to (noteFolder & replaceText(":", "_", noteName) & ".html") return fileName end noteNameToFilePath tell application "Notes" repeat with theNote in notes of default account set noteLocked to password protected of theNote as boolean set noteModificationDate to modification date of theNote as date set noteCreationDate to creation date of theNote as date set noteID to id of theNote as string set oldDelimiters to AppleScript's text item delimiters set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/" set theArray to every text item of noteID set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelimiters set noteFolder to "" if length of theArray > 4 then -- the last part of the string should contain the ID -- e.g. x-coredata://39376962-AA58-4676-9F0E-6376C665FDB6/ICNote/p599 set noteID to item 5 of theArray else set noteID to "" end if if not noteLocked then set theText to body of theNote as string set theContainer to container of theNote try repeat while theContainer is not missing value set noteFolder to (name of theContainer) & ":" & noteFolder set theContainer to (container of theContainer) end repeat end try -- prefix all notes by creation date (YYY-MM-DD) set yy to (year of noteCreationDate as text) -- set yy to text -2 through -1 of (year of noteCreationDate as text) set mm to text -2 through -1 of ("0" & (month of noteCreationDate as integer)) set dd to text -2 through -1 of ("0" & (day of noteCreationDate)) set datePrefix to yy & mm & dd -- file name composed by creation date + note title + id (to prevent overwriting files from the same date with same title) set fileName to ((datePrefix & " " & name of theNote as string) & " [" & noteID & "]") as string set filepath to noteNameToFilePath(noteFolder, fileName) of me set noteFile to open for access filepath with write permission write theText to noteFile as «class utf8» -- if you want UTF-16 replace this with "as Unicode text" close access noteFile tell application "Finder" set modification date of file (filepath) to noteModificationDate end tell end if end repeat end tell Here you go. It also exports folders as folders. If you don't want to prefix the notes with date just remove it. There is lots of configuration you can do to fit your individual needs. 2 Link to comment
pinggru 2 Posted May 9, 2023 Author Share Posted May 9, 2023 Thank you, @johansan Let me try this with a test Evernote account. Really-really appreciate your kind help! If this works then many of us will benefit from this program, I believe! Link to comment
pinggru 2 Posted May 11, 2023 Author Share Posted May 11, 2023 I am sorry, I could not test this yet. I want to make sure the program does not affect the existing notes in Apple Notes or in Evernote so thinking of alternate accounts to try this out; sometime this weekend. Link to comment
pinggru 2 Posted May 11, 2023 Author Share Posted May 11, 2023 I ran ahead an executed the program but it terminates with an error as below: error "Notes got an error: An error of type -116 has occurred." number -116 from "<div><h1>Screws</h1></div> <div><br></div> <div><img style=\"max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%;\" src=\"data:image/ There's much more data that below these but did not post due to some personal data / info. I do see part of the Notes getting exported to a choosen folder in my mac but I think the program is half way through. Thoughts? Link to comment
pinggru 2 Posted May 11, 2023 Author Share Posted May 11, 2023 I deleted a few files that were causing issues for the program. I think the export is now complete as a HTML. Now, how do I import those HTMLs into Evernote? Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 8,832 Posted May 11, 2023 Level 5 Share Posted May 11, 2023 The usual and officially documented way of importing is via ENEX: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035153274 or through a zip-File, but this is somehow weakly defined: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208314308 Export to HTML is usually seen as the export method if you want an export that you can read with any browser, independently from EN. https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/209005557 Link to comment
pinggru 2 Posted May 11, 2023 Author Share Posted May 11, 2023 Hmm... [scratch, scrath, scrath,...] ZIP - Extract to folder > files must be in ENEX - so deflates the purpose. Wondering what's the point of exporting Apple Notes to HTML if I can't import into Evernote and use it (edit). Reading independently off of Evernote was not my real venture. I can keep my apple notes. Looks like I am back to square one! Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 8,832 Posted May 11, 2023 Level 5 Share Posted May 11, 2023 No idea what happens if you zip one of these HTML files, and try to import them. ENEX is a sort of HTML as well, maybe it works. Link to comment
vamp07 0 Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 Just discovered this thread. This is a topic I have messed with over the years. That script seems to work but will not include attachments that are not the usual suspects from what I can see. One of the reasons I stuck with Evernote for the longest time was that .enex always included everything when importing into another notes app. Made it easy to play with other tools even if only temporarily. Would be cool to get some AppleScript that created an .enex file that included everything but I'm not sure where to even start. Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 8,832 Posted July 12, 2023 Level 5 Share Posted July 12, 2023 If you search for „apple notes bulk export“ you will be offered a number of options. I would simply try with a certain set of notes in Apple Notes, until I find a solution working for my data, including attachments. Link to comment
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