pnewcomb 3 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 I have a list of article urls that I'd like to add to a particular notebook, each article being a separate note. Is there a way to batch process something like this? Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 10,734 Posted July 26, 2013 Level 5* Share Posted July 26, 2013 Mac doesn't have an 'import folder' like Windows - users can set up a watched folder for any notebook and drop files in there. Some script options have been published for Macs, but I don't know whether they would help. Link to comment
pnewcomb 3 Posted July 26, 2013 Author Share Posted July 26, 2013 I don't know anything about folders...do you mean a folder that contains a bunch of txt files? I'm just talking about a list of urls. Link to comment
pgdahl 133 Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 I don't know anything about folders...do you mean a folder that contains a bunch of txt files? I'm just talking about a list of urls. I don't why gazumped are talking about watched folders either, he probably misunderstood what you were talking about. Anyways, what you're asking is actually relatively simple to achieve (unless I misunderstand too): Just open the note, you want the list of urls to appear in in a separate window. Then select the notes you want to add to the list (you can select multiple with ⌘) and simply drag them to the note. It'll produce a list with notelinks to the respective notes. Link to comment
pnewcomb 3 Posted July 26, 2013 Author Share Posted July 26, 2013 No, I don't want a list of urls to be listed in a note. I have a list of urls - each linking a web article. I'd like each url parsed to a separate note, just as the web clipper would scrape out the article title & content. I'm not sure what notelinks are... Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 10,734 Posted July 26, 2013 Level 5* Share Posted July 26, 2013 Heh - sorry. Missed the reference to URLs there.. OK how long is your list? Because the only way to do that (beyond a little advanced scripting) as far as I can see is to click each URL to open a web page; use the web clipper to grab the page; and go on to the next. AutoHotKey maybe? Link to comment
Level 5 Adjusting 276 Posted July 26, 2013 Level 5 Share Posted July 26, 2013 OK how long is your list? Because the only way to do that (beyond a little advanced scripting) as far as I can see is to click each URL to open a web page; use the web clipper to grab the page; and go on to the next. Slightly simpler than clicking on each URL is to select them all, ctrl-click on them and select Services->Open URLThat should open all the urls in your browser. Then you'll still have to clip each individually. Link to comment
pnewcomb 3 Posted July 26, 2013 Author Share Posted July 26, 2013 It's about 200 urls. Ok, so that's my only option, I wonder if there's a way to have a single click method of clipping. Right now I have to click the web clipper icon, then click "save article". Can I set it up to automatically use the defaults instead of having the popup? Link to comment
pgdahl 133 Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 No, I don't want a list of urls to be listed in a note. I have a list of urls - each linking a web article. I'd like each url parsed to a separate note, just as the web clipper would scrape out the article title & content. I'm not sure what notelinks are... Ah, okay. So I did misunderstand. My appy-polly-logies. I thought you wanted notes that contained articles to turn into a list with links to each note. Notelinks are links within Evernote between notes. That is, you can link to Note A from within Note B. Every note has a notelink that can be obtained by right clicking (ctrl clicking if you will) the note in the list and choose "Copy notelink". Link to comment
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I have a list of article urls that I'd like to add to a particular notebook, each article being a separate note. Is there a way to batch process something like this?
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