Batch Rename

[hrhbobcoulter 0]

I have a lot of my notes starting with dates in the title bar, dates like "150309" and "150201" where 15 is the year, 03 the month and 09 the day.  Is there a way to batch rename all my notes so I can ad on "20" to the begining of each date, so I end up with 20150201, instead of 150201?

 

I'd do it by hand, but there are about a thousand or more notes I'd like to change.

 

Thank you!

Bob Coulter

[gazumped 12,214]

Hi.  There are ways to do this,  but it involves messing with your database content outside of Evernote;  so step 1 is backup your database. 

 

Then,  I'm currently looking at "Evernote Batch" from (confusingly) Office OneNote Gem http://www.onenotegem.com/evernote-batch.html which has a number of features including a bulk rename-with-a-prefix option as here http://evernote.onenotegem.com/document/evernote-batch-add-prefix-to-note-title.

 

It's not free,  and I haven't tested this process out,  but if you want to have a look into the possibilities in more detail,  the developer has been very responsive and helpful to my queries...

 

The only other alternatives (AFAIK) involve using an AHK script or similar to process a block of notes,  or -maybe- editing the database content directly (are you Mac or Windows?) which is really not recommended unless you are very confident and have a really urgent need...

[JMichaelTX 4,119]

There is no way, that I know of, just using Evernote to do this.  But if you're using EN Mac, AppleScript could probably do it.

[hrhbobcoulter 0]

Sounds like a "production". Perhaps I'll just keep it how it is...  Thank you to both of your for your suggestions. 

[JMichaelTX 4,119]

You might be able to use a keyboard macro tool (like Keyboard Maestro (Mac) and AutoHotKey (Win)) that would make the manual process easier.  If you select the current Title keyword, then it would be pretty easy for a macro to parse it and replace it with the date format you prefer.