What's The Fastest Way To Import Notes?

[happy_martin 0]

I run a business where we collect literally hundreds of thousands of text files each month.  These have small filesizes (100-500 bytes each) and I have a computer script that has these downloaded to my Mac as a single ZIP file every few days.

 

I need to import these into Evernote.

 

Currently I unzip the files and drag-and-drop them into the appropriate evernote folder.  I see the 'Creating note X of X' and cannot use evernote at all until the import completes.

 

I just ran a test now and it's taken 13 minutes to import just 1,600 files and during this time I've been unable to use it for anything else.

 

On Monday I need to import about 200,000 files so  if the import speed stays consistent it'll take more than 24 hours to import everything and I won't be able to do anything else with evernote during this time.

 

So my questions ultimately is ... 

 

What's currently the fastest way of importing into Evernote?

 

- Is the windows version of Evernote faster to import?

- Would it be worthwhile hiring somebody to create an Evernote script hosted on my server where i could upload my zip file to and have it unzipped and imported to evernote using the API?

- Is there a way of importing evernote notes in the background so that I can continue to use the app?

 

and a final question - do any of these import methods have a restriction of the # of files (I have a business account)?

 

Thanks all for your suggestions.

[jbenson2 2,147]

I run a business where we collect literally hundreds of thousands of text files each month.  These have small filesizes (100-500 bytes each) and I have a computer script that has these downloaded to my Mac as a single ZIP file every few days.

 

I need to import these into Evernote.

 

Currently I unzip the files and drag-and-drop them into the appropriate evernote folder.  I see the 'Creating note X of X' and cannot use evernote at all until the import completes.

 

I just ran a test now and it's taken 13 minutes to import just 1,600 files and during this time I've been unable to use it for anything else.

 

On Monday I need to import about 200,000 files so  if the import speed stays consistent it'll take more than 24 hours to import everything and I won't be able to do anything else with evernote during this time.

 

So my questions ultimately is ... 

 

What's currently the fastest way of importing into Evernote?

 

- Is the windows version of Evernote faster to import?

- Would it be worthwhile hiring somebody to create an Evernote script hosted on my server where i could upload my zip file to and have it unzipped and imported to evernote using the API?

- Is there a way of importing evernote notes in the background so that I can continue to use the app?

 

and a final question - do any of these import methods have a restriction of the # of files (I have a business account)?

 

Thanks all for your suggestions.

 

Yes, there is an upper limit of 100,000 notes per account.

https://evernote.com/contact/support/kb/#!/article/23283158

 

I don't have the business version, but from what I have read.. it will be difficult to handle hundreds of thousands of notes every month.