Sapagrino

https://github.com/vzhd1701/evernote-backup Thanks. I'll have a look. It occurs to me that if there is a way for any non-Evernote product to create an enex file for import to Evernote, then that other product could serve as a bridge to bring in large batches of hard drive files. I'm unable so far to locate an Obsidian plug in that would create an Enex, and I can understand why. Obsidian reliably ingests whatever files are in the folder structure. I'll look more at the github you mentioned... Thanks.

Unfortunately, when I drag multiple files from Windows explorer to an Evernote notebook, I get one note with multiple files, rather than one note per pdf. When I do it with just one file, it works, with the Evernote title matching the file name. Back to the broader point, so frustrating indeed how hard it is to get Evernote to just reliably ingest large volumes of existing files once and only once, one note per file. ouch. Not the kind of fail you'd expect to plague such long-standing platform. It tags, syncs, and collects paper and web clips so well, and I'm a subscriber since 2011, but it's feeling like it needs to be reserved for that and then its files exported for import into, say, Obsidian and/or Sharepoint. I'd rather be importing everything into Evernote, than exporting out of Evernote, but this duplicating triplicating (sometimes, no warning, no de-duping utility) is seriously unacceptable for too many now and future fundamental tasks at hand. Anyone have a good "export new stuff regularly from Evernote" workflow? Something that continues to use its strengths, but gives up on trying to watch or import folders, or anything else that relies on large volumes of hard drive files?

Given that it doesn’t work as reliably as it should in a big big way that is known to cause issues no matter what the strategy or batch size (I.e., inability to discern an already imported file was just “touched” by another computer process is to be ignored on a second pass), what is the best way to mitigate, do you think? …is what we’re struggling with here. Smaller batches won’t resolve the unreliability, as much as just break the cost into smaller pieces. Just pondering here, amongst us users.

This looks interesting. I suppose it could be used to copy from a Sharepoint folder to the Evernote watched import folder in overnight batches, wait for a batch to complete, delete everything from the Evernote watched import folder. Repeat next night with a different batch of Sharepoint folders and files. Similar trouble as my thought of deleting and changing the watched folder each morning. But, I suspect this dropIt! approach will throw off lots of side benefits and be a good tool to learn. I really want to find a way to keep modifying my Evernote note titles like so: "YYYY MM DD - blah blah", and have that Zettel prefix be the trigger to use the title of the note as the new name of the note's attachment. Also, to set the note's create date to YYYY MM DD. It was working beautifully for me, via Filterize. Thanks for the lead!

Understood. Therein the challenge. It appears nothing is really made for mass import then. Batching and 10GB per month work fine when they work in tandem reliably (i.e., without hazzzle). I do the mindful work during the day, I batch import files-left-in-place in very large overnight mindless batches (e.g. 0.2 to 0.5 GB overnight). I tag, rename, and use-for-purpose during the next day. Rinse and repeat 20 to 30 days in the month. If my daytime productivity outpaces 10GB per month, the next two months, that would be a nice problem to have. But, I can't have this doubling up, and I can't have to delete the originals to mitigate. I suppose waking up each day with some process to remove the prior night's watched/import folder(s) from Evernote's settings, replacing it that evening with the next watched/import folder is a direction to consider. I'd need to make sure that everything from the first night's batch was done importing before deleting the folder from being watched. Productivity based on my ability to predict which folders to click before bed such that it's done by morning. Hmmm, must be a way. Will do more thinking. Perhaps I need to instead push the paper scans out of Evernote into SharePoint and/or Obsidian, and do my consolidation there, outside of Evernote. I feel like that is giving up on Evernote and I would have much preferred to use Evernote to tag all the many downloads sitting in folders now only as pdfs through this ... overnight mass import into Evernote. Other than my thought of removing and adding the next queued watched folder as a rigor, any other directions or ideas come to mind? If the above rigor could somehow work to catch things up quickly, I'd then have to explore later how to periodically do some non-destructive way to rescan the folders for newer or changed files. That seems doable from the various ideas above but I suspect very difficult in practice. Still, even a big one time catch up mass import-fest month or two would bring massive value. Just can't get sidetracked daily with the doubling up or overly time-consuming checking and fixing. There must be a way. Thanks for listening.

I have, among other things, an entire set of SharePoint site document repositories sync'd to my hard drive. Those files need to stay where they are. I had hoped that by setting a top site folder as a watched import folder, and then going to sleep, would result in waking up to a few thousand Evernote notes, one for each file on the Sharepoint site. I like that there is an evernote note to tag in addition to having things like Sharepoint Site columns, and I like that I can play around with exporting the Evernote notes (using yrle) to Obsidian. I'm coming from a place where all my scanned paper (ScanSnap), tags, and weblinks are in Evernote, all my authoring and associated note linking is in Obsidian, and my file downloads and primary sharing is with SharePoint. I digress. Going to sleep and setting Evernote to reliably import hundreds or thousands of notes from existing folder structures, but only do it once, seems like will always be somewhat unreliable. I'm still going to play around with round-tripping some samples from Sharepoint to Evernote to Obsidian, adding Obsidian things to the markdown note, and then reimporting the markdown back into Evernote. Similarly, to detach attachments from Evernote notes back onto the hard drive. This is all to test portability of the data, what can be kept in sync and dynamic versus a static version. At the end of the day, I want to have a single chronology of scanned paper, downloads, literature notes, etc. I had hoped that Evernote could start by collecting the hard drive file downloads to add to its scanned paper population, before then figuring out what to do with my obsidian notes and attachments. This doubling up, tripling up, when the watched folder has its own purpose in life is looking non-viable though. Will give further thought to consolidation workflow, but welcome anyone's thoughts.

Thanks. Alas, the genius of the tagging I did before I realized my lack of genius in identifying the issue too late was too great to delete En masse, so I am now manually ctrl - clicking my heart out. Live and learn, I hope. I wish the Evernote sync would have better protected me A same sized, same named, same locationed imported pdf file should not flummox the import feature just because said file again got touched, opened, etc.

Wow. Just suffered this problem in a big way. Added import folder that had a couple thousand notes. Now have three of almost all of them. A manual deletion of two thirds seems overwhelming. I suppose I could delete them all and try a new fresh import, but I will lose a couple hours spent tagging. I wish there was a more reliable way to avoid duplicate imports, like don't import a file with the same name and path as was imported before, even if it thinks such file "changed." This hiccup has made a mess of my planned workflow. Is anyone aware of any automation tools? I was using filterize for other things with great success until it closed shop on December 31, 2023. Has anyone successfully used IFTTT, Zapier, or this "Make" tool that filterize referenced to do de-duping? Without filterize, I also need a new way to keep the note titles and the attachment names in sync. Thanks, all.

Trying Filterize now... Will report back. Thanks!

Can the creation date of multiple notes be changed in batches? For example, I have many notes scanned from paper with a title in the form of "20210815 - [Subject]". 1)I would like to sort by subject, select all the notes that start with 20210815, and then change the creation date of that whole batch of selected notes to August 15, 2021; or 2) what I'd really like is to have an automated way to examine the first string in the subject, and modify the creation date in accordance with this principal. Thank you for any assistance. Eric