Sorry I'm such an applescript novice I've no idea how to include your suggestion. I've typed the following script out (and also tried to tweak it), but it gives me the following error: Expected end of line, etc. but found end of script. tell application "Notes" activate -- bring the Notes client forward delay 1 -- wait to make sure the client has fully activated tell application "System Events" keystroke "|" using command down -- Cmd-| to go to the note list keystroke "a" using command down -- Cmd-A to select all repeat with thisMessage in theMessages set myTitle to the name of thisMessage set myText to the body of thisMessage set myCreateDate to the creation date of thisMessage set myModDate to the modification date of thisMessage tell application "Evernote" set myNote to create note with text myTitle title myTitle notebook "Imported Notes" tags ["imported_from_notes", "Yosemite", "Another_Example_Tag"] set the HTML content of myNote to myText set the creation date of myNote to myCreateDate set the modification date of myNote to myCreateDate end tell end repeat end tell