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1 hour ago, DTLow said:

I'm scripting on a Mac (Applescript), 
Fairly straightforward script; Applescript does the parsing automatically

i'm so jealous. i understand enough to Frankenstein certain things together and understand the possibilities...but writing something clean that "just works" would not be my forte. If you did it, i think you would be a hero; especially in the #RoamCult—and other "second brain"—circles!  🤩

1 hour ago, CalS said:

Not sure the juice would be worth the squeeze relative to extracting the highlighted text, for me anyway.

The juice might not have worth for you but i think there are a fair amount of people that, if this worked well and people knew about it, would find it extremely useful...especially academic types and writers (like me) who read and summarize lots of reading.

On 4/27/2020 at 6:51 PM, CalS said:

Well there's a way but it is cumbersome to the point of not making it a way.  Export a bunch of notes to ENEX, open the text editor of your choice, and search for -evernote-highlight:true to find each note

Actually, if you wanted to automate it after the export, you'd have to strip out this part:

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 250, 165);-evernote-highlight:true;">

Then, you'd need to strip out the closing \span tag. Actually, it doesn't seem like it'd be that hard if you were good at scripting. i think it could be done with Automator but i'm more of a designer and know only enough coding to be dangerous. The challenge is that Evernote's export is a bloated mess of HTML.

i'd really like to see something like this myself to bring highlighted text into Roam. i just need each highlight on a separate line.

Maybe if Evernote would let me replace their highlighter app with Liner or another highlighting plugin, we could do it. (?)

Bonjour, i came to the forum today just to find out how i can do this.

On 4/17/2020 at 7:58 PM, annygonzales said:

I clipped a couple of articles online and highlighted important info/phrases from them, thinking I could later search by only my highlighted phrases and compile them either together, or in an easy to view list, but I can't seem to find anything. It would be so helpful if I could.

I remember when I was in school and I needed to quote certain articles, I would have to go through every article I clipped and scroll to search for my highlighted text, cut/copy, and paste it into another note just so I could have a whole comprehensive list of all my points. It was a huge pain and a big time waster. To be able to search for a certain color of text, or highlight, would be awesome. For example, if I made something red, and wanted to pull up all the text I had made red. Hope that makes sense.

I looked all over and couldn't find an answer to this! Any help would be appreciated.

You could always try to put a unique #tag on every Note that you make a highlight. Then you could do a search on the tag.

The last comment here was six months ago. Anyone have an update?