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  1. the process I described is completely free from any need for in-depth (or even basic) IT development skills. Just a little Mac OS experience will be fine. A professionally developed solution will of course be smoother and less cumbersome.
  2. hey, I'm just one person who uses notes for private and job purposes. So I'm not going to hire anyone, and if nobody makes something voluntarily, I will - maybe - migrate in the way I described above, even if it's cumbersome. I wanted to share my findings in case somebody else might still be interested. And, I just expressed my hope that somebody might want to develop something, based on my findings, but I never seriously believed this will ever happen.
  3. now all we need is someone who understands what this means and who has the skills to get it done.... 😉
  4. I found a (well hidden) Apple feature to bulk download data from various Apple apps, including Notes. See privacy.apple.com. After a few initial quirks (extended data protection has to be OFF), it worked beautifully. You will get a zipped file which expands into a folder structure: one folder per note, containing a TXT file with all the written notes, plus a subfolder for attached documents, images etc. Everything seems to be correct and complete. This makes it much easier to transition from Apple Notes to Evernote: You can bulk import all TXT files (I'm on the Mac): open the entire folder structure; mark all TXT files with CMD+click (first select 'Options-all data' to make the TXT files selectable, the default is on ENEX), then 'open'. For each TXT-file, a new Evernote note will be created, in an Import-notebook. The title will also contain creation time & date which can be modified in Evernote to reflect the actual creation date, rather than the import date. Alas, it seems as if the attachments have to be added manually, but can be dragged & dropped quite easily from the exported Apple folder structure into the respective Evernote note. It's still not perfect and needs some manual work to be done, but imho easier, quicker and more accurate than exporting every single Apple Note manually into a PDF, importing the PDFs into Evernote, and also losing the original formats. Of course, if somebody would consider to write an Apple script to automate this, to scan an entire folder and its subfolders for text files, and maybe to also move the attachments over, this would be fantastic.... 😉 unfortunately, I do not have the skills needed....!
  5. yes, this might be a problem that cannot be solved easily via scripting ...
  6. ok so as you asked for the legacy client I thought you referred to the version of the script. I used 7.14.1
  7. I understand what you mean 🙂 However, this is not an option for me.... Like I said, I know developing/maintaining such a tool is a p.i.t.a. But the script that is available here doesn't look tooooo complicated (I humbly state that, based on some basic programming skills in other (scripting) languages). Updating it in a way to name attachment folders after notes titles should not be a very big deal (the variable is there already). Reading, converting & transferring the 'scanned documents' type of attachments might be a bigger deal though, acknowledged. I just hoped for some of the people here who are much more skilled than me in Mac scripting to feel attracted by the challenge... 😉 And some Evernote people to be attracted by potentially a little more revenue ... 😉
  8. I don't know where to find a version number, I downloaded the script from the latest post here (April 26), and the last comment in it also says 2022-04-26 Yes I used the legacy client. I know Apple changed a lot in Notes, and understand maintaining such a script or a tool is a p.i.t.a. These 'scanned documents' came from docs that I took a picture of within Notes, which then got synced via iCloud, in a Notes internal format. Yes I can manually & separately from the note export this attachment as a PDF, but like I said, this gets almost impossible if you have hundreds of such notes or more.
  9. I know this is an old topic and there is a solution somewhere with an Apple Mac Script to import Apple Notes into Evernote. However, this is not working properly for me, in terms of moving ALL (or at least most) attachments like e.g. 'scanned documents' into Evernote or at least into a Mac folder structure for further manual processing. After a year or so with Apple Notes, and still missing some of the E features, I would very much like to move back to E, as a paying user. However, without a proper importing tool, I won't be able to do that. Currently I have a little less than 1000 notes stored in Apple Notes, so exporting them note by note manually won't work for me. I'm sure there are people with way more notes who would also like to migrate from Apple to E. I know this is a p.i.t.a., but think that developing (or officially supporting) an import tool would pay off big time for E., as it would allow many users like myself to go (back?) to Evernote. Currently on a Macbook Pro/M1 Pro, MacOS Monterey 12.5 P.S. I'm not overly optimistic this will receive lots of votes ... most forum users are current Evernote users, I guess 😞
  10. I just tried the latest version of the script that was posted here, with one of my Apple Notes folders. While all the notes were transferred properly, and the "attachments from notes" folder was created on my desktop, including all subfolders for notes with attachments, there are some major issues with it, which will prevent me from using this script to migrate: most of the attachment subfolders are empty. Only "real" attachments like PDFs or JPGs will arrive there. Other attachments like e.g. "scanned documents" didn't show there, the respective folders remained empty (but the fact that there was in fact an attachment folder created for that particular note shows that an attachment was recognized as such). The numbering of the attachment folders by running numbers only makes it incredibly cumbersome to identify the proper note that the attachment belongs to - think of several hundred of notes to be migrated or more. Attachment subfolders named after the note they came from would be a phantastic enhancement...providing all attachments were there in the first place. I'm not familiar with scripting on the Mac, therefore I can only comment or make suggestions. Maybe someone familiar with scripting wants to dig into that? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- P.S. I don't know if the Evernote people read this. But in the absence of a feedback system (at least I didn't find one), here is my message to E: after a year or so with Apple Notes, and still missing some of the E features, I would very much like to move back to E, as a paying user. However, without a proper importing tool, I won't be able to do that. Currently I have a little less than 1000 notes stored in Apple Notes, so exporting them note by note manually won't work for me. I think that developing (or officially supporting) an import tool would pay off big time for E., as it would allow many users like myself to go (back?) to Evernote. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- P.P.S. I just became aware of the feature request forum and will post my request for an import tool there too.
  11. I (and my colleagues) have thousands of notes stored in Apple Notes. Evernote is not able to bulk import these. Apple allows for exporting single notes as PDFs only. But no bulk export eg into a zip-file. As long as there is no easy and convenient way to bulk-import Apple Notes into Evernote, migrating to E. won't be possible. My/my colleagues' Apple Notes are available on iOS, iCloud/Web and on the Mac. Such a feature should be available on one of these platforms, preferably on the Mac, of course. I understand this might be too much effort, and maybe even limited due to Apple restrictions. But if technically ANY possible, E. should consider looking into this. Could potentially generate some new revenue!?
  12. 2 years later, and I found this thread because of being dissatisfied with Evernote's handwriting support, and looking for other opinions. I do believe that E. is still WAY inferior than OneNote in this regard. Just recently, I attended a presentation. With OneNote on my iPad and the Pencil, I could: take written notes (of course) take pictures of slides, instantly resize and mark them, write notes next or under or over them, or wherever else I wanted move ANY item (text, handwritten or typed, images, drawings) and put them anywhere else and all in one long consecutive thread. No need for opening new pages, no need for working in another app etc. All in all, OneNote works like a physical notebook, where you can write or draw what you want, where you want. With benefits of picture making, easy erasing of large items, moving items around etc. Really great. Later on, I tried to simulate this at home, with Evernote, on my iPad. It absoultely drove me crazy. It doesn't even come close to the ease of use and convenience of OneNote. I think it's long overdue for E. to improve in this field. Handwriting on computers and tablets is not going away, and is not descending.
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