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Hi all, I've just posted an updated version of ContactsExporter. Get it from the same installer link in the top post of this thread. Changes: It now exports a note's Tags - it puts them in a comma-separated list at the end of the row.It now properly handles the case where the LinkedIn field is shown as "View Profile" instead of the actual URL.The previous beta version has an expiration date of Nov. 1 - it will stop working after that date. This version removes any expiration dates.

Hi Ashish, We should move your particular question to the Evernote for Developers forum - I'll reply to your existing post there on this topic.

Hi Ashish, If you go to your Evernote My Account page and revoke access to ContactExporter, then you should get prompted to connect again and can use your business username. In terms of the API, there is no specific functionality to handle contact card notes; you would need to identify those notes based on a content class of "evernote.contact.1", and then parse the note content to extract the contact field data. I'm afraid I can't supply the specific source code for the parser I wrote as it's part of a code base for a custom client Evernote/Salesforce integration we created.

Thanks, glad you find it useful. It actually doesn't filter based on note title, it works based on the "content class" property and grabs all notes with a content class of "evernote.contact.1". I'm not sure how you're changing the title externally but whatever the process, it must also be updating the content class. The real issue is that before you do that process, if it doesn't have the correct content class, then chances are it also doesn't have the data properly formatted internally as contact fields that ContactExporter can parse. But we can easily find out if that's true or not - if you can take a note that got scanned as a "Scannable Document" and, without altering anything, export it to an ENEX file and email that file to me at support at moreproductivenow.com, I can see what the internal format is.

I suspect he does mean real-time collaboration on a note. @DvirG - Please understand that Evernote doesn't make their product roadmap public.

@Francescos, Glad it's proving useful for you! @Cenes, If you would be willing, could you export (to an ENEX file format) the business card note containing the LinkedIn field that didn't export, and email it to support@moreproductivenow.com? That way I can see why it missed the LinkedIn field - it should be including those.

I'll never say never, but no plans at the moment.

FYI I've posted an updated version of the program - it fixes a few reported bugs in extracting some of the fields, and it also adds a note's Date Created and Date Updated as two new exported columns.

In response to expressed demand, I wrote a Windows utility that exports data from Evernote Contact notes to a CSV file. TuskTools ContactExporter is currently available in an initial beta version; you can download the installer from here. It hasn't had very extensive testing yet, so please download it and let me know via emailing support@moreproductivenow.com how it works for you. It was a little tricky to implement because CSV files call for a consistent field list in every row (record), whereas Evernote's Contact card format allows for a variable number of elements for certain fields (namely, for email, phone, Twitter, LinkedIn, and addresses). So I implemented the following field structure in the CSV file: In other words, it implements the following rules: For Email - it outputs the first two email address fields it finds in the note. For Phone - it outputs the first two phone number fields it finds that are not labeled as Cell or Fax. For Twitter, LinkedIn, and addresses - it outputs the first two values it finds for each of these field types. As mentioned above, this is currently an initial beta. Once it's been sufficiently tested, I will most likely put it on the market for a nominal amount. Also as mentioned, it's currently a Windows utility. It's possible I might expand it to other platforms; we'll see how the response goes.

JMichael, Thanks so much for the nice words! I would love to do a Mac version, the biggest challenge is that I've yet to find a Tree tool on the Mac platform that provides the sophisticated UI control that's required. I haven't given up, though; would like to do a Mac version if possible. However, I really need to do iOS and Android versions, next, though, after Windows. Wordsgood, No, not out yet for sale, still in beta. I'm working on a few bug fixes now, then plan to distribute it to a wider beta audience. As JMichael said, it's totally integrated with Evernote (each outline item IS an Evernote note) so it's a complex task to get it all right!

iggy, For another approach to having a meticulous hierarchical system (I liked your phrase there) for your Evernote information, you might want to check out our TuskTools Treeliner solution.

August, You can create a desktop-only notebook by defining it as a "local notebook". When you create a new notebook, the window that's displayed in which you name it also gives you the option to make it a Local Notebook as opposed to a Synchronized Notebook.

For those on Windows wanting to manually arrange and organize (and outline) notes, you may want to check out our TuskTools Treeliner, now in beta.

If you’re a Windows user, you can now have recurring reminders in Evernote, via TuskTools Calendar. See this forum post for more information. TuskTools Calendar has many other features; you can take advantage of any or all of them, or you can just use the new recurring reminder functionality on its own.

Yup, definitely! (Wait till you see what TuskTools will be doing with reminders and due dates ) On that note, what's so great about Evernote the company is their commitment to third-party development. It's a lot stronger than many software companies.

I think it's clear from this lengthy discussion that some folks think and would like to organize more in hierarchical (outline format) ways, some folks not. One way is not right and the other wrong, just different ways of organizing and visualizing data. I'm one of those who prefers a hierarchical outliner approach and believes it has value, and for that reason, there is TuskTools Treeliner, now in beta. And yes, I'm currently dealing with the exact issue Dave mentioned in that 2008 post, i.e. the complications of shared vs. non-shared data in an outline. It's solvable, but not easy or straightforward, and I think Evernote is in many ways right to keep their design focused on being easy and straightforward. It's one of the reasons that they are now at 50 million users and growing, whereas other products like Ecco Pro (IMO the best PIM ever created), which tackled the complexity of outlining, did not succeed. There were other reasons as well for Ecco's failure - this isn't the place to get into that discussion - but one of them was its relatively steep learning curve (as compared to Evernote). Every time you add a feature to a software application - even if you make it an optional feature, like Evernote could do with more of a hierarchy - you increase the amount of potential factors that a new user must mentally consider in learning the application. The simplicity of Evernote is one reason they have been so successful.