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  1. On 10/20/2022 at 2:18 AM, gazumped said:

    Wow - sorry for the lack of encouragement;  I seem to have had an action packed year so far...  just spotted the previous comment and downloaded the app.  First impression - it ate my test account with remarkable speed and generated HTML pages as I requested.  There's no text formatting on the pages though,  so they're edge-to-edge text.  Maybe MarkDown will be better.  The whole thing is a bit bare bones,  but it's early days yet.  More in a few days...

    Sounds good - one thing I've done on the Mac version but not yet on the Windows version is to allow you to import an Evernote ENEX file, which speeds things up massively since the app no longer needs to download notes and resources from Evernote's services, it just downloads metadata such as the tag hierarchy.

    Damian (grew up just outside Cardiff).

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  2. On 5/26/2022 at 4:37 PM, gazumped said:

    Can I be your first volunteer for Windows beta testing? B)

    After working on it for a month, I've just published the first version of the Windows app - it is in the store, but not visible without the direct link which is here: https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/exportnote/9N1SG9DJVT94

    It really is the first version I've made available to test, so please don't hesitate with any feedback about how it looks or how it works.

    You'll likely hit Evernote rate-limits when doing the initial sync, which forces the app to wait, so expect to leave it for many hours if you have a lot of notes.  Once that initial sync is done it should be much faster.

    If you have a moment, let me now what you think!

    Thanks,

    Damian

     

     

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  3. 3 hours ago, Kyle D. aka macfixer said:

    over the WEEKEND??? :blink:

    Indeed - it was a weekend of total coding bliss - family was away.  I reused some tests from a PHP html-markdown converter but wrote it all from scratch in Swift.

    I'm sure there are bugs, but I have quite a lot of tests, all passing (at the moment):
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    I'm working at the moment to remove all the full paths in the generated files, so that they are all relative, so that you can move the generated files to another folder and all the symlinks, note-links, etc. will work.

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  4. I've added support for generating Markdown
     
    I implemented the Evernote Markup Language to Markdown converter from scratch over the weekend. I've a lot of tests, and I've checked a lot of my own notes, but I'd appreciate feedback if you notice Markdown not being generated properly.
     
    I'm generating "pure" markdown (no HTML tags). Also I don't support tables yet. Let me know if the behavior isn't as you'd expect for anything.
     
    I'm not generating markdown index files yet either.
     
    Thanks,
    Damian
     
    damian@exportnote.com
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  5. 1 hour ago, Kyle D. aka macfixer said:

    Uhh… Evernote's API is not so happy:
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    One thing ... by default it only generates html for the first 1000 notes without a one-time in-app purchase. However in the TestFlight version you can "buy" the IAP without actually paying any money, so I suggest you do this to see all your notes - you won't need to re-sync everything, just regenerate the HTML (there is a menu option to remove the generated HTML).

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  6. 51 minutes ago, Kyle D. aka macfixer said:

    Uhh… Evernote's API is not so happy:
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    Uhh indeed ... in this version I tried making the app download two notes (or attachments) at the same time, to halve the sync time.  Looks like I need to change it to just download one at a time.  FWIW if you enter a dev token at login then it downloads 16 at a time, because the Evernote service doesn't seem to rate-limit dev-tokens.

    I believe it is possible to ask that an app be given a special initial sync boost to allow multiple simultaneous downloads, I'll check with Evernote.

     

    Damian

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  7. 1 minute ago, gazumped said:

    Hi Damian - I'm not a Mac person but it's good to know there are some independent developers out there working on Evernote tie-ins.  Your app would sit well with a lot of Windows users too: any plans in that direction?  I'd certainly use a Windows version - some users here currently pay (as @PinkElephant has pointed out elsewhere) around the same monthly cost as an Evernote subscription to run another app which generates an Enex file for each current notebook.  Those files are a good backup,  but are not 'usable' as such - they're just an archive.  Your set-up could offer some useful advantages!

    I'd love to do a Windows version - I want to see if there is enough interest in the Mac version first - I've developed plenty of Windows apps in the past.

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  8. I'm a long-time Evernote user (since 2009, ~12,000 notes), and I wanted to always have a local html copy of my Evernote notes, including my tag hierarchy, so I've created an app for that, called ExportNote: https://exportnote.app

    It is currently in beta and can be downloaded from https://testflight.apple.com/join/uwMdXI4d

    My privacy policy is at https://exportnote.app/privacy/ (I don't collect/export any information, I just talk to Evernote's servers once you've logged in).

    I'm looking for feedback, big or small, to see if this is something I should release to the world.

    This app is in no way associated with Evernote.

    Thanks,

       Damian

    PS for those that care about such things, tagged notes are created as symbolic links to the note in the notebook folder, so you'll save space. Also I set the creation and modification dates of the generated files to match those of the original note.  I create an HTML index file, but you can also browse on disk.

    PPS I did work for Evernote in the past, creating their Windows Phone app, working on Evernote Food, Evernote Pebble, Evernote for Android Wear and more ... none of which remain! This app is in no way associated with Evernote.

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  9. I've just published an Amazon Echo skill which lets you create Evernote notes.

    To enable it, say "Alexa, enable the My Notebook skill".  You'll need to link to your Evernote account in the Alexa app (it just asks for permission to write notes).

    Then you can say "Alexa, tell My Notebook I've hidden the kids ipads under the sofa".

    It will respond with "I've added I've hidden the kids ipads under the sofa to Evernote",.

    Now you'll never have the embarrassing situation where you confiscate your kids' screens and then forget where you put them.  Or is that just me?

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  10. I just downloaded v. 5.0 (I never owned a previous version). I am still deciding if I want to really rely on Evernote to store all of my information.

    I understand how to make a stack, but I need to create stacks within stacks. Am I correct that this cannot be done? If so, it is a deal-breaker. Imagine your computer operating system not allowing you to nest folders more than one level?

    I use hierarchical tags to achieve this. I only have 3-4 notebooks, but I have many many levels of tags.

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