JMichaelTX

Unless you are an Evernote developer, or have access to inside design documents, I don't think any of us really know how hard, or how easy, it would be to add hierarchical Notebooks to the current Evernote architecture. However, it is unlikely to be super hard because we see this design in many other products. OTOH, it seems to be very hard for the Evernote developers to design and implement a solid, robust Note editor. So, who knows??? Just my 2¢.

@DTLow, nice script. May I ask why you chose to use gzip instead of zip to compress the file?

From the blog mentioned above: It is very sad that after nearly 5 years of working on a product that "we've been working on for quite a while", the so-called "Common Editor" is still not finished, still not stable, and in many respects worse than it was before.

EN Mac AppleScript to Create Internet Location File (inetloc) for EN Note I have just uploaded my AppleScript to: Create Internet Location File from EN Note -- GitHub Gist An Internet Location File is the type of file you get when you drag/drop the URL from your Browser's Address bar onto a Mac Finder folder. A simple double-click on that file opens the web page in your Browser. In this case, a simple double-click opens your EN Note in an Evernote Mac Note window. Please feel free to post below any questions, issues, and/or suggestions that you have about this.

Short answer: No. But, by proper use of Notebooks and/or Stacks, or Tags you can achieve this. Probably the simplest is to assign a tag of "Archive" to every Note you want archived. Then in the Search box, use "-tag:archive" to remove them from view. My approach is notebooks/stacks since I use very few Notebooks: ACTIVE_STACK Active INBOX InWork OL_Mobile (several shared NBs) Archive (just a NB with no stack) Most of my Notes end up in the "Active" NB. So all I have to do is click on that NB. I can click on ACTIVE_STACK, which is a Stack, to see all active (non-archive) Notes. Once a year, I do a search, and move all Notes in the Active NB whose Date Updated is more than 3 years ago to the Archive NB. But I have to say that most of the time I'm in the "All Notes" mode, and it really does not bother me (or slow things down) that it includes very old Notes that are in the Archive NB. I usually keep the note list sorted by Date Updated Descending, so the most recent stuff is on top. HTH.

That has not been my observation with Evernote Mac, and certainly not with Evernote iOS. But don't take my word for it, just review the many bug reports in EN Mac 7 Release thread, and in EN Mac 6.14 Beta threads. I'm still running Evernote 6.11.1 (455059) on macOS 10.12.6 because of the many new bugs in all releases since then. But then I'm an Evernote old-timer. I still remember the days of yesteryear when I never hesitated to update to the latest version of Evernote, and that included the Beta versions. Those days are long, long, gone. There are many, many people calling for Evernote to revert EN iOS 8.x to the last stable Version 7.

Also, for my account, running Evernote 6.11.1 (455059) on macOS 10.12.6, the SQLite DB is NOT in a folder as indicated in your script: set databaseFile to databaseFolder & "localNoteStore/LocalNoteStore.sqlite" So I had to change this to: set databaseFile to databaseFolder & "LocalNoteStore.sqlite"

Thanks for sharing. To All: Caution: This leads you to directly accessing the Evernote SQLite database, and to directly editing the file containing the Note's contents. Proceed carefully -- this could result in loss of data, even your entire Evernote database. BEFORE you proceed, I recommend that you make backup copies of these files: the SQLite database (LocalNoteStore.sqlite) the Note Contents (content.enml)

Perhaps it is a matter of semantics, but in the macOS, tags, and before them, labels, refer only to the object(s) that have that tag/label. Deleting a tag has no effect of the object it was assigned to. Whereas actions such as delete and move of the folder will affect all items in that folder. Most systems do NOT have tag hierarchies like Evernote. In Evernote, if I do a search on a tag, it returns only the Notes that have that tag. The search results do NOT include Notes that have tags which do NOT have that tag, but do have child tags of that tag. Folders (Notebooks) are containers. So if I delete, or move, a folder, it applies to all of its contents down to the lowest item in the hierarchy. Whereas, if I delete a tag, nothing happens to the object which has that tag. The folder, and all of its contents continue to exists. Regardless of whether it is how the UI is constructed, or how the underlying data structures are defined, the notions of "folder" vs "tag" have long been quite different. As you noted, an object can have many tags, but only one folder. This is a very important distinction. So folders have two very important differences from tags: They are containers of every object (subfolders and files) within them. An object can belong to one and only one folder. As I have said many times, we need both folders and tags, or for Evernote, we need both Notebooks and Tags. Each serve a vital purpose that cannot be 100% fulfilled by the other.

No issues with your Notes stored in the Evernote Cloud, but any time you downgrade EN Mac you need to do a clean reinstall. This is because later versions often use a different database format that may not be compatible with earlier versions. See How to Completely Remove and Reinstall EN Mac

Wow! That is awesome, and a first! ? Thanks for asking. To start with, could you please give EN Mac the same feature EN Win has that allows a Search for a Parent Tag to auto-include all notes that have tags that are Child Tags of that Parent (but not the Parent Tag itself). Since this is already implemented for EN Win I would hope it would not be too difficult for EN Mac. BTW, EN Win requires you to change a setting in Options. It would be much preferred to allow for this option as part of the Search Grammar/Syntax. Maybe something like tag:MyTopTag+ would work, where the + means to auto-include any child tags. Of course, when you actually provide for hierarchical Notebooks, then I'd like the same: A Search with a Parent NB would (optionally) include Notes in its SubNotebooks. I think this should be obvious, but when you support hierarchical NBs, then we are going to need many, many more NBs than 200. Hopefully you could support the same number of NB as you do Tags (100,000), which is effectively unlimited. A primary use case for hierarchical NBs is Project > SubProjects > Tasks > SubTasks. Here is a great reference that speaks to the need for both tags and hierarchical folders (NBs): Tags or folders?

I understand and feel your pain. However, I have found that Pseudo Notebooks (tags) can work just like hierarchical Notebooks. Did you read the topic I linked to above? It explains all this in detail with examples. If you have a question about pNBs, please post in that topic/thread.

I agree with you -- Evernote needs to provide us with hierarchical Notebooks/SubNotebooks. But, until they do, I have found a system that works almost as good. I don't know if this is one of the methods you have already explored, but you might take a look to see if it will work for you: See Using Tags as Pseudo Notebooks (pNB)

Do you have a video which demos this feature/capability?

What versions of Evernote and OS are you running? I have built a similar automation for EN Mac using AppleScript. Please let me know if you are interested, and I'll provide more details.

Great example. To your point, to achieve the most effective organization, we need BOTH Notebooks (hierarchical organization) and Tags (more like indexes than anything else). I see no reason to berate either. Here's an interesting article: Tags or folders? Depends on the file.

If the only issue you have with Chrome is the Bookmark Manager, then you might consider alternate methods of managing bookmarks (there are a number of third party tools available), and, for that matter, managing the data/links you are storing in the bookmarks (Evernote might be a good alternative for this). I also dislike the change Google made to the Chrome Bookmark Manager -- but its not severe enough to cause me to drop use of Chrome. I like many other features that it offers, and have found Chrome performance to meet or exceed other browsers. I especially like the Chrome Developer Tools, where I can easily inspect any element on a page to view the associated HTML, and then work in the JavaScript Console with great tools. I have found that no tool, no software app, is perfect. None have all of the features I want; none have the exact UI I would prefer. So, I find the tool/app that best meets my needs/preferences and go with that; and provide feedback to the developer about stuff I don't like. BTW, instead of using the Chrome Bookmark Manager so frequently, have you tried using the "Bookmarks Bar", which displays the top-level folders across the top of the browser window? I use it and really like it, so I rarely need to even use/view the Bookmark Manager.

Thanks. However, we can revert (for now) to the old format: Also, I'd suggest that we all submit a complaint directly to Google as suggested here:

Can you please post links to web pages describing the change, and to the discussion about it? Thanks.

I don't know if you found a solution or not, but in EN Mac you can easily import the HTML file simply by dragging the file onto the Evernote icon in your Mac Dock. Have you tried that? If you want to assign EN Tags to each of your Google Categories/Folders, this could be done with a small effort using AppleScript.

AFAIK, it is not possible today to apply any formatting to the Note Title. However, you could do this: Insert this character at the start of the Title: ❗️ Assign a Tag of "BestMatch" or "Match.Best" or whatever tag name makes sense to you. Then a quick click/selection of that tag will filter the list for you. You could assign this tag when you add the Note to Evernote. If you are a Mac user, you could write a simple AppleScript, based on some criteria (like keyword in the title or body) to: Assign one or more tags Insert this character at start of Title: ❗️ Questions?

While your approach is helpful, it does not meet my need to have a table of contents at the top of a note, with links to each section referenced in the TOC to the actual section lower in the Note. So we still need for Evernote to provide us with true internal bookmarks/anchors that link to text elsewhere in the Note.

Evernote does not provide any official documentation on this. However, you might find this helpful: Using Tags as Pseudo Notebooks

Thanks, that's very helpful.

Hey Phil, looks like you have a great tool there. Do you have any plans to provide a Mac version?