JMichaelTX

Did you see my script above? That should get you started. I don't have any scripts that create a JSON string from Evernote tags.

There seems to be a lot of misinformation in this thread. I am NOT a security expert, that's why I do a lot of research to find reviews by those that are security experts and professionals. So, to clarify this review, PDF encryption standard weaknesses uncovered , that I cited earlier, please note their final recommendation: Also, you may want to read this article from NASA: Using GPG to Encrypt Your Data -- NASA

Who are you to make that judgement? You have a forum username of "why?", and I don't recognize you has having any authority or expertise about internet security. So you can continue to pontificate all you want. I'll not waste any more of my time responding to you. Anyone that listens to you does so at their peril.

It is NOT "scaremongering". It is a review of the issues with PDF 256-AES. There are other review that have found similar issues. Each person can decide if it is an issue for their needs. I have found GPG easy to use, using the GPGTools suite. Very simple: Right-click on a file in the Finder, and select "encrypt", and it creates encrypted file with "gpg" extension. Double-click on an encrypted file with extension "gpg" and it decrypts. No paranoia here. Just good, common sense, taking the proper security precautions where I need to.

This is really off-topic for this thread. I'd encourage you to do a search on "Mac tags" to find many topics on this subject. For example: https://discussion.evernote.com/search/?q=mac tags&quick=1&search_and_or=and&search_in=titles

It is really not up to you to say what is valid or not valid for me. I have no idea what "nope" means in this context. I did not ask you for anything. If you prefer not to use Mac folders, that's fine. I find them very useful.

May be, but I don't know that for a fact, and I have not seen any third party reports on security of Google provided storage. I can learn to trust a person, an individual, but not so much so with companies. While you may like the current CEO and technical staff, that can change, and does change, in a heart beat. Evernote has now been through at least 4 CEOs, and a complete turnover in their technical staff. The venture capital companies that own most of the private stock in Evernote could decide tomorrow to radically change the focus and staff of Evernote, focusing more on ROI than on customer security. IAC, most computer break-ins are facilitated by an insider with the necessary access. So while the company, the investors, and the users may all think the company has great security from being hacked, that can all be undone in moment by an insider. Bottom line: I don't put anything in the Evernote Cloud that could harm me if read by someone else. And just to "keep the honest people honest", I have been using AES-256 encryption to further protect sensitive documents. I've just learned that may not be good enough, and so now I'm switching to GPG. For my highly sensitive documents, I just keep them on my local drive, encrypted with GPG if necessary. I don't bother with Evernote Local Notebooks because they offer no advantage to me. The Mac Spotlight search tool is excellent, I would say even better than Evernote Search. I can store my sensitive docs in well organized folders, with Finder tags as needed, and Spotlight easily finds them. The Mac also offers a "FileVault" which encrypts everything. Finally, just like a company insider can do the most damage, the same is true for our households. It is sad that the police report that most violence to a family member is done by other family members. So that means you must also keep your Mac or PC secure from others in your home, even your spouse/significant-other. At a minimum, that means that, if you share a computer, each person has a separate login, and each user account is properly secured from other users. Just my 2¢. YMMV. Good luck to all, and may all your stuff be secure.

And none of us here are qualified security expert professionals. I would NOT guess, nor accept the opinions of anyone here without first doing your own research to either find the expert opinion of security professionals about Excel security (or any other file type), or to directly ask the security pro. I used to think that PDF files using 256-AES encryption were very secure. Looks like may not be true. From https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/10/03/pdf-encryption-standard-weaknesses-uncovered/ Good luck to all. May all your data be safe and secure.

That's nice that Word Windows treats a paste of a link in that fashion. It appears there is a difference between Word Mac and Word Windows, although I am running Office 365, so I'd expect them to be the same. Of course, each app can choose to handle a paste differently. That's why I like my Mac AppleScript, because then it always pastes as a rich text hyperlink into all rich text apps/fields. There may also be a difference of what EN Mac and EN Windows puts on the Clipboard.

Since you are running EN Windows, I don't know how to do this in Windows, but on the Mac I have an AppleScript that will create a rich text hyperlink of the selected EN Note, using the Classic/Internal URL. Much nicer than the long, ugly URL. It looks like this: How to Turn OFF Dark Mode in Evernote [EN Note] which uses the EN Mac Classic link like this: evernote:///view/3010149/s27/1026879e-1aeb-4606-bd7b-4035f98a50a5/1026879f-1aea-4609-bd7z-4035f98a50a7/ I append "[EN Note]" to the end of the Note title so that I will immediately recognize as a link to one of my EN Notes. NOTE: The above link won't actually work for anyone as I've used a bogus classic link ID. If anyone is interested in the Mac AppleScript, let me know and I'll be glad to share.

You can set a Reminder without a date for each item (Note) to be read. Then, in the Note List, click on the Reminders view, and you can manually move each Note to the order you want. Here is an example I made up just to illustrate this method: As you get a new book, set a Reminder for it and it will appear on this list. Then drag/drop, if needed, to put in the reading order you want. NOTE: I have a Tag named "Books", and I have assigned that tag to all books I want to read. Then I filtered the Note list on that tag. For convenience, you move one Book Note to "Open in a new tab", then filter that Tab. This leaves your main EN Tab free to general use.

Well, since this is for the Mac, I assume you meant "OPT-Clicking". When you say "all", do you mean the first two items?

Here's my version: set today to current date set numDays to 1 -- set to number of days in future set futureDateStr to short date string of (today + (numDays * days)) tell application "Evernote" set {oNote} to selection set reminder time of oNote to date ((text returned of (display dialog ("Evernote Note:" & return & title of oNote) default answer (futureDateStr & " 8:00 am") with title "Set Reminder Date"))) end tell something is causing this image to appear twice.

You guys might be interested in this simple code to get the date as an ISO formatted string: set dateISOStr to text 1 thru 10 of ((current date) as «class isot» as string)

@DTLow, I like the idea of your script, but it won't run as is. I think you forgot to include parts of your script that define 'theNote" and "yyyymmdd".

That's fine. My point is that others, including me, have found another solution. So your statement is not correct: "Doing a full clean as described above seems the only workaround at the moment" No one asked you to vouch for other methods.

Actually, that is NOT correct. I and others have successively stopped the EvernoteSpotlight popup by deleting the EvernoteSpotlight plugin. Details are provided above.

I agree with @PinkElephant, just start using CTRL-SHIFT-V (Windows) or CMD-SHIFT-V (Mac), and I think before long it will become muscle memory. It has for me, and I don't even have to really "think" about it when I want to paste and match style. BTW, on the Mac, CMD-SHIFT-V is used by most Mac apps to paste and match style. I have created my own shortcut key to match for the very few that are not, so no matter which Mac app I'm in the shortcut is the same.

Thanks for sharing. This looks very useful. Now I just have to figure out how to create such a Siri Shortcut!

You will probably find better support for AppleScript developer questions at AppleScript for Developers topics - Script Debugger Forum . I can tell you this: Accessing Evernote via AppleScript does NOT require any use of the Evernote API. Catalina presents new challenges for all apps, especially those that want to interact with other apps. Selling an app through the Apple Mac Store presents additional restrictions and challenges. Many developers have opted to sell directly from their own web site to avoid these issues. Good luck.

This topic has been discussed at length here: See Evernote Backup and Restore Options

Hey Ian, thanks for taking an interest in this topic, and for jumping in. We all really appreciate the attention you are paying to a sound restructuring of Evernote. Obviously I don't see a difference, since I made that statement. 😎 I have three succinct points about having Evernote "fully hierarchical Notebooks that work like OS folders": This would be very intuitive for just about all users, since all of us have used either the Mac or Windows OS, and know how OS folders work. They are essential for modeling real-world objects, like Projects, that are inherently hierarchical. Their use with tags is very, very powerful, allowing us to file Notes in an organized structure, while still allowing cross-cutting categories, easily overcoming the "where to file" issues several users have raised. If you'd like some detailed examples of this please let me know. Finally, if you do provide fully hierarchical Notebooks, I don't see a need to change how tags work in Evernote.

If you are using a Mac, you could automate this workflow with either AppleScript or Keyboard Maestro. KM makes it easy to use AppleScript and other Actions to quickly write a Macro to automate workflows. Highly recommended.

My records indicate it started as early as EN Mac 7.11 running on macOS 10.14.x (Mojave). As noted above, doing a clean reinstall is a major undertaking. The spotlight crashes stopped for me after I removed the EvernoteSpotlight plugin several weeks ago. See above for instructions.

I'm running macOS Mojave, so I can't comment on Catalina. It works fine on Mojave.