JMichaelTX

16 hours ago, bmat said:

@JMichaelTX I just came across this post.  I'd love to see your script if you feel like sharing. 

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I want to pull out tag and notebook hierarchies into  something like a json file as I am more conversant in python than applescript. 

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:

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If you think it’s worth encrypting your PDFs and you want to be sure they haven’t been tampered with, use a respected third party encryption tool, like GPG.

Also, you may want to read this article from NASA:

Using GPG to Encrypt Your Data -- NASA 

1 hour ago, why? said:

These really are not a security issue for the vast majority of the populace.

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.

5 hours ago, why? said:

I do think there's much scaremongering going on. I read the PDF encryption security may not be safe article, but it requires a particuler set of circumstances and is just not realistic.

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.

11 hours ago, David Daly said:

Quick follow-up: Are there any good pointers on working with Tags in the Mac version of Evernote?

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

3 hours ago, DTLow said:

That's valid; I would include a link in an Evernote note

It is really not up to you to say what is valid or not valid for me.

3 hours ago, DTLow said:

Nope, I'm done with folder filing methodology

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.

10 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

EN runs on servers hosted by Google, probably among the safest places in the world to put data.

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.

10 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

I think EN is running an understandable business model that is based on mutual trust, and a reasonable payment. They do not trade with their customers data, like others do. I would not trust a service that claims to come for „free“ - because there is nothing as a free lunch, day by day.

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.

19 hours ago, Markaseos said:

I am not a security expert and I have no idea about the effectiveness of excel protection but I guess that Microsoft uses advance algorithms in their passwords and security issues.

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/
 

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What does this mean?
As with other formats that share some of the PDF’s security characteristics (XML, S/MIME, and ePub for instance), there is clearly some work to do in terms of AES-CBC’s integrity protection.

This must be fixed in future PDF specifications and any other format encryption standard, without enabling backward compatibility that would re-enable CBC gadgets.

Thanks to the widespread use of TLS encryption, it would be difficult for attackers to intercept and modify PDFs as they move across a network or the internet, whether the documents themselves are encrypted or not. However, PDFs at rest have been shown to be vulnerable.

If you think it’s worth encrypting your PDFs and you want to be sure they haven’t been tampered with, use a respected third party encryption tool, like GPG.

Good luck to all.  May all your data be safe and secure.

21 minutes ago, CalS said:

When you paste into another app after the Ctrl+Alt+L it appears as a link.

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.

5 hours ago, doctorkeo said:

It does look like that is available in the windows version, only Copy Internal Link#

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.

4 hours ago, David Daly said:

Cool -- thanks for sharing. I think that solves a little of the problem of the immediately next thing to read, but after that one paper I then am back to my starting point. I suppose I could also mark the immediately next thing by adding a shortcut also as I don't have too many of those. 

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.

12 hours ago, evrenaute said:

Since I repaired the database by alt-clicking on the Help menu section and choosing all options under that hidden sub-menu,

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

15 minutes ago, hoo22 said:

If anyone else is able to share a click and run AppleScript for me, then I’d love to hear from you.

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)

39 minutes ago, DTLow said:

tell application "Evernote"
     set reminder time of theNote to date ((text returned of (display dialog "Reminder Date" default answer (yyyymmdd & " 8:00 am"))))
end tell

@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".

1 minute ago, PinkElephant said:

There is an ongoing discussion. Since I have not used the plugin approach, I can’t tell anything about it.

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.

1 hour ago, PinkElephant said:

Doing a full clean as described above seems the only workaround at the moment.

Actually, that is NOT correct.

I and others have successively stopped the EvernoteSpotlight popup by deleting the EvernoteSpotlight plugin.  Details are provided above.

1 hour ago, PinkElephant said:

Is it really that difficult to press one additional key when you want to insert without the format ?

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.

11 hours ago, Lord Lillis said:

The fix introduces an extra step. We create a variable “Clop” containing the Current Date. We then use the Evernote “Append” command.

Thanks for sharing.  This looks very useful.

Now I just have to figure out how to create such a Siri Shortcut!

16 hours ago, SteveC_OR said:

I'm a macOS developer who is trying to support Evernote into my macOS application - Kudos.

I want to send some simple AppleScript to Evernote from within my application.

I've written and tested the AppleScript with Script Editor.  Working just fine (BTW Catalina; Xcode 11.4; Evernote 7.14 Basic)

My app is sold through the Mac App Store, therefore I must utilize the privacy controls within Catalina

You will probably find better support for AppleScript developer questions at AppleScript for Developers topics - Script Debugger Forum .

I can tell you this:

1. Accessing Evernote via AppleScript does NOT require any use of the Evernote API.
2. Catalina presents new challenges for all apps, especially those that want to interact with other apps.
3. 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.

21 minutes ago, Troglodite said:

How can I backup all my notebooks in Evernote?

This topic has been discussed at length here:

See Evernote Backup and Restore Options

17 hours ago, Ian Small said:

1) I would be legitimately interested in understanding what others think the difference between these two things are.  To me (admittedly, not having read the entirety of this 11-year-long forum discussion because I think the general drift is right there in the discussion thread title), they seem at first blush to be the same.  Note:  I think this is a question solely about notebooks, not about tags.

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":

1. 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.
2. They are essential for modeling real-world objects, like Projects, that are inherently hierarchical.
3. 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.

33 minutes ago, Civils said:

Can anyone please suggest a good app which makes notes automatically in background in some document

I.e., if I'm reading a PDF or some blog and if I just select the text with my mouse,it should get automatically saved/pasted in some document

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.

3 hours ago, unixjedi said:

This problem seems to be happening since release 10.15 of Mac OS.

My records indicate it started as early as EN Mac 7.11 running on macOS 10.14.x (Mojave).

2 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

with me they happened under Mojave, were gone after I cleaned my installation (see above)

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.

On 2/23/2020 at 9:20 PM, luckman212 said:

@JMichaelTX can you please share any detail of how you got Spotlight playing nice with EN on Catalina?

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