michaelbierman

On 5/19/2017 at 9:13 AM, DTLow said:

My opinion is that Evernote believes there are more important projects for the developers,
however if you really believed that Why are you interested in this product?

Well, I would love to know what has been more important for the many years that Evernote has been developed. As has been pointed out endless times, this is an extremely basic feature. Actually two: 

1. Find/replace within a note. 
2. Find/replace across notes. 

Both are useful. Though I would prioritize them as listed. As someone outside the company I don't like to speculate unless I can point at some evidence. So in my opinion it is just as likely that they: 

1. Have much more important things to do (that aren't evident). 
2. Don't listen to their customers. 
3. Are in maintenance mode and are just keeping the lights on for as long as possible. That means focus on "must haves" like platform updates, devops, etc. 

Unless Evernote staff comments we don't have any idea. Frankly I am going to spend some time with bear and see if it is a suitable replacement. If Evernote is in maintenance mode, it is time to move on. If they just don't listen to their customers, it is time to move on. 

18 hours ago, Calion said:

That…doesn’t answer my question.

Sorry, I should have replied to Amystoneus. 

4 hours ago, Calion said:

Does Bear allow sharing live notes with others? Because if not for that feature, I would have just stuck with MacJournal.

Bear looks like an interesting alternative. It seems to do a much better job with thinks like nested lists which have always annoyed me in Evernote. Evernote just gets in my way when note taking or writing. 

But... to be fair: 

1. The actual cost is much higher than what Bear charges. If you want equivalent functionality you will need to buy iCloud storage
   50GB: $0.99/month (USD)
   200GB: $2.99/month (USD)
   2TB: $9.99/month (USD)
   The total may not save you money. However, if you are just tired of Evernote and it isn't about the money, then that's not an issue. 
2. The migration from Evernote to Bear seems to be very challenging if you have a lot of data stored in Evernote. I'm experimenting but it doesn't look easy.
3. It seems that the process of moving notes from Evernote to Bear loses formatting at a minimum. For some people that's not a big deal or at least acceptable but be aware that things won't move over perfectly.

14 hours ago, Evernope said:

Adding my voice to those of hundreds of Mac users who've been saying on here for the last 5 years that not having find and replace is a really frustrating omission. I admire people who are writing and implementing scripts to do this but it absolutely shouldn't be necessary. 

My personal workround is to scoop out content into TextWrangler, edit it and then paste it back in to EN. Again, shouldn't be necessary.

Find and Replace on multiple notes would be a godsend on the occasions it's needed (in my case not often, but this is one of those times just now). If Dreamweaver can do it, surely EN can. 

I agree it is beyond belief that Evernote hasn't added this. Meanwhile, see my AppleScript which provides a workaround. 
https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/52260-mac-find-and-replace/?do=findComment&comment=497803

8 hours ago, DTLow said:

For the storage and access of Applescripts. see 

 

Yup. Another option is to go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Services and you can set a keyboard shortcut of your own choosing. I made some minor improvements yesterday and uploaded them to github. 

https://gist.github.com/mbierman/1ef3f255ce1ca50bb2fffbf99d715704

here is an AppleScript that does a Find and Replace in EVERNOTE! Thank you, DTLOW !

Note you do have to change the path for databaseFolder. to do that,

1. Go to Evernote. 
2. Hold OPTION key while going to "Help > Troubleshooting > Open Database Folder"
3. Copy that path and include a trailing "/"

26 minutes ago, michaelbierman said:

So Now I get the open directory... do I want to edit snippet.txt ? When I do,  I don't see any change in the note in Evernote. 

So attached is my work in progress. I found the right file to edit and it seems to work pretty well! I'm sure it could be improved but this is a nice start. 

I notice the changes aren't reflected in Evernote until you close and reopen that note. Is there a way to refresh without doing that? 

Evernote_Note_Folder.scpt

8 minutes ago, DTLow said:

You're missing a / at the end of set databasefolder

So Now I get the open directory... do I want to edit snippet.txt ? When I do,  I don't see any change in the note in Evernote. 

Ok I figured out the problem. I didn't have the trailing slash on my path! 

Many thanks

4 minutes ago, DTLow said:

Looks good so far.  A completely different location, but I think thats caused by the App Store version vs the Direct Download
I see you have a localNoteStore folder, just confirm the database name is localNoteStore/LocalNoteStore.sqlite

ZENNote is the table name in the database

Yes, I added a picture above that shows the directory path and what is under localNoteStore.

And thanks. I thought ZenNote was a texteditor or something. 

19 minutes ago, DTLow said:

In his post above, @JMichaelTX included an image of his database folder.  If you post a similar image I will verify the location of your database.

I'm quite sure I have the right location. 

But I do notice that the script is calling ZenNote. I'm not sure what the last two lines are trying to do but I don't have ZenNote installed. 

10 minutes ago, michaelbierman said:

AH! I did not know that trick. Thank you! 

 

So I found the path and tried the script but get this error. 

1 minute ago, DTLow said:

Did you hold down the option key while selecting the Help menu

AH! I did not know that trick. Thank you! 

1 minute ago, DTLow said:

Did you hold down the option key while selecting the Help menu

13 hours ago, DTLow said:

You are correct, I'm using the production version which also doesn't have the troubleshooting menu you mention.

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To use this script, you have to identify the location for your database

As noted I'm using Evernote version v7.1 Beta 1 (456297 Direct).  I suspect you're using the App Store version; I don't know if the app store version works with Applescript

To identify my database location I use
Option Key Help > Troubleshooting > Open Database Folder

 

 

On 3/13/2018 at 3:32 PM, DTLow said:

Thanks this is really helpful. However, I don't have anything under ~/Library/Application Support/ like "com.evernote.Evernote/..."

 

You're editing file <some folder>/content.enml using your favourite editor.  I use Textastic

The script I use to identify <some folder> is below
Evernote_Note_Folder.scpt
Note, the database folder is hardcoded; update this for your own installation; edit I'm using EN  v7.1 Beta 1 (456297 Direct)

The data you're accessing is a copy of the master version maintained on the Evernote servers.  After verifying my update, l make a dummy change (like adding a space in the note).  This ensures the update gets registered and sync'd to the server

 

9 minutes ago, DTLow said:

Yes, search and replace would be do-able  in Applescript.  It would require a direct edit of the note's .enml file

Any resources or code samples you could point me to so I can figure out how to do this? 

Like everyone else, I am baffled by the lack of search and replace in Evernote. Both search and replace in a single note and across notes make a lot of sense. 

Anyone know if this is possible via AppleScript since Evernote seems not to care about users?