Analyst444 182 Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 I have a relatively long list of items on my Windows laptop. (I can save it in a variety of formats.) How can I import it into Evernote so that each item on the list becomes a separate Note? (I'd like to avoid copying and pasting them 1-by-1.) I've checked the Help / Learning System at www.evernote.com and I searched this forum for the answer to my question to no avail. Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,248 Posted February 13, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted February 13, 2018 Can you save/print/export each list item as a separate file? Link to comment
Analyst444 182 Posted February 13, 2018 Author Share Posted February 13, 2018 Yes, with some work, but there are hundreds of line items. - - - And I've got other lists with even more items. So, this approach becomes impractical. Never the less, thanks for responding. Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 11,474 Posted February 14, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted February 14, 2018 I'd use a mail merge - in Office I can set up a template that will take data from a spreadsheet and output it as a letter or envelope format. One of the features of that process is to save the output as separate document files so a user can 'print' them later - in essence I can output to TXT or PDF files. I did use that at one stage (not for a while though...) to convert a long list into files and then added those files to an Import Folder which Evernote then obligingly imported to my database. Link to comment
Analyst444 182 Posted February 14, 2018 Author Share Posted February 14, 2018 gazumped - thanks for the responding. Sounds cluggy (that's an undocumented technical term meaning cumbersome, ugly, and dirty!), but I'm feeling that may be the best idea I get on this. I will try it out. Every couple weeks, I come across a list the Internet I'd like to have in Evernote so I could manage it, but I always gave up for lack of an efficient way to get it into EN. Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 11,474 Posted February 14, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted February 14, 2018 Yup - Cluggy is an international term - though in the UK we spell it kludgy, just to be different . You could obviously do something similar in Office with actual VBA programming, but I only ever had the need for it once, so I went for quick and dirty. Link to comment
Analyst444 182 Posted February 14, 2018 Author Share Posted February 14, 2018 Now, a tougher question. How do I assign a tag to each line item outputted from the Mail Merge? Or, what is the format of an ENEX file? How can one be created? Link to comment
Level 5* DTLow 5,734 Posted February 14, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted February 14, 2018 56 minutes ago, Analyst444 said: what is the format of an ENEX file? I could learn the format by creating several notes; exporting; and examining the .enex file using a text editor There's documentation at https://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/enml.php but I don't think you'll need it. Mostly it's standard xml/html Link to comment
Level 5* DTLow 5,734 Posted February 14, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted February 14, 2018 45 minutes ago, Analyst444 said: Now, a tougher question. How do I assign a tag to each line item outputted from the Mail Merge? I'd address this after the notes are created Evernote allows a range of notes to be selected, and block actions like add tags Link to comment
Analyst444 182 Posted February 14, 2018 Author Share Posted February 14, 2018 DTLow - Thanks for responding. Thanks for the pointers. Yes, I agree. I've done some tests with EN, exported some text Notes, and examined them with NotePad. The structure is elaborate, but decipherable. I've got to now wrestle with how I go about building an ENEX from a source list with many line items. More thinking and testing ahead. Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 11,474 Posted February 14, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted February 14, 2018 Dunno if these help - https://superuser.com/questions/466363/how-to-split-a-text-file-into-multiple-text-files https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25249516/split-text-file-into-smaller-multiple-text-file-using-command-line and http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?614401-RESOLVED-VBscript-to-split-text-file-into-multiple-files - courtesy of Google; no personal experience of any of this... Link to comment
Analyst444 182 Posted February 14, 2018 Author Share Posted February 14, 2018 gazumped - I checked out those 3 links. They use programming languages I am not familiar with. However, they did tickle my thinking. I have used Excel's VBA a little. I may create a test list and see if I can build a little VBA program that will output the line items to a new file, one-by-one, and them import them into EN. Link to comment
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