Filing files to Evernote

Questions & Suggestions
1

Hi,
been looking around and did not immediately see a previous question regarding filing files to Evernote using Keyboard Maestro.
I have taken a look at the Third Party Action extension, but it does not fit the purpose.

So, what do I want to do: select a file (or multiple files) in Finder, and add these to Evernote. Each file as a separate note, and the file name without extension as note title.

In the Keyboard Maestro macro itself I would like to add some tags as well.

PS: I have an Applescript which I use in Hazel and Automator to do this, but I struggle with the Keyboard Maestro migration…

tell application "Evernote"
   activate
   create note from file theFile notebook {"myNotenook"} tags {"myTag1", "myTag2", "myTag3"}
end tell

PPS: the advantage of doing this via Keyboard Maestro is that it syncs the behavior to all my machines, which is magic!

2

Hey Selsro,

That's easy.

Don't be scared by the error-handler which is bigger than the script.   :smile:

-Chris

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# Add files selected in the Finder to Evernote.
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try
  
  tell application "Finder" to set finderSelectionList to selection as alias list
  if finderSelectionList ≠ {} then
    tell application "Evernote"
      activate
      repeat with theFile in finderSelectionList
        create note from file theFile notebook {"myNotenook"} tags {"myTag1", "myTag2", "myTag3"}
      end repeat
    end tell
  end if
  
on error e number n
  set e to e & return & return & "Num: " & n
  if n ≠ -128 then
    try
      tell application (path to frontmost application as text) to set ddButton to button returned of ¬
        (display dialog e with title "ERROR!" buttons {"Copy Error Message", "Cancel", "OK"} ¬
          default button "OK" giving up after 30)
      if ddButton = "Copy Error Message" then set the clipboard to e
    end try
  end if
end try
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1 Like
3

ccstone,

thanks for the swift reply.

In addition: let’s say that I want to use this one script, but based on the Keyboard Maestro if statements, want to make the Notebook and Tag “string” variables.
Is this easily done?

4

Hey Selsro,

You can use Keyboard Maestro's user input to save same into a variable or variables and then access them easily with AppleScript.

tell application "Keyboard Maestro Engine"
  set myVarName to value of variable "kmVarName"
end tell

So I would't quite say it's easy, but it's not all that difficult either.

-Chris

5

Chris, that's a very nice, simple, script to get the job done.
EverNoted.

6

Hi guys,
I wanted to add something to the script.
After adding the file(s) to Evernote, they can be trashed.
So I added this lines right after the Evernote “create note” statement.

set posixFile to POSIX file theFile
tell application "Finder"
  move posixFile to trash
end tell

However, I get following error.

Evernote got an error: Can’t get POSIX file (alias "Macintosh HD:Users:xxx:Dropbox (Personal):Action:xxx-receipt_2016-05-26_16-06-4 copy.pdf").
Num: -1728

As an AppleScript newbie I’m a bit lost here…

7

Hey @selsro,

You’re trying to mess with posix-files in the Finder. It doesn’t like them especially.

On top of that you’re trying to tell an alias to a file that it’s a posix-file - that doesn’t work too well.

In my script theFile is already an alias – a file-object-specifier the Finder understands.

Moving an item to the trash using its alias is simple:

tell application "Finder"
  set finderSelectionList to selection as alias list
  if length of finderSelectionList = 0 then error "No files were selected in the Finder!"
  set theItem to item 1 of finderSelectionList
  delete theItem
end tell

* Note – an alias in AppleScript is similar to but different from an alias file in the Finder.

-Chris

8

Was looking for a macro that would move files in finder to Evernote. Looks like this is it. However, there are several edits along the way and I was wondering if someone could post a complete .kmmacros file that has passed the test of time.

Thanks.

Tony