Comments on: Use Mac OS X Services to Import Files into Evernote

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:45:42 +0000

Great tip – note it also works on several selected files at once, have just imported a load of receipts and all appear as separate files

By: teophag

teophag — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:50:06 +0000

Absolutely cool, useful and intelligible walkthrough. Well done.

For those who might wonder, in case you want to create a note from a text selection then you should replace “create note from file x” with “create note with text x” in the syntax.

By: Kirk Walchek

Kirk Walchek — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:31:05 +0000

I scan documents, receipts, etc into Photoshop. I usually save these as a PDF by choosing Print>Save as PDF. There are several workflows such as: “Save PDF to web receipts folder” and “Save PDF to iPhoto”.

I'd like to write a workflow that would “Save PDF to Evernote”. Can you help me with that?
Thanks,

By: Ken Clark

Ken Clark — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:24:29 +0000

Scott– That is a great idea. Very cool indeed! –Ken

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:07:07 +0000

I took this a step further for ease of use and automation. For those of you with Hazel…
I added a new automation with Hazel for a specific folder on my desktop called Scans. As soon as I scan a document into that folder, Hazel sees the file and runs an automator script. I used Ken’s script from above and created a Workflow (not a service) … the only other thing that had to be added was Get Selected Finder Items and I added it directly above the Applescript.

In Hazel’s automation, simply define the folder that Hazel is to “keep and eye on” and set up the automation conditions to ANY file and the actions are 1. Run the Automator Workflow that you saved earlier and 2. Move the file to the trash. There are tons of others ways to do this, but this works great for my needs. I am a Premium Account Holder, and now that I have this running, I will scan EVERYTHING to Evernote.

By: Ken Clark

Ken Clark — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:41:36 +0000

Strange… I am not sure where the process is breaking on your machine. All you should have to do is copy the text from the text area in the blog post and then paste into the text area in the “Run Applescript” action in Automator. Worst case though is you might just want to retype it if you aren’t able to figure out what’s going on.

By: awarre

awarre — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:03:05 +0000

Just started using a Mac and have had Evernote acct for a while was excited to stumble on your blog but i can’t figure out how to get AppleScript into Automator Copy and Paste doesn’t work

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:55:59 +0000

hi ken,

thanks for this great tip. but is there a way to tweak the applescript to import selected text into evernote, much as can be done through yojimbo? i often clip definitions from apple’s dictionary, and using the elephant in the menubar’s “paste to evernote” feature does a poor job, as it strips the rich text formatting.

By: trav

trav — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:55:53 +0000

this is amazing, thanks so much. Just started using evernote and just found your blog. Sweet!

By: Ken Clark

Ken Clark — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:49:50 +0000

Thanks Stan. Glad it worked for ya!