How do I export tags of notes from Evernote using applescript?

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How do I export tags of notes from Evernote using applescript?

Hi,

I am looking for a way of exporting the tags of notes in Evernote to an RTF/CSV file. I have a script that reads/exports all the titles of the notes, but when I try the same with tags I can read the tags, but I'm not sure how to write them to a string/file.

Here is a simple script that reads the tags of a note:

tell application "Evernote"

set the_notes to the selection

set first_note to item 1 of the_notes

set the_tags to (the tags of first_note)

end tell

It returns:

{tag "travel" of application "Evernote"}

But when I try to write this to a TextEdit file by adding:

tell application "TextEdit"

activate

make new document

set theDate to current date

set text of document 1 to the_tags as text

end tell

I get the error: "Can’t make «class EVtg» "travel" of application "Evernote" into type text."

Could someone help to get the script to write the tags of the notes?

Thanks,

Nick

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7), 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 8GB RAM

Posted on Aug 21, 2011 11:57 AM

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Arkouda

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Oct 19, 2011 5:22 AM in response to nick_harambee

Nick

This is from a long time ago, so you probably have your answer already. I was here with another Evernote problem and found yours!

If you are simply trying to get the tag name, you can do something like this to get a string:

tell application "Evernote"

set theNoteBook to selection

set theNote to item 1 of theNoteBook

set theTags to tags of theNote

set theTag to item 1 of theTags

set tagName to name of theTag

--set tagParent to name of parent of theTag

end tell

Note that the line I have commented shows that you can also get the tag's parent tag if it has one.

Hope this is of some use.

-Bernard

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