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How to Automatically Transfer Evernote Notes to Omnifocus By Let’s talk about two popular programs: Evernote and Omnifocus. Omnifocus excels at managing tasks but it is weak in storing lots of information. Evernote is weak as a task manager but excels at storing lots of information. If you use them together, they should solve all your productivity problems right?
Unfortunately, it isn’t that easy. You have two separate systems that do not automatically work together. It is up to you to figure out how to do that and this is usually causes problems for some. For example, if you store something in Evernote, how do you make sure you will revisit that information at some point in time?
The obvious answer would be during your weekly Omnifocus review. However, that means you need to create a task in Omnifocus to remind yourself to review that note in Evernote. This is where the hiccup is – that extra step that people tend to forget. Fortunately, we have a script that will automatically transfer notes to your Omnifocus inbox.
You will never ever forget information in Evernote again. Quick Summary. Script that transfers Evernote notes to your Omnifocus inbox. Use Lingon to run the script on regular intervals.
Tag any note with “review” and it will be transferred to Omnifocus. NOTE: The fastest way to learn Evernote is by checking. Written by our friend Brett Kelly (who works at Evernote) he will show you step-by-step how to use Evernote the right way with plenty of examples.
NOTE: The script seems to work sometimes due to Mavericks/Yosemite update. We have written before. You can use Evernote’s Note Links to link from back Omnifocus tasks to a specific note in Evernote. This is already a great step forward and if you want to use the two programs together you need to know this feature.
However, like I said before, that extra step of manually creating a task and copying the note link to Omnifocus is what a lot of people forget to do. I’ve created a script that will create a new task in your Omnifocus inbox each time you want to review something you just stored in Evernote.
I have to give credit to Nick Wild of 360 Degrees Media for making the script. He left a comment behind on the that does this. All I’ve done was I tweaked it a little bit but all credit goes to Nick.
Evernote To Omnifocus Script Here is what this script does:. It checks your Evernote and it will look for a tag called “review”.
Each time it finds a note with that tag, it will automatically create a task in your Omnifocus inbox. Name of the task is “Review: NAMEOFNOTE” (NAMEOFNOTE is the name of the note in Evernote) and adds a link back to the note in Evernote in the notes field of the task. Removes the “review” tag from your note in Evernote. This means that each time you want to review a note from Evernote, just tag it with “review” and the script will automatically create a task in your Omnifocus inbox for review that contains a link to that specific note. Installation Here are the requirements and steps:. Convert the script into an application.
Install (Lion and up) or (Snow Leopard and older). Use Lingon to launch the script for scheduled intervals. I’ll cover each step in detail.
Please read the instructions carefully to make it work. It’s not difficult but you do need to pay attention to details. Download the script. NOTE: The script seems to work sometimes due to Mavericks/Yosemite update. Once you have downloaded the script, extract it and put the script in a folder.
You should see a file called Evernote2Omnifocus.scpt (SCPT indicates it’s an Applescript). I suggest you create a new folder “Applescripts” in your home/username folder. For example, in my case it is /Users/thanh/Applescripts/.
Convert the script into an application. Double click on the script and by default you should have Applescript Editor open the file. You should see something like this. Save the script as an application that can be launched within Applescript Editor. Verify you have the same settings. You should now have a file called Evernote2Omnifocus.app (the extension.app might be hidden in your Finder but that’s okay).
Install Lingon If you open the app you just created, it will run and close right away. It does work. Try it out: tag a note in Evernote with “review”, run the app and you should see a new task in your Omnifocus inbox. The problem is, you want to have this script run on a regular basis – not just once. For this, you need ($2.99) by Peter Borg – this is the program that will call the script every 30 minutes (or whatever you set the interval to).
If you use Snow Leopard or older, you need. Unless you know how to work with Apple’s launchd program that involves editing XML files and editing files for launching programs on scheduled intervals, I highly suggest you get Lingon. It’s much easier to use and well worth the price.
Use Lingon to launch the script for scheduled intervals Launch Lingon and you should see something like this. Lingon startup screen. Click on the plus icon for a new job on the top left corner. You will get a screen where it will ask you to save a file in LaunchAgents folder. Type in “Evernote2Omnifocus” and the program will automatically create a file called Evernote2Omnifocus.plist. What happens here is that the Evernote2Omnifocus.plist will store all the instructions for launchd (the program that comes with OS X) to run the app on startup and on fixed intervals.
Now you will be asked to fill in some info and instructions. Name: Evernote2Omnifocus. What: Click on the Choose button and select the Evernote2Omnifocus app you created in step two. Tick the box Every and set the interval to 1 hour (or change it to your liking). Click on Save & Load.
Here’s how that looks like. The settings for your application. Choose your own interval but I have mine set for every hour. Now the script will run on a set interval and transfer any notes from Evernote to your Omnifocus inbox for review. Just remember to tag your note with “review” if you want to have it stored in your Omnifocus inbox. Empty your Omnifocus inbox on a regular basis and you will never forget any Evernote note again! For any questions, bugs, comments and more – leave a comment below.
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Update: As Bryant in the, if the script’s launch interval is shorter than Evernote’s sync interval, you run the risk of the task not getting linked to the Evernote entry. Evernote doesn’t create a link until it is synced. Posted in.
I see my comment above from months ago when I first contemplated using this script. I have been using it for some time now and it works great! I use it in connection with another script that sends all my email from Gmail into OmniFocus, and then I go through ALL of my stuff including email from a single Evernote inbox each night, and tag the do-list items with this handy EN to OF script.
I am about to update from EN 5.5.2 on Mac to 5.6.2, which is numbered like a small incremental update, but EN is saying it is “entirely rebuilt” under the hood. Can anybody confirm whether the script still works with it? To fix the issue where un-sync’d notes won’t have a note link in Omnifocus, just add the following code under “set enLink to note link of aNote”: if enLink is missing value then -SYNCHRONIZE WITH EVERNOTE'S SERVERS synchronize repeat while enLink is missing value -GET THE NOTE LINK FOR THE CURRENT NOTE set enLink to (note link of aNote) end repeat end if This seems to be working perfectly. Basically, if a note it finds with the tag (“review”) has no link, it calls Evernote to sync and then just loops until a link is finally given to that note. Should only one once, since any sync would give all notes a link in one go. Doens’t bother syncing if all notes have a link already.
I cant get this to work at all and I really would like it to. Details: OS X – 10.8.4 OmniFocus – 1.10.4 Evernote – 5.2.1 (401587) I have my home or inbox normally set to @Inbox. However, I setup another Inbox in Evernote thinking that the path was throwing off the script.
I have tried a capital “R” and a lower case “r” in each of the inbox folders in Evernote. I am just trying to get the script to work. I am not even to the point of getting it automated with Lingon! I am clicking on the “Run” button in the AppleScript window and I briefly see “Running” in the log window and nothing at all happens. Can anyone help a AppleScript neophyte to try and get this thing working???? I use these 2 applications extensively and would love to even expand the script further if I could get this version running properly allowing me to tweak some of the tags!!!!!! Thanks in advance!
Thanks for this useful tip. Really appreciated. It saves a lot of time. This maybe irrelevant to Omnifocus, But I wonder this: Is there any script that moves notes with certain tags to certain notebooks?
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For example I have a notebook called “Bills and Receipts”. I have a set of tags that every note tagged with one of the set, such as “Water Bill”, “Electricity Bill” and so on, will go to the notebook I have searched some but found none. Only this is useful: But I have no knowledge in writing scripts. I’ve tweaked a little: After set AppleScript’s text item delimiters to savedDelimiters I’ve added these two lines — Alter title of note set the title of aNote to ((the title of aNote) & ” # Sent to Omnifocus”) unassign tag todoTag from aNote And removed the section at the end that deletes the tag Two advantages to me. Tweaking the note title means I know it’s gone to Omnifocus (if I’m reviewing Evernote) Un assigning the tag individually means it doesn’t get deleted.
Useful if you’re also email into Evernote etc notes (where the lack of tag means it won’t get added) Evernote now becomes a pass through inbox. Essentially an ‘Action Support’ HTH.
I want to suggest small fix (trick) on the use of Lingon here: Instead of making it launch every hour, you can make it to launch every time a new clip is added into Evernote. The advantage is, you don’t have to wait for 1 hour for your task to appear in OF.
You can immediately get your task into your OF inbox, as soon as you clipped the page. Here is how: Instead of marking Every 1 hour in Lingon, click on the Path, and point to your note.index folder of your evernote app. The note.index folder is available in: user/library/application support/Evernote/user/note.index Everytime you clip a webpage (update evernote app), the app launches and sends the ling to OF inbox. If you don’t clip, it doesn’t launch. I think this is better. Confirming the new bug.
I don’t know AppleScript but am familiar with basic scripting and programming concepts. Tried the following work-around, w/o success (hopefully it will help others more knowledgable with AppleScript to debug): I replaced “delete tag” with “unassign tag”, and moved the statement right after the end of the main repeat loop. End repeat try unassign tag todoTag from foundNotes on error errmsg –do nothing when it can’t find the tag end try end tell. — still got the same error (‘error number -1728 from tag “review”‘). Mountain Lion, Evernote 5, and OmniFocus 1.10.4 I’m using the above updated software and am able to run the script. BUT, I’m running it directly from within AppleScript Editor. I will say, though, that if you’re having trouble with the script, check first whether you have compiled again after editing your variables (if you edited them) and check also that you aren’t using spaces (e.g.
“To Do” is no good, “ToDo” is fine). This probably isn’t the issue for most, but I’m hoping it’ll help a person or two.
Wonderful App. Small challenge however. I might be the only one but looking for “help” from anyone that has an answer. I am an OF and Evernote user of many years. I often forward emails to Evernote and tag the “Subject” line. (works great) @ (is for notebook) and (# is for tag).
IF you forward an email to EVERNOTE with a #tag that does not exist it does NOT tag it and it does not create the TAG. Problem I’m having: If I TAG the email #Review and send it in.it will NOT tag it.
Because Evernote doesn’t have the TAG available. If I CREATE the TAG in evernote. THEN send in the email with the #Review, it works perfectly. (Ready for issue) 6. The SCRIPT strips the TAG from EVERNOTE.
100% clear as to WHY, no issue. If it didn’t, then the notes would be repeatedly entered in OmniFocus. However, in the process it does STRIP the TAG entirely from EVERNOTE.
Big Question: Am I just limited to tagging each EVERNOTE as “Review” independently? OR is there a solution to the Script that doesn’t strip the TAG as a resource only strips the TAG from the actual item.?? Thanks in advance.
(Amazing stuff you guys have here). I confirmed with Evernote that there is no way to “create a new tag” via email. If the tag doesn’t exist it will not be applied. Random idea: Fix to the issue. Along the same lines as the current App benefit. If it is created to go in and look for anything with a Tag of “Review” and then applies to OF and then cleans out “Review” from the tags. There is probably a SECOND script/app that can use this same line of thinking in reverse (to a degree).
A process that runs following to go into Evernote and create a Tag “Review”. It will not be applied to any note but it could be added to the Tag Library. This way, when the email sends in the information to Evernote, the tag will always be available. Just a thought.
Hey Thanh, Thanks for the wonderful tip. Do need some help though, as I have very little knowledge of programming/coding. When I run the application version of the script, I get a “change path-cannot find evernote” error.
When I looked at the path destination, I didn’t see a difference. I tried changing the code of property notepath from “/Library/Caches/Metadata/com.evernote.Evernote/” to “/Users/adhamija/Library/Caches/Metadata/com.evernote.Evernote/” and as expected didn’t see any difference. Any tips/advice? Thanks for this much needed tip!
Great way to close the “last mile” between Evernote and Omnifocus. Just as others have suggested alternate methods to launch the script, I might suggest use of Keyboard Maestro for those of us who use that tool (if you aren’t, you should be!! Lot’s of great things you can do to simplify so many things on your mac) It is a simple 2 step Macro in Keyboard Maestro: 1. Create a new a Macro that is triggered by “Application Trigger” Choose OmniFocus and change it to “Is Running” and set your desired repeating frequency 2.
Add an action to “Execute an AppleScript” Change the action to “Execute script file” and enter the path of the script you saved. Works like a charm. This looks really useful. Would it work if both Evernote and Omnifocus are running in one User Account while another User Account is active?
Background: I use Omnifocus on iOS, Windows at work and have an iMac as the home PC. I would like to use the magic of cloud syncing to enable the following workflow: 1. Write note in Evernote and tag with the “Review” tag. Note is synced from my device to Evernote cloud and from Evernote cloud to Evernote on iMac at home. Omnifocus on iMac syncs this note in the background as long as my User Account is running on the iMac. Task is synced to the Omni cloud.
Omnifocus on iOS syncs with the Omni cloud to bring the task to my devices. I realize this would not be an instantaneous sync but I’ve been considering getting Omnifocus for the iMac and this would probably tip the balance for me because it would be a much easier way to link Evernote and Omnifocus. To answer my own question, it looks like this works. I was writing a note in Evernote on Windows and it automagically appeared in my Omnifocus inbox on my iPhone. I am not 100% sure if it was my user account that was active on the iMac at home but in principle, it looks like it is working how I wanted.
One point to note – I tagged the note with the “review” tag when I started writing it and when the tag was stripped out by the script, it caused a “Conflicting Changes” note in Evernote because the note had been changed on 2 devices at the same time (I was still actively editing it in Windows). Not a big issue as I was able to recover all my notes from the Conflicting Changes folder but it looks like it is better to tag when the note is finished rather than at the start. Thanh and Nick: this automation between EN and OF is wonderful, thank you!!
I chanced upon your site only a few days ago and have discovered several very helpful tips, but this one wins the prize! I’d like to mention one small glitch in the system as I use it, and it might also affect others: It appears that the script deletes the “review” tag entirely, as opposed to stripping the tag from individual notes. No big deal, you can easily recreate the tag. However, I make extensive use of emailing into EN, and to automatically add a tag to notes the tag must already exist. I am not familiar enough with Applescript to attempt changes, but I wonder you guys have any suggestions on a workaround. Many thanks and keep up the great work!
Because cron has technically been deprecated by Apple, I figured out how to do it using launchd. Open a text editor and past this code: Label com.yourname.en2omni OnDemand Program /insertyourpathhere/Evernote2Omnifocus.app/Contents/MacOS/applet StartInterval 900 Save it to your /Users/yourusername/Library/LaunchAgents folder with the name local.en2omni.plist In the string field for the Label key, replace “yourname” with your username. In the string field for the Program key, replace “insertyourpathhere” with your path. Following Thanh’s example, it would be: “Users/thanh/Applescripts”. Right now, the update interval is set to 15 minutes. To change it, change the “900” in the integer field of the StartInterval key to the number of seconds you want OmniFocus to wait between updates.
A reboot should start the demon for you. If you don’t want to reboot, you can launch it from the command line by entering the following command: launchctl load /Users/yourusername/Library/LaunchAgents/local.en2omni.plist. This is brilliant! You can achieve the same functionality as the lingon part of the process with ‘Cron’ which is already built in, of course. Cron automatically runs scripts as often as you choose. Open a terminal, and type “crontab -e”, press enter, then type a capital A then enter this line:./10.
/insertyourpathhere/Evernote2Omnifocus.app/Contents/MacOS/applet then press escape, then type:x enter That will run the script every ten minutes. To change the frequency, change the 10 to a different number of minutes. Thanh, Just a note to say that I set up the script and it, of course, works perfectly. I just wanted to let anyone who has not tried this just how fantastic it is: When the script is triggered it creates a new task in the inbox of Omnifocus and in the note filed it inserts a link to the note back in evernote.
But this is the best bit – it’s not a url to the web based evernote. It is a link to the note within the native app. This is great. And it gets better if you use Omnifocus and evernote on an iOS device. The same link in Omnifocus takes you to the evernote note in the native iOS app.
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