Evernote 6.0
Goals
- Connect direclty to Evernote API even for searching notes
- Search Evernote within Alfred window
- Add notes based on clipboard content, text selection, file, email or typed directly in Alfred window
- If the note is added from Safari, Chrome, Firefox or Mail app save also the URL
- Start Evernote automatically if necessary
Triggering
Keyword enHelp
Learn about Evernote workflow.
Keyword en
Use it to search notes content, titles and tags.
The workflow will display up to 20 notes but the total found will be displayed in the first item. Refine the search to find what you want or click Show in Evernote to continue your search from there.
You can basically search like if you were using Evernote. For example:
- use asterisk as wildcards e.g. xm*
- search in a notebook e.g. notebook:internet
- search only in title e.g. intitle:something
- search for a tag e.g. tag:something
- search for a tag with wildcard e.g. tag:some*
In addition, you can list all your Notebooks by typing a single hash sign:
Then you can select one by hiting return key and then search only in this notebook (after a second hash sign):
Direct Paste: paste the selected note text content directly in another application e.g. a text editor or email.
How to use Direct Paste:
- while writing a document with your text editor for example, bring Alfred and type the keyword en or ent (or use one of the hotkeys)
- after finding your note, highlight it, hold control key and hit return key
- The note text content will be pasted to the editor
Keyword ent
Use it to search in notes titles only.
The workflow will display up to 20 notes but the total found will be displayed in the first item. Refine the search to find what you want or click Show in Evernote to continue your search from there.
You can also use asterisk as wildcards e.g. xm*
Keyword ennew
Use it to add a new note with the clipboad content, text selection, files selected in Finder, messages selected in Mail app or with the text typed in Alfred window. Finder and Mail features will be available only if there is something selected in these applications and they are the topmost one.
ennew without any file or message selected:
ennew with a file selected in Finder:
ennew with a message selected in Mail:
What you can do while creating a New Note using the keyword ennew:
- type the note title (from clipboard, text selection and file from Finder) e.g. ennew my note title
- type tags (comma separated) after typing a hash sign e.g. ennew my note title#tag1,tag2
- add a new note to an existing notebook, or a new one, after a second hash sign e.g. ennew my note title#tag1,tag2#My Notebook
- If you are willing to type a new note the title and the note content will be the same
- Hold control key to append text to an existing note
How to append:
- Highlight one of the note content e.g. Type a Note
- Optionally type the note content and add tags (comma separated) after a hash e.g. ennew my note#tag1,tag2
- hold control key (the subtitle will indicate the appending operation) and hit return key
- a list of notes (only titles will be searched) will be displayed in Alfred
- type something to find your note then select it and hit return key
Mail special feature
You can select messages from Mail then bring Alfred window, type the keyword ennew, then select New Note from Messages Selected in Mail.
The new note will have:
- Message subject as the note title
- Message received date as the note creation date
- Message URL or Link as the note source URL
- A short header (basic email information such as sender)
- A plain text version of the email content
Keyword typenote
Use it to easily create a note by typing in Alfred.
Read about tags, notebook and appending above.
Keyword ensync
Use it to make Evernote synchronize.
Note that in order to make all features work properly the workflow will automatically synchronize Evernote after a new note is created or changed.
Hotkeys
The workflow provides 5 hotkeys:
- en - go to search note content and title
- ent - go to search note title only
- typenote - go to type a new or append text to a note
- New Note from Clipboard - creates a new note with the clipboard content (no interaction)
- New Note from Text Selection - creates a new note with the text selection (no interaction)
File Action
Add files to Evernote from Alfred file browser.
Fallback Search
In order to use this feature add it in Alfred 2 Preferences>Features>Default Results then click Setup fallback results button.
What’s new
Version 6.0
- Easily import selected messages in Mail
- Imporved New Note from Text Selection if topmost application is Mail
- URL and email URL added to source URL field of the note (instead of appended to the end of the note)
- Improved support for multiple selected files in Finder
- New Note from Finder Selected Files: note creation date will be the file one (thanks to dantetemp)
- List all notebooks and search from one of them: use keyword en then type a hash sign e.g. en #
- Several internal improvements including support for Alfred 2.0.3 (187) that fixes some issues regarding AppleScripts
Version 5.0
- Save the new note in an existing notebook or in a new one e.g. MyNote#MyTags#Notebook
- Append text to an existing note
- Automatically synchronize Evernote after a note is created or changed
- Added ensync keyword to make Evernote synchronize
- Added enHelp keyword
Version 4.5
- Paste a note directly to the topmost application (e.g. search a note, hold fn key and hit Return key to paste the note content into the editor)
Hotkeys to search
Version 4.0
- New note with tags supported: just add # followed by the tags (comma separated) at the end e.g. My Note#Mytag1,Mytag2,Mytag3
Version 3.5
- search result will display up to 20 notes (total found in “Show in Evernote” subtitle) making the workflow hopefully usuable for huge collection of notes
- new ent keyword to search directly only in notes title
- improved fallback search: the search result will be displayed in Alfred instead of Evernote itself
Version 3.4
- Support for check and update using Alleyoop workflow
Version 3.2
- 3.2 Add note from a file (Alfred File Action and File from Finder)
Download
- Version: 6.0
- Release date: 10 May 2013
- Made in OS X 10.8.3
- Add File from Finder requires Evernote 5.0.7 from www.evernote.com
- Supports Alleyoop 2
- Download now
Beta (next workflow version but still in progress)
- keyword ennew: hold command key to create a new note and open it right after
- keyword enscan: it will start OSX Image Capture, wait for it to get ready (it usually scans a preview) and then click the Scan button (no matter what language) automatically*
- keyword en: it is possible to preview (SHIFT key) the note in Alfred window; the preview is in HTML which shows all note instead of a small screenshot of it
* To use scanning feature please check Enable Access for Assistive Devices in the Accessibility in System Preferences
* Don’t forget to set Image Capture to work with Evernote. See a good tutorial here. In resume, drag Evernote.app (from Applications folder) into “Scan To” pop up control of Image Capture window.
Download Evernote 6.5 beta now
PS: post wrote in Byword and converted using Markdown to BBCode workflow
Edited by Carlos-Sz, 17 May 2013 - 08:21 PM.
