Reverse ordered blocks of text with code

[jonteamere]

I keep a running list of quick-jots in Evernote. They are compiled by prepending text, separated by "––", to an already existing note (vs appending). Appending created too many spacing errors for my liking.

 

I'm looking for a way to select all text (and inserted images) and reverse their order; in HTML preferably so that already existing font-styles are preserved.

 

Example note content in Evernote:

 

This item is noted here.

––

Another item is noted here.

- This is a bulleted item under previous note

- This is another bullet

––

Yet another item is here...

 

...and so on

 

Any ideas or existing workflows?

[dfay]

Here's how I'd do it:

 

create a Hotkey with Selection in MacOS as argument

 

pipe that to a bash script object containing the following script:

 

query=$1

echo "$query" | tail -r

pipe that out to a Copy to Clipboard object, optionally setting it to paste to the frontmost app

 

 

....but this isn't going to capture HTML/rich styling or images.  If Evernote lets you view the HTML source, you could select the source and run the same script - that would handle your images, then you'd need to run some other code to clean the HTML tags so the open and closing tags aren't flipped (there's the trick with HTML -- you're reversing the content, but the order of the tags actually needs to stay the same & not be reversed).

Edited March 28, 2017 by dfay

[deanishe]

@dfay I'm thinking @jonteamere wants the order of the notes reverse, not the lines.

 

If that is the case, it would almost certainly be easier to fix whatever issue is causing your spacing errors with append.

 

Fix append: strip extra leading/trailing lines before appending. There's an action in Alfred for it, and it's not even a one-liner in any programming language worthy of the name.

 

Reverse prepended notes: Extract HTML from Evernote. Parse HTML. Identify which tags belong to which notes. Reverse the order of those collections of tags. Replace the note content in Evernote with your updated HTML.