Purpose
- create new note titled as the selected text
- add forward and backward links
Set up
- create a service called 'wikify' with applescript
- 
Applescript
on run {input, parameters} set note2 to {} set link2 to missing value tell application "Evernote" set note1 to (item 1 of selection) set title1 to (title of note1) set link1 to (note link of note1) --TEST TO SEE IF EVERNOTE IS CURRENTLY SYNCHRONIZING... repeat until isSynchronizing is false --THIS EMPTY LOOP WILL PAUSE SCRIPT UNTIL PREVIOUS SYNC IS FINISHED end repeat --CREATE THE NOTE set note2 to create note title input with html "Back to <a href=\"" & link1 & "\">" & title1 & "</a>" --SYNCHRONIZE WITH EVERNOTE'S SERVERS synchronize --PAUSE UNTIL THERE IS A VALUE FOR NOTE LINK repeat while link2 is missing value --GET THE NOTE LINK FOR THE CURRENT NOTE set link2 to (note link of note2) -- set the clipboard to link2 end repeat tell note1 to append html "<a href=\"" & link2 & "\">" & input & "</strong>" end tell end run
a better script found online: https://gist.github.com/smargh/7668654
on run {input, parameters}
	
	tell application id "com.evernote.Evernote"
		set Evernote_Selection to selection
		if Evernote_Selection is {} then display dialog "Please select a note."
		repeat with i from 1 to the count of Evernote_Selection
			--get appropriate note data from current note
			set noteURL to note link of item i of Evernote_Selection
			set noteName to title of item i of Evernote_Selection
			set noteNB to name of notebook of item i of Evernote_Selection
			set noteHTML to HTML content of item i of Evernote_Selection
			--generate the hyperlink
			set html_ref to "<a href=\"" & noteURL & "\">" & noteName & "</a>"
			
			--get the selected text from the clipboard
			set newTitle to input
			--create the new note, with the hyperlink back
			set newNote to create note title newTitle with html html_ref notebook noteNB
			
			--synchronize to assign server data to new note
			repeat until isSynchronizing is false
			end repeat
			synchronize
			repeat until isSynchronizing is false
			end repeat
			
			--get appropriate data of the new note
			set newURL to note link of newNote
			set newName to title of newNote
			set newhtml_ref to "<a href=\"" & newURL & "\">" & newName & "</a>"
			
			--replace the selected text with a hyperlink
			set newHTML to my replaceString(noteHTML, newTitle, newhtml_ref)
			set HTML content of item i of Evernote_Selection to newHTML
			
			--synchronize again to finalize everything
			repeat until isSynchronizing is false
			end repeat
			synchronize
			repeat until isSynchronizing is false
			end repeat
			
		end repeat
	end tell
	
end run
(* HANDLERS *)
on replaceString(theText, oldString, newString)
	-- ljr (http://applescript.bratis-lover.net/library/string/)
	local ASTID, theText, oldString, newString, lst
	set ASTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters
	try
		considering case
			set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldString
			set lst to every text item of theText
			set AppleScript's text item delimiters to newString
			set theText to lst as string
		end considering
		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ASTID
		return theText
	on error eMsg number eNum
		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ASTID
		error "Can't replaceString: " & eMsg number eNum
	end try
end replaceString
- create keyboard shorcut 'apple+control+i' to service 'wikify'
Operation
- select text in note1
- type 'apple+control+i' to create note2 in the background
- type 'apple+k' to add link to selected text
- wait till synchnization finished
- type 'apple+v' to add link of note2
References
- Tools: code for evernote: create evernote note title to selected text https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/55564-set-note-title-to-selected-text/
- https://gist.github.com/smargh/7668654
- http://veritrope.com/code/get-note-links-in-evernote-for-newly-created-notes/
- http://veritrope.com/code/mediawiki-evernote-links/
- https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/38682-wikify-evernote-via-applescript/
- http://www.tuicool.com/articles/YBRjAff
- https://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/applescript.php
- http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/4146-wikify-evernote-wiki-helper/
Hide Comments