Evernote

An Alfred Workflow


Short Description

Search, Create, Append, Preview, set Reminders... All within Alfred

Last Updated

02 Mar 2014

Compatibility

Yosemite
(10.10)
Mavericks
(10.9)
Mountain Lion
(10.8)
Lion
(10.7)
Snow Leopard
(10.6)
No Yes Yes Yes Yes
 

Version

8.0
 

Bundle ID

com.sztoltz.evernote
 

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Description

Alfred 2.0 workflow to search and create notes in Evernote.

Search

Keywords

  • ens to search in every note field
  • ens @ to search in a selected notebook
  • ens # to search notes with a selected tags

You can use ent (search in titles only) or enr (search in reminders) or entodo (search to-do notes) or enrec (search notes updated within a week) or enu (search notes with a source URL) instead of ens.

NEW: You can select multiple tags to fine tune your searching. Just add a second hash sign and select or type the tag e.g. ens #tag1 #tag2 :my query

NEW: In addition, you can select a single notebook then tags too e.g. ent @notebook #tag1 #tag2 :my query

Note that, if you want to select a notebook and/or tags, the query goes after the colon sign as seen above.

Actions

  • Return key to open the note
  • Shift key to preview the note
  • Option key to set a reminder
  • Control key to paste the note text content to the top most application
  • Function key to open the note URL
  • Command key to append text (from clipboard, selected text or typed) or selected file(s) in Finder. You can also use it to only add tags to a note. To do so, type or select a tag and don't type anything after the colon then select the source "Type a Note" in the next step e.g. enn #tag :

Note that Alfred Fallback Search is also supported (you have to add it in Alfred 2 Preferences>Features>Default Results, then click Setup fallback results button).

Create

Keyword enn

You can optionally type the note title or, for a more complex creation, follow the syntax below:

@Notebook #tag1 #tag2 !reminder :Title

  • @notebook: after typing @ a list of notebooks will be displayed then select one or type it; the default will be used if omitted
  • #tags: after typing # a list of tags will be displayed then select one or type a new one (multiple tags are supported, type each one after a hash sign)
  • !reminder: after typing an exclamation point a list of reminder suggestions will be displayed then select one or type a custom reminder such as in 4 days or 05/01/2014
  • Title: at the end, after a colon

Note that items of the syntax are optional, however the syntax has to end with a colon, with or without typing the note title e.g. #tag1 :

Note Content Source

  • From clipboard
  • From selected text
  • Typed directly in Alfred (keyword typenote also available only for it)
  • From Safari or Google Chrome URL
  • From message(s) selected in Mail app
  • From file(s) selected in Finder app: you can create one note with files or one note for each selected files. Alfred File Browser also supported.

Actions

  • Return key: create a note
  • Control Key: create a note and open it
  • Command key: append text or file to a note
  • Option key: append text to a note with current date

How to Append

  1. Highlight one of the note content source e.g. From Clipboard
  2. Optionally type tags and a reminder e.g. #tag1 #tag2 !tomorrow
  3. hold command key and hit return key
  4. select a note from the list (search by title only) and hit return key

Mail

  • Message subject as the note title
  • Message received date as the note creation date
  • Message Link as the note source URL
  • A short header (e.g. sender)
  • A plain text version of the email content

Preferences

Bring Alfred and type the keyword enpref:

  1. Quick Look: select Card (Evernote default) or HTML (entire note content)
  2. Search wildcard: select Manual (type an asterisk after the query string) or Automatic (may be slower)

What's new?

  • New syntax to create a note: @notebook #tag1 #tag2 !reminder :Title
  • Select tags and a notebook from a list or type them when searching or creating a new note
  • Create one note for each Finder selected file
  • Create a note from current Safari or Google Chrome URL
  • Keyword enu to search notes with a source URL (default action is to open the URL instead of the note itself)
  • Keyword enr to search and handle due/overdue reminders
  • Keyword entodo to search to-do notes
  • keyword enrec to search notes updated within a week
  • Search with a selected notebook and multiple selected tags at the same time e.g. ens @notebook #tag1 #tag2 :my query
  • Set a reminder (option key)
  • Open note URL (function key)
  • Append text or file(s) selected in Finder to a note from search feature (command key)
  • Append file(s) from Finder
  • Several improvements
  • Bugs fixed

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