Evernote Tools

Daily Notes (Log)

  • Creates one new note with titled "Daily Notes for YYYY-MM-DD".
  • The note is created in a Notebook called "Daily Notes".
  • After the note is created, additional calls will append to the note.
  • Useful if used in conjunction with Drafts.

dn : Appends to Daily Notes note.

dn+cmd : Appends to Daily Notes note and opens the the note.

Get Tools

eni : Get selected note's ID in URL form.

Set Tools

esu : Set the selected notes' source URL to the frontmost Safari tab.

Modify Tools

ead : Prepend selected notes' title with date stamp; append note's body with date stamp.

ed : Append selected notes' body with date stamp.

ept : Prepend selected notes' title with with query string.

Set Tags

ets : Tag selected notes with son's name. : You will need to edit this action

etw : Tag selected notes with wife's name. : You will need to edit this action

eto : Tag selected notes with out_board_brain.

etag : Tag selected notes with a single tag.

Log Files

NB: This is just an example of one of my actions, it's easy to duplicate.

eaw : Append to Note "Way of the Future".

Move Selected Notes to a Notebook

NB: This is just an example of one of my actions. It's easy to duplicate.

emcp : Move the selected notes to my Commonplace notebook.

Tag and Move Selected Notes to a Notebook

emcs : Move selected notes to Code Snippets notebook and tag them "code".

emcs : Move selected notes to CHILD_NAME's Artwork notebook and tag them "family" and "CHILD_NAME".

emgi : Move selected notes to Gift Ideas notebook and tag them "gift_idea".

emmw : Move selected notes to Mistakes notebook and tag them "word" and "definition".

Evernote Search Tools

NB: There is more functionality than listed here:

  1. Most search actions can be opened in a new window with the action modifier: cmd.
  2. All Search action have optional queries. Just type the keyword a space and a query term.

es : Basic Evernote search.

eut : Notes updated today.

euy : Notes updated yesterday.

ewr : Weekly Review - All notes updated the past week.

ect : Notes created today.

ecy : Notes created yesterday.

ec1w : Notes created last week.

ec2w : Notes created two weeks ago.

ec3w : Notes created three weeks ago.

ecl : Notes with any checkboxes.

ecl+opt : Notes with unchecked checkboxes.

epdf : Notes with PDF Attachments.

epdf+Shift : Notes without PDF Attachments.

eclip : Notes containing web clippings.

eclip+Shift : Notes without web clippings.

eshared : Notes that are shared.

eiphoto : Notes with images from iPhone. (Mobile)

eiphoto+Shift : Notes without images from iPhone. (Mobile)

emob : Notes created by a mobile device.

emob+Shift : Notes not created by a mobile device.

eapp : Notes created by apps other than Evernote.

eapp+Shift : Notes not created by apps other than Evernote.

etitle : Search for notes that contain the query in the title.

etitle+Shift : Search for notes that do not contain the query in the title.

eimg : Notes that contain image attachments.

eimg+opt : Notes that contain Gif attachments.

eimg+Shift : Notes that do not contain image attachments.

NB: The Following Actions Do Not Have a cmd Modifier.

eaudio : Notes that contain audio attachments.

evid : Notes that contain video attachments.

eexcel : Notes that contain MS Excel attachments.

eword : Notes that contain MS Word attachments.

epp : Notes that contain MS Powerpoint attachments.

A Few Examples Regarding Tags and Notebooks

ecml : Child Medical Log. Searches on two tags: 'your_childs_name_here' and 'medical'.

erbls : Reading Backlog - Security. Searches Notebook "Books to read" and tag "security".

Evernote Templates

See Taming the Elephant: Awesome Evernote Tips and Tricks for how to make templates. I'm currently rethinking my templates, but this is a very simple example of how you can trigger them with Alfred.

NB: You need to add the path to your template file in the AppleScript.

One thing to remember: the content of a note is HTML. You could make some very stylish notes if that floats your boat.