###This is currently a Proof-of-Concept
You would think I could come up with a more clever name, but...no.
A python script I made for myself, and thought I'd share here, just in case someone else wanted to use it, or better yet, improve it.
This is my first-ever python script, so be gentle.
Wouldn’t be possible, or at least not as pretty without markdown2
Because I'm tired of living a double life. Day One for my personal thoughts, and Evernote as my personal knowledge base. Why can't we all just get along?
- Python 2.7 +
- Day One Journal (Duh)
- Evernote account, set to create entries from email. You can get your Evernote email address from your account page, under Account Summary.
- Gmail account to send your notes from. Why Gmail? because I use it, and I wrote this script for my own use. Don’t like it? Change it.
- Open up your terminal to wherever you stuck this folder.
- type
python dayone_to_evernote_sync.py - follow the onscreen prompts to fill in your information, this is all stored in a simple XML file, so you don’t have to enter it time and time again.
- Your Gmail password, however, is not stored, so you will have to enter that each time
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You can expect errors I think I have all of the encoding errors out of the way, but the only way to be sure is to test it more. However, as long as I’m using Gmail, after a while of transferring, the SMTP connection closes.
Traceback (most recent call last): File "dayone_to_evernote_sync.py", line 246, in smtpserver.sendmail(gmailadd, enmail, msg.as_string()) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 700, in sendmail File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 441, in rset File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 366, in docmd File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 343, in getreply smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected: Connection unexpectedly closed
Until I’m told otherwise, I just restart it, and it seems to work.
File "dayone_to_evernote_sync.py", line 139, in <module>
result = plistlib.readPlist(filename)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plistlib.py", line 78, in readPlist File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plistlib.py", line 406, in parse xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: no element found: line 12, column 39
This comes from a bad Day One Journal entry. The file is probably truncated for some reason.
- You will probably hit Google’s outbound daily email limit. This is the biggest reason for integrating with Evernote’s API instead. But, this is just proof-of-concept.
- Doesn’t do photos right now. Sorry kids, I don’t use photos in Day One, so it wasn’t on my list of priorities.
- Tags are only recognized as tags if they already exist in Evernote. This is a limitation of creating Evernote entries through email instead of their API
- Not a “true” sync, in that, if you update old entries, they won’t overwrite your entries in Evernote. There is basic checking so that the script won’t process files that have only been processed; it should only send new files.
- Eventually, I’d like to add support for photos
- integrate with Evernote API, rather than using email
- add better unicode support.
- better error handling
- learn more about programming in python
That’s all I can think of right now. Enjoy!