New Instructions
Updated 2015-08-24: textutil needs to be informed of input format and Evernote has changed.
I love Brett Terpstra's Marked, and its integration with Evernote is barebones and cool. Anyway, the instructions are:
I love Brett Terpstra's Marked, and its integration with Evernote is barebones and cool. Anyway, the instructions are:
- Get the everwatch-turbo.rb script and put it in your ~/scripts directory (below or here on GitHub)
- Create a directory called ~/evernote-to-marked
- Run it in the background by using this in terminal (adjust if your directory is different)
~/scripts/everwatch-turbo.rb &
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| #!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
| # encoding: UTF-8 | |
| # everwatch.rb by Brett Terpstra, 2011 | |
| # Watch Evernote for updates and put the current content of the editor into a preview file for Marked.app | |
| # <http://markedapp.com> | |
| # Modified by dan@rosenstark.com, 2015-08-24, Evernote 6.0.16 | |
| # TO LAUNCH USE (if in ~/scripts): | |
| # ~/scripts/everwatch-turbo.rb & | |
| require 'digest/sha2' | |
| require 'fileutils' | |
| $debug = false | |
| $last_hash = "no hash yet" | |
| def doEverything | |
| trap("SIGINT") { exit } | |
| path = '~/evernote-to-marked' | |
| FileUtils.mkdir_p path | |
| marked_note = File.expand_path("#{path}/EvernoteSnippetInMarkdown.md") | |
| image_path = "#{path}/images" | |
| FileUtils.mkdir_p image_path | |
| # if you want to do images like  uncomment this line | |
| # `sudo ln -s #{image_path} /images` | |
| watch_note = File.new("#{marked_note}",'w') | |
| watch_note.puts "Your markdown will be arriving shortly..." | |
| watch_note.close | |
| `open "#{marked_note}"` | |
| print_and_flush "Waiting." if $debug | |
| while true do # repeat infinitely | |
| doEverythingInner marked_note | |
| sleep 1 | |
| end | |
| end | |
| def doEverythingInner marked_note | |
| note = get_note_content_from_evernote | |
| unless note.strip == '' # if we got something back from the AppleScript | |
| hash = (Digest::SHA2.new << note).to_s | |
| if (hash == $last_hash) then | |
| print_and_flush "." if $debug | |
| else | |
| $last_hash = hash | |
| note = note.gsub(/<(\/)?b>/, "**") # do the bold | |
| note = note.gsub("'","APOSTROPHEEE") | |
| note = note.gsub("\\","BACKSLASHEE") | |
| # convert the contents to plain text | |
| txtnote = %x{echo '#{note}'|textutil -stdin -convert txt -stdout -format html} | |
| txtnote = txtnote.gsub("BACKSLASHEE", "\\") | |
| txtnote = txtnote.gsub("APOSTROPHEEE", "'") | |
| txtnote = txtnote.gsub("Â", "") # new Evernote weirdness 2015-08-24 | |
| txtnote = txtnote.gsub("\t•","-") # you can use the evernotey bullets | |
| txtnote = txtnote.gsub("\t◦"," -") | |
| txtnote = txtnote.gsub(/\t\d{1,4}\.\t/, "1. ") # use evernote numbering, but only one level | |
| txtnote = txtnote.gsub("\t", " ") # replace tabs | |
| txtnote = txtnote.gsub("\302\240", " ") # some bizarre space-looking character textutil or Evernote uses | |
| txtnote = txtnote.gsub("\t", " ") # all other tabs to spaces | |
| # write the contents to the preview file | |
| watch_note = File.new("#{marked_note}",'w') | |
| watch_note.puts txtnote | |
| watch_note.close | |
| sleep 1 | |
| end | |
| end | |
| end | |
| def get_note_content_from_evernote | |
| # get the contents of the post and continued editor screens | |
| note = %x{ osascript <<APPLESCRIPT | |
| tell application "System Events" to set isRunning to the count of (processes whose name is "Evernote") | |
| if (isRunning > 0) | |
| tell application "Evernote" | |
| if selection is not {} then | |
| set the_selection to selection | |
| return HTML content of item 1 of the_selection | |
| else | |
| return "" | |
| end if | |
| end tell | |
| else | |
| return "" | |
| end if | |
| APPLESCRIPT} | |
| note | |
| end | |
| def print_and_flush(str) | |
| print str | |
| $stdout.flush | |
| end | |
| if __FILE__ == $0 | |
| doEverything | |
| end |
