Why Not Just Use Evernote?
Redirecting to (308). Day One Physical Therapy 1939 Pleasanton Rd. San Antonio, Tx 78221 PHONE: (210) 922-8300 FAX: (210) 922-8304 OFFICE HOURS: By Appointment Only MON-FRI 8 AM-6 PM eMail Day One. That means that when you create a note to act as reminder to do your journal entry, you’ll only be able to set the reminder for one date. So what I do is set it for the next day (after all, I’m already in Evernote and ready to go with today’s entry) and set the ideal time for me to be reminded. For Note-taking. I recently attended a Photoshop class where the lecturer shared an Evernote.
I’ve been using Evernote for several years, which is great, the best features to me are:
- Multi devices synchronization
- High quality app on iOS/Android and OSX
- Very good search in notes (even in the photos)
Though lately I found myself write less an less in Evernote, if I’m writing something long, then usually I will use MacVim, may copy the text back to Evernote. If I need to write a couple of line, the process to write in Evernote is like this:
- Switch to Evernote
- Find the note for current day (each day I will have a new note.)
- Go to the end of the note
- Write something
- Switch back
Feels a bit heavy, also there is no information about when I did add the line into the note.
Day One
Since 2013 I started to use Day One, which is a very beautiful application(has OSX and iOS versions) for note taking. Here is the reasons that I like it:
- Quick note adding widget in menubar, which can be triggered by a global shortcut
- Markdown format, rendered very nicely as well.
- Dropbox synchronization, iCloud supported as well.
- Every note has a timestamp.
- Calendar view for all the notes.
- Look and feels very nice.
Then the process to add a quick note will be:
- Using the global shortcut.
- Type, then Cmd-Enter to save it.
It’s much more light-weigh comparing to the Evernote way.
Why Not Just Use Day One?
One major missed part in
Day One
is the lack of Android support, also the search is not as good as evernote, another problem is that you can not see all the notes in one day at once, you have to mouse over each item to see the whole content, which is a bit annoying IMO.Dayone 2 Evernote
So I wrote a very simple script to export
Day One
entries as a summary note in Evernote.![Day one evernote 比较 Day one evernote 比较](/uploads/1/1/8/7/118779467/816939166.png)
Timestamps will be added in front of each entry.
The summary note will look like:
They will not be converted to HTML format, since I prefer to keep the plain text format in Evernote, and MarkDown notes looks very nice as plain text to me.
Note that since I used the applescript to save the note, it only works on OSX. Also there is some tricks to keep track of the last saved date. Check the README in the repository for more informations.
The code is: https://github.com/yjpark/dayone2evernote
Importing Day One to Evernote
After a massive struggle from Day One to Evernote to Simplenote to txt document solutions including Write for Mac, Byword and 1Writer and back to Day One, I’ve had to settle for Evernote and its lack of offline access.
![Day one evernote 比較 Day one evernote 比較](/uploads/1/1/8/7/118779467/236368443.jpg)
Searching Day One to Evernote comes up with some 2012 solutions that just don’t seem to work. This solution isn’t entirely automated, but I managed to transfer 125 entries in Day One to Evernote in 30 minutes using this method:
1. Export Day One entries to a text document using the built in menu command.
2. Rename the export file
entries.txt
3. Open up the terminal and move to the directory where you exported Day One.
4. Type
python
to open the python shell (python is pre-installed on OS X)Day One Evernote 連携
5. Paste the following in and press enter
6. Drag the exported text files into the Evernote notes list (you’ll need at least 1 note there already to do this)
Day One Import From Evernote
7. Go through your imports manually entering/copying the note title and copying and pasting the string of tags (you can pass multiple tags at once).
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Obviously this process could be tidied up a bit, but the lack of an existing and working automated process suggests people just want to get on with things…fair enough. Let me know if you have a better way.
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(Source: ubuntuforums.org)