script & launchd config for backing up Evernote to git repo

backup-evernote-html.sh

#!/bin/bash

backup_dir=/Users/jacob/Backup/evernote-html

# thanks to http://veritrope.com/code/get-note-links-in-evernote-for-newly-created-notes/ for how to wait for sync to finish
osascript <<END
with timeout of (30 * 60) seconds
  tell application "Evernote"
    synchronize
    repeat until isSynchronizing is false
      delay 10
    end repeat
  end tell
end timeout
END

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
  osascript -e "display notification \"Failed to force synchronization.\" with title \"Evernote Backup\""
  exit 1
fi

cd $backup_dir
git rm -r .

osascript <<END
with timeout of (30 * 60) seconds
  tell application "Evernote"
    repeat with curNotebook in (every notebook)
      if (count of notes of curNotebook) > 0 then
        set notebookBackupDir to ("$backup_dir/" & (name of curNotebook))
        do shell script ("mkdir -p " & notebookBackupDir)
        export (find notes ("notebook:" & (name of curNotebook))) to notebookBackupDir format HTML
      end if
    end repeat
  end tell
end timeout
END

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
  osascript -e "display notification \"Failed to export notes.\" with title \"Evernote Backup\""
  exit 1
fi

cd $backup_dir
git add .
git commit -m "$(date) from backup script"

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
  changes=$(git show --stat HEAD | grep changed)
else
  changes="No changes."
fi

git gc

osascript -e "display notification \"$changes\" with title \"Evernote Backup\" subtitle \"HTML export completed.\""

net.brokensandals.evernote.backup.html.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>net.brokensandals.evernote.backup.html</string>
    <key>Program</key>
    <string>/Users/jacob/dotfiles/bin/backup-evernote-html.sh</string>
    <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
    <dict>
      <key>Hour</key>
      <integer>4</integer>
      <key>Minute</key>
      <integer>0</integer>
    </dict>
  </dict>
</plist>

Updated 2019-03-24 to prevent script from failing when it encounters an empty notebook, and to add notifications so that such errors are not swallowed silently.