Automatically Creates Notes to Support Meal Planning and Grocery Shopping in Evernote

EvernoteNoteCreation.py

# Uploads a Grocery list Todo note and a Meal Plan formatted note

import datetime
import time
import sys
import evernote.edam.userstore.constants as UserStoreConstants
import evernote.edam.type.ttypes as Types
from evernote.api.client import EvernoteClient

sys.path.append('evernote-sdk')

# Function that helps with title of Meal Plan and Reminder Setting
def nextWeekday(d, weekday):
    days_ahead = weekday - d.weekday()
    if days_ahead <= 0: # Target day already happened this week
        days_ahead += 7
    return d + datetime.timedelta(days_ahead)

# Get Evernote Ready with Auth and setting Note & User stores up
authToken = ''
client = EvernoteClient(token=authToken, sandbox=False)
noteStore = client.get_note_store()
userStore = client.get_user_store()

# Begin creating Grocery List

groceryNote = Types.Note()

# Set the Title
groceryNote.title = 'Grocery / Pharmacy'

# Set the destination notebook
groceryNote.notebookGuid = ''

# Generate note content
# The content of an Evernote note is represented using Evernote Markup
# Language (ENML). The full ENML specification can be found in the Evernote
# API Overview at
# http://dev.evernote.com/documentation/cloud/chapters/ENML.php

groceryNote.content = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'
groceryNote.content += '<!DOCTYPE en-note SYSTEM ' \
    '"http://xml.evernote.com/pub/enml2.dtd">'
groceryNote.content += '<en-note>'

# Open a text file and add standard items that are needed every week
inputFile = open('GroceryListTemplate.txt')
try:
    for i, line in enumerate(inputFile):
        groceryNote.content += '<en-todo/>' + str(line) + '<br />'
finally:
    inputFile.close()

groceryNote.content += '</en-note>'
groceryNote.content = groceryNote.content.encode('utf-8')

# End Creating Grocery List

# Begin Creating the Meal Plan
mealNote = Types.Note()

# Find out when Monday is so we can automatically set the Week Of in the title
nextMonday = nextWeekday(datetime.datetime.now(), 0) # 0 = Monday, 1=Tuesday, 2=Wednesday...

# Set the title
mealNote.title = 'Meal Plan for Week of %s-%s-%s' % (nextMonday.year, nextMonday.month, nextMonday.day)

# Set the destination notebook
mealNote.notebookGuid = ''

# Generate note content
# The content of an Evernote note is represented using Evernote Markup
# Language (ENML). The full ENML specification can be found in the Evernote
# API Overview at
# http://dev.evernote.com/documentation/cloud/chapters/ENML.php

mealNote.content = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'
mealNote.content += '<!DOCTYPE en-note SYSTEM ' \
    '"http://xml.evernote.com/pub/enml2.dtd">'
mealNote.content += '<en-note>'

# Read formatted file that contains the meal plan
mealNote.content += open('MealPlanTemplate.htm').read()

mealNote.content += '</en-note>'
mealNote.content = mealNote.content.encode('utf-8')

# init NoteAttributes instance
mealNote.attributes = Types.NoteAttributes()

# Reminder Creation Stuff
thisSaturday = nextWeekday(datetime.datetime.now(), 5) # Get the date of the upcoming Saturday
saturday_at_8 = (datetime.datetime(thisSaturday.year, thisSaturday.month, thisSaturday.day, 9, 0)) # Set the time to 9am on the upcoming Saturday
saturday_at_8_milliseconds = time.mktime(saturday_at_8.timetuple()) * 1000 # Convert to Timestamp that Evernote can understan
mealNote.attributes.reminderTime = saturday_at_5_milliseconds

print "Uploading to Evernote..."

# Create the notes
createdGroceryNote = noteStore.createNote(groceryNote)
createdMealNote = noteStore.createNote(mealNote)

GroceryListTemplate.txt

Avocados
Eating Fruit (Apples, Bananas, Strawberries, etc)
Onions
Garlic
Sweet Potatoes
Red Potatoes
Collard Greens
Whole Milk (2 Half Gallons)
Steel Cut Oats
Beans (Canned and Dried)

ListNotebooks.py

from evernote.api.client import EvernoteClient

dev_token = ""
client = EvernoteClient(token=dev_token, sandbox=False)
userStore = client.get_user_store()
user = userStore.getUser()
print user.username

noteStore = client.get_note_store()
allNotebooks = noteStore.listNotebooks()

for notebook in allNotebooks:
    print notebook.name + "     " + notebook.guid

noteGuid = "a05f2dac-7290-439c-afa5-8aa8065b010c"
note = noteStore.getNote(noteGuid, True, False, False, False)

MealPlanTemplate.htm

<div>
    <b>Sunday</b> ()<br/>
    <ul>
        <li>Item</li>
    </ul>
</div>
<br/>
<blockquote>
<div>
    <u>Make Ahead</u><br/>
    <ul>
        <li>Item</li>
    </ul><br/>
</div>
</blockquote>
<div>
<b>Monday</b> ()<br/>
<ul>
    <li>Item</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br/>
<blockquote>
<div>
    <u>Make Ahead</u><br/>
    <ul>
        <li>Item</li>
    </ul><br/>
</div>
</blockquote>
<div>
<b>Tuesday</b> ()<br/>
<ul>
    <li>Item</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br/>
<blockquote>
<div>
    <u>Make Ahead</u><br/>
    <ul>
        <li>Item</li>
    </ul><br/>
</div>
</blockquote>
<div>
<b>Wednesday</b> ()<br/>
<ul>
    <li>Item</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br/>
<blockquote>
<div>
    <u>Make Ahead</u><br/>
    <ul>
        <li>Item</li>
    </ul><br/>
</div>
</blockquote>
<div>
<b>Thursday</b> ()<br/>
<ul>
    <li>Item</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br/>
<blockquote>
<div>
    <u>Make Ahead</u><br/>
    <ul>
        <li>Item</li>
    </ul><br/>
</div>
</blockquote>
<div>
<b>Friday</b> ()<br/>
<ul>
    <li>Salmon</li>
    <li>Couscous</li>
    <li>Brussels Sprouts</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br/>
<blockquote>
<div>
    <u>Make Ahead</u><br/>
    <ul>
        <li>Item</li>
    </ul><br/>
</div>
</blockquote>
<div>
<b>Saturday</b> ()<br/>
<ul>
    <li>Item</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br/>
<blockquote>
<div>
    <u>Make Ahead</u><br/>
    <ul>
        <li>Item</li>
    </ul><br/>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br/>
<b>Week Make Ahead</b><br/>
<ul>
<li>Bread</li>
<li>Yogurt</li>
<li>Other Items</li>
</ul>