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Evernote: Update creation dates based on information in note title
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tell application "Evernote" | |
set theNotes to the selection | |
repeat with eachNote in theNotes | |
set dateflag to 0 | |
set theTitle to the title of eachNote | |
if theTitle begins with "DOS" and theTitle ends with "(Notes)" then -- for Medical Notes (DOS yyyy-mm-dd ... (Notes)) | |
try | |
set the creation date of eachNote to date (do shell script "date -j -f '%F' " & quote & (characters 5 thru 14 of theTitle as string) & quote & " +'%A, %B %d, %Y at %r'") | |
set dateflag to 1 | |
end try | |
else if theTitle begins with "DOS" then -- for other Medical Documents (DOS yyyy-mm-dd yyyy-mm-dd) | |
try | |
set the creation date of eachNote to date (do shell script "date -j -f '%F' " & quote & (characters 16 thru 25 of theTitle as string) & quote & " +'%A, %B %d, %Y at %r'") | |
set dateflag to 1 | |
end try | |
else | |
-- Try date only, then try date and time (set time to midnight for items with just a date) | |
try | |
set the creation date of eachNote to date (do shell script "date -j -f '%F %H%M%S' " & quote & (characters 1 thru 10 of theTitle as string) & " 000000" & quote & " +'%A, %B %d, %Y at %r'") | |
end try | |
try | |
set the creation date of eachNote to date (do shell script "date -j -f '%F %H%M%S' " & quote & (characters 1 thru 17 of theTitle as string) & quote & " +'%A, %B %d, %Y at %r'") | |
end try | |
set dateflag to 1 | |
end if | |
if dateflag is 1 then | |
set the subject date of eachNote to (the creation date of eachNote) | |
assign tag "Script Corrected" to eachNote | |
unassign tag "Script Corrected" from eachNote | |
end if | |
end repeat | |
synchronize | |
end tell |
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