How to Bulk Import Files into Apple Notes: It's EASIER Than You Think!

Want to import your Evernote PDF Export into Apple Notes? Have a long list of Scanned documents you want to bulk import into Apple Notes? Then this video is for you!
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[@d_a_r_i_o]

WOW! Very impressive solution Tom-I must say that I have transferred all my Evernote notes to apple notes and am finding it frictionless and fit for purpose.

[@paperlessmovement]

Thanks for your kind feedback 💚

[@tccalvo]

Hi. Thanks for the great tip. I tried following the steps on your video, but got stuck on the part where you append the name to the note and cannot get my scrip to work. Can you please share with us the shortcut you've created?

[@moserbua]

I have the same issue. My script stops for every file and forces in a dialog to choose ´new note ˋ by pressing done. What’s wrong here?

[@strengthbydesign]

Thanks, I am trying to learn as much about Apple Notes as possible because of the without notice 85% price increase in my Evernote subscription. I’m moving over to Apple Notes.

[@robertlee7605]

I am considering this but as always the issue is not getting a lot of files INTO Notes but OUT of notes if required

[@robyn7]

@@robertlee7605the people who made the Bear app have s little program that exports apple notes. They give it out for free.

[@feioi]

After upgrading my MacOS, iOS and iPadOS to the newest version, all the notes created this way are titled "Attachment". Is there a way to re-name them as the file names?

[@KlausRiedel]

Same here... :( Any Tips? - edit: all pdf's got the title "attachment" - pictures or videos create a note with their file name...

[@KevinJandus]

@@KlausRiedel Same here. I'm at a loss. How do you simply name the Note with the file name of the PDF you imported?

[@eivanlc74]

Great solution! Do you know though how to import to apple notes your old mixed notes in Evernote? By mixed I mean with text and pdfs files on the same note. Following the usual export from Evernote doesn’t seem to work with pdfs.

[@Eismaus]

Helpful. Thank you! I will definitiv try this. I just thought, is it possible to add the file extension as #Tag? That’s way I could filter all notes with a video, or all notes with pdf ..

[@paperlessmovement]

Great idea! It should be possible as there are many parts of the file you can select in this automation 🙌

[@sandraarn]

This is really impressive!! 👍👍👍

[@paperlessmovement]

Thanks for sharing this great feedback 🙌

[@rerexx]

I can't find a way to attach the name to the note. I can't get the "Append Name to Note" step to work.

[@rerexx]

It has worked now. I had an error in the routine.

[@seragsdks]

@@rerexx what did you fix exactly>?

[@thomasmann6416]

Finde auch langsam Gefallen an Apple Notes. Wenn ich meine Dokumente mit Notes "einscanne" und irgendwann mal das System wechsel, wie bekomme ich dann am besten hunderte Dokumente wieder aus Notes raus?

[@OliverMark0001]

vergiss es. Zum Einen gibt es einen Unterschied, ob die PDF durchsuchbar ist oder nicht. Also Apple Notes OCR´d die Datei nicht. Evernote hat seit mindestens einem Jahr keine meine importierten PDF mehr OCR´d und wurde damit komplett nutzlos für mich. Nach dem Export der .enex Dateien (mit all den nichtsuchbaren PDF), brauchte ich Obsidian um die PDF aus den einzelnen Notes zu extrahieren. Dann habe ich alle PDF mit PDFify erneut ge-OCR´d. Und am Ende ganz einfach im Finder liegen lassen. Der findet dann auch alles. Wenn ich die OCR-PDF in Apple-Notes übernommen habe (was leider auch per Bulk nicht geht (bei OCR!), und dann wieder exportieren will, so ist der Export wieder nicht durchsuchbar. Alles überhaupt nicht ideal.

[@thomasmann6416]

@@OliverMark0001 Ich benutze Quickscan für OCR... Also am einfachsten einfach eine Ordnerstrucktur im Finder anlegen und dort lassen. Grafisch nicht so schön wie Notes, aber funktioniert...?!?! ;)

[@rerexx]

Das Video ist sehr hilfreich. Aber können Sie den Schritt mit dem Namen an die Notiz anhängen erklären? Diese Option wird mir in den Kurzbefehlen nicht angeboten.

[@rerexx]

Es hat jetzt funktioniert. Ich hatte einen Fehler in der Routine.

[@leichthammer]

Könntest du freundlicherweise teilen, wie genau du es geschafft hast (oder gleich den shortcut)? Herzlichen Dank!!

[@lundbrad]

I'm making the move from Evernote to Apple Notes. Some of my notes are self-created notes and others are scanned pdfs. It doesn't appear that all of the pdfs are searchable in Apple Notes. Evernote made every pdf searchable, but Apple Notes not the case. Have you figured out a solution to make the pdfs searchable before you put them into Apple Notes?

[@OliverMark0001]

my Evernote "killed" all OCR in the last year. I asked for help and EN told me, it should have been fixed. But it was not. So now I use PDFify to OCR all my EN-exported PDF (I used Obsidian to get this done: it can import .enex and separate the PDF into a folder - I could not find any program that could do this). Then I PDFified all these PDF (it took...long) and now I have them inside a folder. The easiest way is to use the Finder to search them. This workflow in this YT Video does not work at all. There is a shortcut to get the OCR-PDF-Text inside of a new Apple-Note, but not the PDF (it can't even get JPG into Apple Notes). So I guess, it is not a bug, it is a feature. You shall not use Apple-Notes to bulk PDF (when they are OCR´d!), you can import the "dumb" PDF without the OCR, but I don't need that.

[@vcab5319]

thx a lot Tom after Evernote's latest news with that hacked email i urge to run away from Evernote definitely! The thing is i've got over 11,000 notes