Enwrite 
What wild heart-histories seemed to lie enwritten
Upon those crystalline, celestial spheres!
βEdgar Allan Poe
Evernote-powered statically-generated blogs and websites. Now posting to your blog or updating your website is as easy as writing a new note in Evernote! Post from the Evernote application on any device, use the web clipper, or post by email. Enwrite will pick up the new content and post it automatically!
Still work-in-progress but functional, more docs to come soon.
The first time you run it (or if you use the --auth flag afterward)
you will be asked to open an Evernote authentication page, and then to
provide the authentication code to Enwrite.
For now it produces output suitable for Hugo. You need to have an existing Hugo install. Output to other blogging/site generator tools is planned for the future through output plugins.
Installation
$ sudo gem install enwrite
Make sure you have Hugo installed: http://gohugo.io/overview/installing/
Getting started
Create a new Hugo site for testing:
$ cd ~/tmp
$ hugo new site my-hugo-blog
$ mkdir my-hugo-blog/themes; git clone https://github.com/zyro/hyde-x.git my-hugo-blog/themes/hyde-x
Populate it with contents from Evernote:
$ enwrite --help
Enwrite v0.2.4
Usage: /usr/local/bin/enwrite [options] (at least one of -n or -s has to be specified)
Search options:
-n, --notebook NOTEBOOK Process notes from specified notebook.
-t, --tag TAG Process only notes that have this tag
within the given notebook.
--remove-tags [t1,t2,t3] List of tags to remove from output posts.
If no argument given, defaults to --tag.
-s, --search SEARCHEXP Process notes that match given search
expression. If specified, --notebook
and --tag are ignored.
Output options:
-p, --output-plugin PLUGIN Output plugin to use (Valid values: hugo)
-o, --output-dir OUTDIR Base dir of hugo output installation
--rebuild-all Process all notes that match the given
conditions (normally only updated notes
are processed)
Other options:
--auth [TOKEN] Force Evernote reauthentication (will
happen automatically if needed). Use
TOKEN if given, otherwise get one
interactively.
--config-tag TAG Specify tag to determine config notes
(default: _enwrite_config)
-v, --verbose Verbose mode
-d, --debug Debug output mode
--version Show version
-h, --help Shows this help message
Sample usage
Generate posts from all notes tagged published in notebook
my_notebook:
$ enwrite -n my_notebook -t published -o ~/tmp/my-hugo-blog
$ cd ~/tmp/my-hugo-blog
$ hugo server --watch
Generate posts from all notes matching some search expression:
$ enwrite -s 'some search expression' -o /tmp/my-hugo-blog
Images, audio and video are embedded in the generated posts (audio
and video are done using HTML5 <audio> and <video> tags). Other
file types are stored and linked to with their filename.
Special tags
The following tags trigger special behavior if found within the selected notes:
Globally-recognized tags
-
page: publish the note as a page instead of a blog post. -
post(or none): publish the note as a blog post. This is the default. -
markdown: store the note as Markdown instead of HTML. Markdown notes can still contain images or other formatting, this will be left untouched inside the Markdown file. -
_enwrite_config: the contents of the note must be in YAML format and contain configuration parameters to Enwrite (more documentation about this will be written soon). For example, if you wanted blog posts to be stored in the Hugoblogcategory instead ofpost, you could include this:hugo: tag_to_type: default: blog/ post: blog/ page:
Hugo-specific tags
The following tags are recognized by the Hugo output plugin (the only one available at the moment):
-
_enwrite_files_hugo: text in these notes is ignored, but any attachments are stored under the Hugo output directory..tar.gzfiles will be unpacked under that directory, all others will be stored as-is. You can use this to have Hugo config files, themes, static contents or anything else automatically installed by Enwrite as well. Please note that any "files" notes must also be included in the selection criteria specified by-n,-tor-s(e.g. if you are using-t published, your files notes must also be taggedpublishedor they will be ignored).Any text in files notes will be ignored, so you can use it to make it human-readable. For example, I have the following note in the notebook that powers http://zzamboni.org/new/, so I can start from a plain Hugo site and have it fully customized after running
enwrite: -
Any tags of the form
_foo=barare inserted into the frontmatter for the generated posts as fieldfoowith valuebar. This might be used to add information (e.g. a customslug, specifyweightfor ordeing of pages, or any other field which may control the behavior or output produced.
Other tags
All the special tags described above are removed from the post before
publishing (you can configure additional ones to remove with the
--remove-tags option). All other tags are passed through to the
produced posts. Of course, you could have some of those tags also
trigger special behavior within the output system. For example, my
custom Hyde-X Hugo theme
recognizes the following tags:
_home: set this page as the default for the site._menu=main: add this page to the top-level navigation menu.
Shortcuts
Shortcuts are of the form [shortcutname params]. The following
shortcuts are currently recognized:
- Embed Youtube video by URL or ID. You can optionally specify
widthandheight. All arguments must be enclosed in double quotes.
[youtube url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"]
[youtube src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"]
[youtube id="dQw4w9WgXcQ" width="640px" height="480px"]
- Embed gist.
[gist url="https://gist.github.com/zzamboni/843142d3f759e582fe8f"]
Planned features/fixes
Bugs, feature requests, feedback or other issues?
Please open a Github issue.