Organising your Bookmarks, Articles and Notes [Part 2] (18/01/2013)

An impressive structure

So I had chosen my structure; now to implement!

Color Notes to Catch

First, I set up an account at Catch and downloaded the app to my smartphone.

Secondly, after many hours of researching and playing around with various software, I came to the conclusion that there definitely is no way to transfer Color Note notes to another application other than manually.

The methods I tried:

1. Searching for an app that could import or convert Color Note notes; and
2. Extracting the .dat and .idx file and trying to open these in other programs/change the extension/find a piece of software that would convert them.

So, in the end, I had to use the 'Send to ...' Android function to send the notes to Catch. This was a bit of a pain but a one off as my notes are now in Catch and so sync with my online account and will be much easier to move on in the future (should I need to).

Delicious to Evernote

I wish my bookmarks were this organised....

Well, there are a few ways to do this:

• Dr Palaniraja's importer. A great idea and, whilst it does work for many, it didn't work for me! No matter how much I tried, or the different suggestions in the comments I followed, Evernote would not accept the file;
• Linyows importer. Unfortunately, Evernote no longer supports Google Notebook;
• Rodrigo Juarez. Website no longer available;
• IFTTT recipes. Allows you to run 'recipes' to enable you to import new Delicious bookmarks to Evernote;
• Irvin Ruz and Evernicious. Unfortunately, beyond my technical understanding; and
• Exporting Delicious bookmarks to a HTML file (only option available) and dragging this file into the Evernote desktop application. This creates one note with all your bookmarks listed in it.

As you can tell; I spent many hours trying to find a way round this!

In the end, I concluded that the best I could do was to dump a HTML file into Evernote and have one note of all my bookmarks (very frustrating). I will keep my Delicious account for now and eagerly await an application that can properly convert Delicious to Evernote (or a time when I know enough to operate the Irvin Ruiz or Evernicious code).

Sometimes you just don't have the technology (or knowledge) to do what you want and you just have to accept that...

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