Sunday, 2 January 2011

Exporting Note Everything to CSV - sick of waiting for SYNC

While Note Everything is in general a very good notepad there are two major things wrong with it:

  1. There is no sync which means all editing has to occur on the phone.
  2. They lock you in by not providing any export functions (NE GDocs only allows you to copy a single note at a time into a flat structure within Google Docs).
The first point is the most annoying but the second is my problem getting off Note Everything...

Anyway I had a look at the backup it creates and its an SQLLite DB, I downloaded the open source SQLite Database Browser and dragged the "notes.db" file onto it and viewed the "Notes" table in the "Browse Data" tab.

Using File, Export, Table as CSV file" I created a CSV which looks good. I'll probably want to clean it up depending on what I want to import it into but for now I'm happy :-)

I am now looking for a notepad that syncs notes and can import CSV files.


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