In this post, I mentioned a Meetings workflow I use frequently. Here is a brief summary.
The overall workflow can essentially be divided into 3 parts:
Launch Meetings Workflow.is workflow at start of meeting
Capture meeting notes in Drafts
At finish of meeting, run Drafts action to find any to-do’s, save in Reminders and then save final notes in Evernote
The Meetings Workflow enables choice of meeting from calendar and then creates a formatted template that is passed in to Drafts. The workflow gives 3 choices:
Blank - Prompt for note title. Create basic template.
Basic - Choose meeting from calendar. Create basic template with note title from chosen meeting
Verbose - Choose meeting from calendar. Create template with meeting information including attendees and any notes from meeting request
The Evernote step is setup to store the note in a specific notebook I use named “. Working”. You’ll see that in the Evernote step. I’m not sure how Drafts behaves if the specified Notebook doesn’t exist. You may want to try changing the Notebook to one you use already.
Apart from that, I don’t see anything else that is unique to my environment that would cause this to not work.
I changed the script a bit so it looks for the Drafts Tasks (on the Keyboard-Basic task ribbon), which is “[ ]” as I couldn’t figure out how to write the square
Most of my other Drafts actions related to Evernote are in the “Append to Note” category. I have a variety of notes I use for frictionless capture of common list things (eg, restaurants to try, movies to watch, key work accomplishments, etc). I’ve been playing with moving those to a Drafts workspace, but Evernote is my “Everything Box” so not sure what my long term home will be.
I do have a few Evernote workflows I use on my Mac triggered by Alfred. Those include a similar “Meeting Workflow” triggered from highlighted meeting on my calendar. I need to write a post on this one, too.
I love this! Thanks. I’m a huge Evernote user. I’d say 50% of my work is done in EN everyday. So I will enjoy putting this workflow to use. On the other hand, I haven’t quite been able to crack drafts yet. Where did you all start with it? I saw David post a couple screencasts the other day that I found helpful but I don’t quite understand what people are using it for or how they’re setting it up?
I’m still trying to figure this workflow out. Bear with me, I’m still new to using and understanding Workflow. I run the workflow on my iPad, (using blank option). I type in the title, it opens up in Drafts. I write 2 sentences in the Discusson section, and then I add some tasks using the shortcut key on the iPad that inserts [ ] before each action item.
I then tap on Services from Drafts (new note in Evernote). A new note is created but everything is crammed into like 2-3 lines of text, it’s no longer divided as nicely as it what in Drafts.
Also, couldn’t see where the action items went after that. Didn’t see them in Reminders.
The step where you may be getting off track is the Drafts Action. When you are finished typing your notes, ie the meeting is finished, choose the action “Meeting Finish” from your Drafts Actions. This is the Action linked in my original post.
It is that action that formats the note for Evernote, parses the lines marked as to-dos and sends to Reminders. I hope this helps — jay
