Importing NoteTaker files

Importing NoteTaker files

by Rallx - 08:23AM, Nov 06, 2003

I have been using the competition, NoteTaker, for some time but would like to transition to NoteBook for its superior speed and cleaner interface. So, I need to import about 150 pages from 6 different NT files into NoteBook. However, NoteBook says that there is a problem with the .opml files generated by NT, either single pages or whole multipage files.

Any suggestions on how to accomplish this with a minimum of hassle while preserving as much as possible the structure of the existing NT notebooks?

Thanks

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Jayson

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01:08PM, Nov 06, 2003

Send me a sample file or two (to support@circusponies.com) and I'll see what's going wrong.

Also, please send me any messages you find from NoteBook in the Console (/Applications/Utilities/Console). Generally when NoteBook puts up an error sheet it sends more specific information to the Console that's helpful in debugging.

Jayson

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05:53PM, Nov 07, 2003

For those of you following this thread, it looks like NoteBook doesn't like the encoding that NT used to export the file. It was ISO-8859-1, better known as ISO-Latin1. I'm not even sure if that's kosher for XML. But anyways, exporting from NT as OPML and choosing UTF-8 from the encoding popup appears to work around the problem.

ghostwriter

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08:30PM, Nov 11, 2003

This UTF-8 option worked perfectly for me after numerous unsuccessful tries. Now I can forge ahead and not have to keep flipping back and forth between programs. Thanks!

ginopiazza49

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06:04PM, Nov 14, 2003

ghostwrriter,

Can you describe step by step what you did to import NoteTaker docs to NoteBook?

Gino J. Piazza

Jayson

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11:58AM, Nov 18, 2003

BTW, the v171 release should now correctly read OPML files with ISO-Latin encoding.

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