Possible to user the sidebar for listing and navigating notes and notebooks?

[rkpatel33]

This would count as a feature request, but have you ever considered, or would be even be possibl to use the sidebar to display the notebook and note hierarchy in Evernote? By extension would be be possible to navigate notes like one navigates files in a sublime project (ex: cmd+p to search and open files)?

[bordaigorl]

Eh that would be cool but:

1. the side bar cannot be manipulated as a view can from a plugin. This means you have to create a real folder with the files containing the notes in order to implement this.
2. this would turn the plugin from a thin client to a fat client, i.e. the operations are not performed by the server but locally with occasional synchronisations.

A half-solution is scheduled to happen in the future: eventually I will like to support the note id in the metadata (see #1) so that you can keep markdown files locally and synchronise them to the Evernote service. But I cannot promise it will happen in the near future.

[rkpatel33]

Thanks, make sense but worth asking!

[PhilipWhiteside]

I have seen some very interesting things done by sublime plugins by very clever people such as yourselves. So please forgive me for my ignorance of the ability of sublime plugins.

Your point 2 makes sense to me, but I don't see it needing to be fully fat in that way. The list could simply be a list of titles which upon selection is downloaded as if it was pulled form the command palette. Then saved back up to evernote. No local saved copies and no synchronisation. Just a viewing and clicking mechanism.

Would it be possible to do this with an editing pane, rather than the actual side panel, say you had the 2 vertical split panel and shrunk one to be a thinner side panel. I have seen some be able to search for a file within the tree ./MyTaskList.todo/ and open that in an editor pane.

With those in mind, could a editor pane be populated with a plain text list of all the notes within Evernote by title (with indentation signifying notebooks/stacks, which can be collapsed using ST normal method). Then the user can go into that, click on the line of the title they wish to open, press a hotkey which triggers your plugin to pull that note down as it currently does through the command palette.

The list could be formatted in a way like so, with the UUID so that you know which one to pull. Then using a theme file make the title visible, the UUID the same or almost the same as the background and don't wrap the text, so that long UUIDs just fall under the other editor panes.

I hope that makes sense. Just an idea of a possibility that could be explored.