I agree, if you import notes for an existing player, the notes should update to reflect them. Unfortunately this is a problem with HEM (the note import is how the tool transfers the notes back into HEM). The built-in feature only inserts new notes, it does not update existing ones, whether from a previous import or you have made a note in HEM yourself.

Maybe offer this as a suggestion to the HEM developers?

The only other option would be to delete all notes in HEM, and re-import your FTP notes. However, this assumes you always have all your notes available for import in FTP, and that there are no notes in HEM that you don't want to lose that are not in your FTP notes. The doc provided does explain how to do this, but you should be aware of the risks if you forget which notes are where.

I keep thinking about writing an all-encompassing notes management tool that lets you synchronise notes between HEM and FTP, but that's quite a lot more work than this simple script. Let me know if you have other suggestions.

Do it. I'll buy it. I'd donate for your existing tool but you keep robbing me on the tables...

You should contact the HEM people. Maybe they can contract you for this job. They probably know that their notes import features suck.

I agree. That and they have an import feature for Stars but not for FTP.

This is the way it works currently, according to Roy.

It will actually either ignore or append the note. What it does is it looks to see if the imported note is already part of the current note and if so it ignore. If not it will append to the existing note.

So ,if in the DB a player has a note "he is a fish" and then you try to import a note that simply says "fish" it will ignore it since "fish" is contained within "he is a fish". If the imported note said "fishy" then his new note would be

"he is a fish
fishy"


We are working on FTP Notes import functionality and trying to fix the stars notes functionality. It was broken recently when they changed from .txt to .xml format.

Thx Fozzy. I didn't realise it parses the note (maybe this is a newer feature than when I tested it). This might be helpful in some cases, but not necessarily in others. e.g. if you shortened a note "Very aggro preflop, never bluffs" to "Very aggro preflop" after they were caught bluffing (probably better examples can be thought up!) the note would not be updated / appended.

Anyway, knowing how it works is useful.

fozzy, any updates on this end? been a few months. (i'm sure it's low priority.)

also beacoupfish, is the lastest version still the one in this thread?

Yep, very low priority. Check out NoteCaddy.

Yes, I haven't made any changes to the script.

Hi -

I downloaded the FTP Notes.zip file from your website. When I click FTP Notes.ahk, my pc asks me if I want to open the file. I then click "open" and nothing happens.

Also, if I open FTP Notes AHK Script.docx, the word doc that opens is all foreign characters ( pasted some at bottom)

Any suggestions?

See PM (should be easy to resolve, you might not have the correct software installed - AutoHotKey itself and a different version of Word).

Bump BC you are awesome

lol - did your account get hacked?!




btw, direct link to this script, if it's still of any use, is here (original link no longer works):
http://cid-b3769ad518e002e0.office.l...TP%20Notes.zip

Yeah, thanks B. Much appreciated. Don't actually need it now but there was a time when I really did. Still nice of you to share.