I recommend to make this work with virtualenv, to avoid overwriting system files. The important part is to install in the order thrift, then evernote, then geeknote. This will make sure that path search order is correct for thrift.
# Download thrift and geeknote
git clone https://github.com/apache/thrift.git
git clone https://github.com/mwilck/geeknote.git
# create and enter a virtual environment
virtualenv /var/tmp/geeknote
. /var/tmp/geeknote/bin/activate
# Apply proxy-support patches for thrift
cd thrift
## If the patches don't apply, you may need to check out the state that I wrote the patches for:
## git checkout -b proxy e363a34e63
curl https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12801233/0001-python-THttpClient-Add-support-for-system-proxy-sett.patch | git am
curl https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12801234/0002-Python-THttpClient-Support-proxy-authorization.patch | git am
# Install thrift from the patched tree
(cd lib/py; python setup.py install)
cd ..
# Install evernote
pip install evernote
# Install geeknote
cd geeknote
python setup.py install
Now geeknote login, geeknote find, etc. should work behind a proxy if the http_proxy environment variable is correctly set. You can now generate a script to activate the virtual environment:
cat >~/bin/geeknote <<\EOF
#! /bin/bash
. /var/tmp/geeknote/bin/activate
exec geeknote "$@"
EOF
chmod a+x ~/bin/geeknote