Ideas from Mark Stout

Evernote revisited a topic recently all Evernote users should periodically review :  the  Evernote Search Syntax . If you don't know about how to search Evernote using their powerful grammar, take a few minutes to read the post and play a bit with what you have learned. It will increase the value you get from Evernote.  I'm a big advocate of  putting almost everything  in Evernote, but the value of the tool is getting back the notes you need.  The tips in their blog post will help you do that. The full search grammar for Evernote is  documented in their Developers pages . I remember how thrilled I was to discover the predecessor to that page.  I  wrote about it  starting back in 2009.

Below is a re-post of an entry from August 1, 2009.  My first ever re-post, but in my defense, still relevant. And I've updated it slightly. I am working on another project using Autoit and Evernote's Windows scripting engine, ENSCRIPT so have been looking at this script again, and fixing some broken links. So, onto the old post ... Evernote is one of those applications with a lot more power then is immediately evident. For example, Podcast #9   (June 2017 note - no longer available) debuted yesterday, and they talk about Saved Searches. As part of that, they talk about their rich search vocabulary and how they have hidden that ability in the API documentation . Another wonderful ability not obvious until you search around on their website, is Evernote's scripting capabilities. They have one for Windows they built called ENScript   ( June 2017 note: link updated)  , and another for the Macintosh   (June 2017 note: link updated) . Of course,...

My next post appearing in a couple of minutes is a programming project I first did in 2009 about using Excel to create notes in Evernote. I wrote the tool in a scripting language called AutoIt .  Autoit is not generally thought of as a tool for developing applications.  I started to explain in the post why I chose Autoit, but the explanation was getting lengthy, so I decided to have just a brief statement in that post, and then link to a longer explanation. This post is that longer explanation, and also a recommendation of Autoit for certain users and tasks. Let's take a look at what is Autoit and why I chose it. Look for a future, far more ambitious project being done in Autoit coming in several weeks (to a couple months--you know programming projects!)