The Death of Scripting in Windows for Evernote

With Evernote 10, scripting is no longer available for Evernote, at least in Windows.  The application ENScript is no longer available.  

I never used it much, but I enjoyed dinking around with in.  I had a little AutoIt script that could create individual notes for each line of a spreadsheet.  I wrote about it a couple of times, the most recently here.

Evernote has been purchased by a new company. Their intent for future Evernote development is unclear. I don't know if scripting will be a part of it.

I was reviewing the post mentioned above, and realized the ability to create notes from a spreadsheet could almost be done as well using Visual Basic for Applications in Excel.  A simple VBA app could generate a a text file and save it to your Evernote Upload directory.



What wouldn't show up is a title and tags.  

Instead of creating an entire script processing utility Evernote could allow simple markup to happen in the note.

Something like <title>My Title goes here</title> and <tags> a,list,of,comma delimited, tags</tags>

Maybe even get fancy and support notebooks and tasks.

File this under day dreaming and nice to have,.  I'd still prefer a full scripting interpreter though.

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