Ideas from Mark Stout

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!)

Note:  This post was updated in June 2017.   Please go to that post and ignore this one. Evernote is one of those applications with a lot more power then is immediately evident. For example, Podcast #9 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 , and another for the Macintosh . Of course, they have their full fledged API as well, but for a hobbyist programmer like myself, the scripting was intriguing. I've been playing around with the scripting and thought I'd share an example script showing the kind of power it gives an Evernote user with just a little bit of programming ability. Before we all began using Evernote, we all had data in a variety of fi...