Evernote Rules – an update

Back at the beginning of April I released Evernote Rules, a play on Outlook Rules, where you can define actions that are carried out when a note is created or updated in an Evernote notebook. I have wanted this for almost as long as I have had Evernote and I finally got fed up of waiting for Evernote to implement it and wrote it myself.

As explained previously it works by receiving a webhook from Evernote every time that a note is created or updated and by reading the payload associated with that webhook you can see whether there … Read the rest

Decoding the Evernote Webhook

Evernote doesn’t like you using the search functionality in the API to look for changes that occur to a note. Instead you are encouraged to get notification of changes using webhooks. This works by receiving an HTTP post from Evernote every time that a note is created or updated and by reading the payload associated with that webhook you can get some basic information on it.

What does the Webhook look like?

The very first thing to know about Evernote webhooks is that in order to receive them you need to have registered for an API key and also … Read the rest

Evernote Rules

I have been an avid user of Evernote since July 2008 and have amassed over 53,000 notes. Over those 16 years, I have seen many changes to both Evernote the company and the client itself. The recent purchase by Bending Spoons had the potential to make or break the company but has, in my opinion, been overwhelmingly positive for Evernote (despite what the naysayers on Reddit say!).

Introducing Evernote Rules

One feature I have wanted Evernote to have is some form of automation that manipulates notes based on rules – very similar to the rules available in Outlook. After … Read the rest