062 - REST-API to Evernote

AlbertR · June 28

Since EN implemented new Tasks in EN10, they did not enhance their API to support processing Tasks. Here are some ideas around that

EN uses The scalable creator and customer community platform - Invision Community as its Forum software.
- Invision Community offers a REST API to handle Forum postings (and all other stuff around managing the forums itself): REST API Documentation
- EN itself does not provide API keys to customers to access EN forum - which is OK. It's not our (user's) main task to manage discussions by an API😉
But: It's our main task to manage our note within EN - and therefore we really need a complete and reliable API interface to our accounts.
- The current API interface (see Documentation - Evernote Developers) is somewhat outdated (call it "Legacy" if you want...). There are 12 (in words: TWELVE) different documents available to describe access from "supported" operating systems and programming languages😞
My suggestion: Implement and offer a REST API to our accounts
- REST is state of the art around nearly all Software products that use any server components
- By using REST there's no need to provide different Developer APIs
- Use Invision's implementation and documentation as a well known example😉

BTW - here a very interesting discussion from Invision forum

https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/467056-hump-day-new-live-community-features/?do=findComment&comment=2892554
they talk about
- bigger invision customers (whereas EN is mentioned),
- backgound of business strategies (... it's better to focus on quality than quantity...)
- and got IV's managment to get involved (exemplary!)

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