Postach.io Panic!!

[gazumped 12,222]

To my mild surprise (the air was blue here for a while) I just found out that my 3 Postach.io websites are offline - the link between Evernote and Postach.io (says Postach) has expired.  Since I tend to regard myself as a not-stupid*,  I'm usually quite diligent in renewing links for services I use,  and I really don't remember seeing anything recently about this.

I'm totally NOT blaming Evernote at this point (and for the record Postach.io's help service makes Evernote look good...) but I would recommend that anyone with a Postach.io connection makes sure they still have a link,  and sets up a reminder / task / diary entry to NOT forget to renew it!  I plan to do that once I get my stuff back and running.

On a first quick glance it looks like I lost layouts,  backgrounds and everything but the notes in Evernote,  but that might just be the panic reaction.  I'll have to reconnect and see.

On the (vaguely) positive side I've been meaning to do something about tidying this stuff up for ages.  This is nature's way of applying a gentle kick where it was needed.  Doh!

*Heinlein reference

[gazumped 12,222]

OK - it's confirmed:  after several attempts to re-connect Postach.io with Evernote,  they no longer appear to play well together.  Reported to Support on both sides - Evernote ticket# 4045109

If anyone else has a Postach.io connection please let me know if yours works!  More (I hope) to follow...

[Cristiano478 269]

 

I’ve also got some notes published on Postach. I just checked it and got the same connection expiration warning with Evernote, like the one in the image below. I went to the Postach website, reconnected, and now everything’s back to normal for me. What’s weird is that the previous authorization was supposed to last a year, and it hadn’t expired yet.

 

[gazumped 12,222]

2 hours ago, Cristiano478 said:

and now everything’s back to normal for me

Hmmn.  Do me a favour and recheck please?  I re-authorised about 10 times and things worked for a minute or two,  then fell apart again.  Tried two separate browsers,  though they're both Chrome clones...  was beginning to think it might be a Chrome issue.  I'll check again too - maybe I was a bit click-happy earlier!

[agsteele 3,074]

My Postach.io was still functioning. Everything loaded as expected.

[tonyfitz1959 6]

I have the same problem. Connection keeps failing. 

[gazumped 12,222]

All clear I think - I checked in https://www.evernote.com/AuthorizedServices.action and 'applications' yesterday and had Postach listed 12 times.  I revoked permissions (one at a time and very s-l-o-w) and then re-connected my account.  After a restart my connection has been maintained for a few hours - so it looks like the fix is:  revoke all permissions and reconnect.  Don't know why I lost the connection in the first place though - according to the same page I originally connected my account in February this year,  and it showed as still connected.  Yet Postach was all over the place with 'reconnect your account'.

No word yet from either Support team...  

[Cristiano478 269]

6 horas atrás, gazumped disse:

All clear I think - I checked in https://www.evernote.com/AuthorizedServices.action and 'applications' yesterday and had Postach listed 12 times.  I revoked permissions (one at a time and very s-l-o-w) and then re-connected my account.  After a restart my connection has been maintained for a few hours - so it looks like the fix is:  revoke all permissions and reconnect.  Don't know why I lost the connection in the first place though - according to the same page I originally connected my account in February this year,  and it showed as still connected.  Yet Postach was all over the place with 'reconnect your account'.

No word yet from either Support team...  

 

It was pretty much the same here. The previous authorization hadn't expired yet, but the postach demanded a new one. After I made a new authorization, I accessed the page you mentioned, and there were two authorizations, the old one and the new one. I deleted the old one and kept just one. It's been working fine here since then

[QuietForge 0]

8 hours ago, gazumped said:

All clear I think - I checked in https://www.evernote.com/AuthorizedServices.action and 'applications' yesterday and had Postach listed 12 times.  I revoked permissions (one at a time and very s-l-o-w) and then re-connected my account.  After a restart my connection has been maintained for a few hours - so it looks like the fix is:  revoke all permissions and reconnect.  Don't know why I lost the connection in the first place though - according to the same page I originally connected my account in February this year,  and it showed as still connected.  Yet Postach was all over the place with 'reconnect your account'.

No word yet from either Support team...  

I’ve been facing the same issue for about a week now. Revoking permissions worked for me—thanks! Disconnecting and reconnecting Evernote notebooks within Postach also helps.

Unfortunately, as soon as I upload a new post or even make a small change to an existing one, the connection expires again. I tried moving all my posts to a different notebook and connecting a new one, but the problem persists.

Now, every time I post or update something, I have to disconnect and reconnect the notebook. Looks like this is my new normal.

[jenholl 17]

I've been having the same problem since my one-year authorization expired on November 10. Since then, I've had to reauthorize a connection dozens of times. The connection lasts between 1 minute and a few hours. I followed the suggestions of @gazumped, removing all multiple authorizations. I even selected Revoke Link and then re-established the link (hoping that a fresh start might do to the trick), but my link between Postach.io and Evernote is as precarious as it's been over the past week. I'm hoping that this will sort itself out, especially given the experience of @gazumped and @Cristiano478. If you have any other advice or gather any further intelligence from Evernote or Postach.io, I would be grateful for it. I've been using Postach.io for four years and have published daily during that entire time (which means I have more than 1,500 posts). Perhaps I've exceeded some sort of limit. It's heartening to see that others have encountered similar problems. 

[jenholl 17]

I've been having the same problem since my one-year authorization expired on November 10. Since then, I've had to reauthorize a connection dozens of times. The connection lasts between 1 minute and a few hours. I followed the suggestions of @gazumped, removing all multiple authorizations. I even selected Revoke Link and then re-established the link (hoping that a fresh start might do to the trick), but my link between Postach.io and Evernote is as precarious as it's been over the past week. I'm hoping that this will sort itself out, especially given the experience of @gazumped and @Cristiano478. If you have any other advice or gather any further intelligence from Evernote or Postach.io, I would be grateful for it. I've been using Postach.io for four years and have published daily during that entire time (which means I have more than 1,500 posts). Perhaps I've exceeded some sort of limit. It's heartening to see that others have encountered similar problems. 

UPDATE: I've been managing to limp along and achieve a connection between Evernote and Postach.io up until yesterday. No matter what I try (removing all connections then reconnecting, disconnecting then reconnecting, unpublishing pages and republishing pages, making a change to an existing published page), I have hit a wall. Nothing I do in my Evernote folder connected to Postach.io will show up in Postach.io. Would you recommend anything else @gazumped, @Cristiano478 @tonyfitz1959? I sent an email to Postach.io but I doubt that anyone is looking at that. Does Evernote care about Postach.io? Is it worth following up with them?

[jenholl 17]

24 minutes ago, jenholl said:

I've been having the same problem since my one-year authorization expired on November 10. Since then, I've had to reauthorize a connection dozens of times. The connection lasts between 1 minute and a few hours. I followed the suggestions of @gazumped, removing all multiple authorizations. I even selected Revoke Link and then re-established the link (hoping that a fresh start might do to the trick), but my link between Postach.io and Evernote is as precarious as it's been over the past week. I'm hoping that this will sort itself out, especially given the experience of @gazumped and @Cristiano478. If you have any other advice or gather any further intelligence from Evernote or Postach.io, I would be grateful for it. I've been using Postach.io for four years and have published daily during that entire time (which means I have more than 1,500 posts). Perhaps I've exceeded some sort of limit. It's heartening to see that others have encountered similar problems. 

UPDATE: I've been managing to limp along and achieve a connection between Evernote and Postach.io up until yesterday. No matter what I try (removing all connections then reconnecting, disconnecting then reconnecting, unpublishing pages and republishing pages, making a change to an existing published page), I have hit a wall. Nothing I do in my Evernote folder connected to Postach.io will show up in Postach.io. Would you recommend anything else @gazumped, @Cristiano478 @tonyfitz1959? I sent an email to Postach.io but I doubt that anyone is looking at that. Does Evernote care about Postach.io? Is it worth following up with them?

FURTHER UPDATE: Inexplicably, the post I was trying to publish to Postach.io showed up just a few minutes ago, even though I had originally posted it last night. The attached visual does not come through (it just shows a gray box where the visual should be), but at least the text of my post is there. Unfortunately, I've now lost two Pages that appeared at the top of my blog: my Calendar page and my Categories page. I've tried restoring an old version of the page and publishing that, but to no avail. I'm hope these two Pages rise like Phoenix from the ages like last night's post. This is very frustrating, to say the least. Thanks for listening! 

[tonyfitz1959 6]

1 hour ago, jenholl said:

FURTHER UPDATE: Inexplicably, the post I was trying to publish to Postach.io showed up just a few minutes ago, even though I had originally posted it last night. The attached visual does not come through (it just shows a gray box where the visual should be), but at least the text of my post is there. Unfortunately, I've now lost two Pages that appeared at the top of my blog: my Calendar page and my Categories page. I've tried restoring an old version of the page and publishing that, but to no avail. I'm hope these two Pages rise like Phoenix from the ages like last night's post. This is very frustrating, to say the least. Thanks for listening! 

I am equally frustrated. Basically from what I have seen whenever postach uses the authorisation to EN it loses its connection, and requires reauthorising. Syncing occurs but very slowly and randomly. I have reached out to postach but have not received any sort of response. My annual postach billing is due December 11th so I am watching this very closely! 

[gazumped 12,222]

Just to update - if you're having continuing issues I'd suggest finding Postachio in Authorized Services and revoking any and all instances you find,  then starting over. 

Since I told Support on my ticket# 4045109 that my pages got connected again,  they closed it,  but said that they'd be pleased to help Postach.io to check their connection to accounts if I passed on the contact details. 

I've not yet heard from Postach though - I know from past experience that they can be super-slow.  (Although with my hopeful hat on,  they may already be fixing this with Evernote and are waiting until they can confirm success...  maybe... )

Best advice - report any issues you're having to both Support teams and mention my ticket number.  I'm still shell-shocked at losing the connection even temporarily because I foolishly built several interlocking processes around having that easy web access and a lot of things fell apart very quickly and painfully without it.

I'm hoping that the new Evernote 'share' feature may replace Postachio (sorry) but again that requires me to re-engineer the connections and Evernote haven't (AFAIK) completed things yet.  Sigh.

I think I must have been cursed recently or something - this last several days have been... 'interesting'.

[Mike Stuart 5]

I'm experiencing the same issue, so I decided to create a Python-based Evernote-to-RSS solution.

It uses the Evernote API to fetch notes, converts them to HTML with embedded images, and makes them easily accessible for integration with tools like Zapier or for importing into websites.

If anyone's interested, I'll post the code on GitHub.

[gazumped 12,222]

2 hours ago, Mike Stuart said:

If anyone's interested, I'll post the code on GitHub.

I'd be interested,  definitely!

[jenholl 17]

7 hours ago, tonyfitz1959 said:

I am equally frustrated. Basically from what I have seen whenever postach uses the authorisation to EN it loses its connection, and requires reauthorising. Syncing occurs but very slowly and randomly. I have reached out to postach but have not received any sort of response. My annual postach billing is due December 11th so I am watching this very closely! 

Sorry to hear that you're experiencing the same thing, @tonyfitz1959. Let's hope we both get resolution.

[jenholl 17]

7 hours ago, gazumped said:

Just to update - if you're having continuing issues I'd suggest finding Postachio in Authorized Services and revoking any and all instances you find,  then starting over. 

Since I told Support on my ticket# 4045109 that my pages got connected again,  they closed it,  but said that they'd be pleased to help Postach.io to check their connection to accounts if I passed on the contact details. 

I've not yet heard from Postach though - I know from past experience that they can be super-slow.  (Although with my hopeful hat on,  they may already be fixing this with Evernote and are waiting until they can confirm success...  maybe... )

Best advice - report any issues you're having to both Support teams and mention my ticket number.  I'm still shell-shocked at losing the connection even temporarily because I foolishly built several interlocking processes around having that easy web access and a lot of things fell apart very quickly and painfully without it.

I'm hoping that the new Evernote 'share' feature may replace Postachio (sorry) but again that requires me to re-engineer the connections and Evernote haven't (AFAIK) completed things yet.  Sigh.

I think I must have been cursed recently or something - this last several days have been... 'interesting'.

Thank you @gazumped. I previously followed your suggestions, but just for good measure, I followed them again: removing all connections AND disconnecting then reconnecting my folder on the Postach.io page. No change yet. I've never reported any issues to Postach.io or Evernote and don't know how to do that. Can you tell me how to communicate with them? I will reference your ticket number. ~Jen

[jenholl 17]

6 hours ago, Mike Stuart said:

I'm experiencing the same issue, so I decided to create a Python-based Evernote-to-RSS solution.

It uses the Evernote API to fetch notes, converts them to HTML with embedded images, and makes them easily accessible for integration with tools like Zapier or for importing into websites.

If anyone's interested, I'll post the code on GitHub.

Thanks @Mike Stuart. My workaround has been to create a public (Web) link for a given document in Evernote and to share the link to that via social media. It's a little clunky, but it works. Working with code is beyond my capabilities, but I appreciate that others will benefit from your code. ~Jen

[gazumped 12,222]

47 minutes ago, jenholl said:

I've never reported any issues to Postach.io or Evernote and don't know how to do that. Can you tell me how to communicate with them?

Evernote is easy - see https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/29101069844371-How-to-contact-Evernote-Support.  Postach.io is a little different - when you're on the Postach.io page for your account (https://postach.io/app/sites/all),  look for the 'chat' icon at bottom right...

[jenholl 17]

2 hours ago, gazumped said:

Evernote is easy - see https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/29101069844371-How-to-contact-Evernote-Support.  Postach.io is a little different - when you're on the Postach.io page for your account (https://postach.io/app/sites/all),  look for the 'chat' icon at bottom right...

Thank you so much, @gazumpted. I really appreciate this. 

P.S. I sent a request to Evernote. I don't see the chat function in Postach.io but perhaps that's because I'm not a paid user.

Edited November 22 by jenholl
Added content.

[gazumped 12,222]

6 hours ago, jenholl said:

I'm not a paid user.

Hmmn.  Can't find the address on the website,  but I get admin emails from contact@postach.io - maybe try that?  I've got a selection of emails in Evernote - I'll see what contacts I can find...

[gazumped 12,222]

Arghhh!!  Just in the middle of doing something where I wanted to post on my little website again and -poof- 2 of my three accounts are disconnected again. 

OK - I need to find an alternative,  then I'll dig out my Postach.io old emails and see who to shout (politely) at!

It would appear that for the moment the Evernote <> Postach.io link is HIGHLY unreliable.  I do have an option in Workflowy,  which allows shared links,  so my current and future postings are going there until normal service gets resumed.  Since I also rashly paid for a year's subscription to Postach in (I think) February,  I have a 4-month refund due if they can't get this working.

I may have to change my handle to Frowny Bunny McBunface if this isn't fixed soon...  

[s2sailor 2,507]

Just curious, has anyone suggested to Evernote that this ability be added to Evernote?  I'm not one to discourage a third party plug in but this does not seem to be maintained any longer, or at least is very minimally maintained.  Having the ability to publish a notebook directly from within Evernote would be very useful.  I've avoided Postach so far because it has always seemed to be a fit finicky.

[gazumped 12,222]

8 minutes ago, s2sailor said:

has anyone suggested to Evernote that this ability be added to Evernote

I have (I think) - there are about a hundred suggestions frm me floating around somewhere.  I'm guessing that the new collaboration share features might amount to the same thing once they're fully in place,  but Evernote links are a very long character string - it would be good tactics to include a shortener so they are 'Evernote.com/share/10qx5' or some such.  There are third-party shorteners out there,  but a Bit.ly (or whomever) link can be suspicious if you don't know what it leads to.

It also depends (I think) on whether 'Spoons want to be open to plug-ins.  It allows more flexibility but it means they have more work to do to keep the API working.

Postach.  Was a good scheme for me up to a couple of days ago - I think the operation was set up with two guys and a server some years ago,  and both the original guys have other jobs now.  Support is a part-time operation.  If only there were a reliable alternative....   

[tonyfitz1959 6]

2 hours ago, gazumped said:

Postach.  Was a good scheme for me up to a couple of days ago - I think the operation was set up with two guys and a server some years ago,  and both the original guys have other jobs now.  Support is a part-time operation.  If only there were a reliable alternative....   

Yes, but .... they have (and continue) to take our money!

[jenholl 17]

12 hours ago, gazumped said:

Arghhh!!  Just in the middle of doing something where I wanted to post on my little website again and -poof- 2 of my three accounts are disconnected again. 

OK - I need to find an alternative,  then I'll dig out my Postach.io old emails and see who to shout (politely) at!

It would appear that for the moment the Evernote <> Postach.io link is HIGHLY unreliable.  I do have an option in Workflowy,  which allows shared links,  so my current and future postings are going there until normal service gets resumed.  Since I also rashly paid for a year's subscription to Postach in (I think) February,  I have a 4-month refund due if they can't get this working.

I may have to change my handle to Frowny Bunny McBunface if this isn't fixed soon...  

I'm sorry to hear this, @gazumped. Your experience reflects mine. Up until two days ago, I was limping along with the unreliable Postach.io service. But now, nothing is happening on the Postach.io side except dropped connections whenever I do anything in my Evernote Postach.io folder. Today, I purchased a one-month subscription to Postach.io, thinking that my problems might be caused by the fact that I was using the service for free and perhaps had reached some sort of size limit. But nothing changed after I purchased the upgrade. I have submitted requests to both Evernote and Postach.io. No response from Postach.io. In the case of Evernote, an AI Bot responded with a wholly unhelpful reply. I was invited to reply if the response didn't fit the bill, which I did. Waiting for response, which could take a few days.

[Grant837 154]

I checked mine, and to add insult to injury, the 'billing' information fo rmy account says I have a free account, even though I forked out $50 in October for a full year.  I was publishing an extensive trip log for my family to enjoy...

I will be very curious if anyone ever hears from Postach. For the last half-year, after trying every email, LinkedIn, chat, and more, I have never gotten any human reaction about any issue or question I had.

Maybe it's time to admit that using a dead company's services is not such a good idea. Here's hoping Evernote can fill that gap.

[tonyfitz1959 6]

I reached out to Gavin Vickery one of the founders of Postach. He and his partner sold out several years ago, but he offered to try and contact the current owners to alert them of the situation. I sent him a link to this forum post. 

[gazumped 12,222]

I've been in contact with him and Shawn Adrian on LinkedIn over the past couple of days - as and when I get any replies I'll post again here...

[jenholl 17]

3 hours ago, gazumped said:

I've been in contact with him and Shawn Adrian on LinkedIn over the past couple of days - as and when I get any replies I'll post again here...

Thanks for your work on this @gazumped. Much appreciated.

[Grant837 154]

UPDATE: I signed up for a year ($50) in October. Now I get an error saying my credit card data needs updating - which does not help (it still shows I paid for a year, and the money was taken from my card).  I can not access any functionality of the postach.io site now - I always get redirected to my billing page. 

@jenholl I tried the same 1 month subscription sometime before signing up for a year.  The 1 month process never worked,  but worse yet it also locked me out of my account with the same credit card information error.  At least in this case, they never took my money. 

[jenholl 17]

6 hours ago, Grant837 said:

UPDATE: I signed up for a year ($50) in October. Now I get an error saying my credit card data needs updating - which does not help (it still shows I paid for a year, and the money was taken from my card).  I can not access any functionality of the postach.io site now - I always get redirected to my billing page. 

@jenholl I tried the same 1 month subscription sometime before signing up for a year.  The 1 month process never worked,  but worse yet it also locked me out of my account with the same credit card information error.  At least in this case, they never took my money. 

Sorry to hear this @Grant837. It baffles me that an organization can accept payment, have their service go down, and not communicate to users to indicate that they're working on the problem. I hope we all get resolution soon and a reliable service.

[gazumped 12,222]

1 hour ago, jenholl said:

I hope we all get resolution soon and a reliable service.

From what @tonyfitz1959 said,  the guys I thought were in charge have sold out to someone else - I was fairly relaxed about the apparent lack of support,  because I thought that we still had two individuals that were busy with other projects,  but would step back in if something critical happened. 

As that doesn't seem to be the case any more,  I'm getting less and less happy.  I'm going to start a dispute via my debit card company - which is how I paid for the annual subscription last February.  I'd recommend anyone else who paid checks to see whether your payment method can help you claim a refund.  I'm also interested to find out who is actually running this service now,  if it's not the original principals.

In the short term I'm switching over to Workflowy to share information.  This forinstance is currently my item on Postach.io in a draft database that I hope to go live with next year...  https://workflowy.com/s/postachio/9AKec1PLUMb90EWg

Ideally,  if Evernote get their sharing act together, it will be with them.

[jenholl 17]

7 hours ago, gazumped said:

From what @tonyfitz1959 said,  the guys I thought were in charge have sold out to someone else - I was fairly relaxed about the apparent lack of support,  because I thought that we still had two individuals that were busy with other projects,  but would step back in if something critical happened. 

As that doesn't seem to be the case any more,  I'm getting less and less happy.  I'm going to start a dispute via my debit card company - which is how I paid for the annual subscription last February.  I'd recommend anyone else who paid checks to see whether your payment method can help you claim a refund.  I'm also interested to find out who is actually running this service now,  if it's not the original principals.

In the short term I'm switching over to Workflowy to share information.  This forinstance is currently my item on Postach.io in a draft database that I hope to go live with next year...  https://workflowy.com/s/postachio/9AKec1PLUMb90EWg

Ideally,  if Evernote get their sharing act together, it will be with them.

Thanks for this update, @gazumped. Very informative. I wonder whether Evernote feels any obligation to help out clients who have been using Postach.io. Perhaps not, but a girl can dream. 

[PinkElephant 9,010]

Postach is an independent service. We have seen services around EN come and go - somehow they seem to fail after a while, probably when they have burned through their seed money. The last example was Filterize. EN holds no obligation to keep users covered who decide to subscribe to one of these additional, independent services.

[Grant837 154]

22 hours ago, gazumped said:

As that doesn't seem to be the case any more,  I'm getting less and less happy.  I'm going to start a dispute via my debit card company - which is how I paid for the annual subscription last February.  I'd recommend anyone else who paid checks to see whether your payment method can help you claim a refund.  I'm also interested to find out who is actually running this service now,  if it's not the original principals.

In the short term I'm switching over to Workflowy to share information.  This forinstance is currently my item on Postach.io in a draft database that I hope to go live with next year...  https://workflowy.com/s/postachio/9AKec1PLUMb90EWg

Ideally,  if Evernote get their sharing act together, it will be with them.

Thanks @gazumped.  I was also contemplating a claim with my credit card... I will now start looking into that too.   

Workflowy sounds promising, and I will give it a look.   I also think it would be wonderful if Evernote could support web publishing - and certainly as part of the personal subscription, not just teams, etc.   

[Gavin Vickery 9]

Hey everyone, original creator of Postach.io here 👋

It's really exciting to see so many people still using and passionate about it! Evernote has a great community.

For those unaware; I had sold and moved on from Postach.io quite a few years ago now, but recently had a few members reach out to me asking for help. While I don't have any direct access to code or servers any more, I've reached out to who I assume is the current owner (it may have changed hands again for all I know). If I hear anything back, I'll let you know here first. Hopefully this can be resolved soon. It's a bummer to see it falling to the wayside like this 😞

Cheers

Gavin

[Gavin Vickery 9]

Quick update. Original buyer (from us) sold to another vendor a couple years ago. They're reaching out to them to see if we can get a contact. 

[quentinleo 4]

Looks like it's finally time to move on from Postach. Too bad. 

Postach wasn't great, but I wasn't looking for great when I first signed up years ago. All I needed was a way to publish my blogs for my small (100s) audiences. 

If Postach has finally folded, RIP. 

But, I think Evernote should Sherlock it...

[gazumped 12,222]

51 minutes ago, quentinleo said:

But, I think Evernote should Sherlock it...

Don't think Evernote can do much for a third party connection,  but they are aware of this thread and how many active Postach.io users there were.  They're very willing to help out if necessary - or I'd hope they recognise an opportunity to add a useful feature to the main app....

I'd recommend Workflowy if you need to get back online quickly - see comments above.  But don't give up - the new new owners will presumably recognise that they're in danger of losing an income stream and gaining a number of refund requests unless they join the discussion soon...

[mackid1993 1,478]

Not one to plug another service, but Obsidian has something called Obsidian Publish that does something similar. For just a no code blog that may be a good solution since you'd just write the whole thing in Markdown. Just a thought if there isn't a good way to do this with Evernote anymore. Once could use Yarle to convert an enex file to Markdown and then use Obsidian to publish the blog.

[QFieldBoden 51]

Hi, just tried mine, not working. Think I'll just ditch it as increasingly I just can't be bothered with constantly having to fiddle with things to keep them working. My 90 year old typewriter is far less trouble and just keeps on working 😀Even iof I mess about and get it to work it will only be a matter of time before the next update/fix/restart or whatever before it falls over again.

Ok, that's me done woith Postachio, notebook disconnected and site deleted.  I had no idea it had been sold, resold and essentially now fallen off the cliff. Suppose I'd better start looking for an alternative way to produce the odd post for publication.

I'll probobly continue to generate any text in Evernote just so that I find it again if something similar happens with another service. Could just cut and paste the text into another platform I guess, just to keep it simple, best suggestion anyone?

[gazumped 12,222]

15 minutes ago, QFieldBoden said:

best suggestion anyone?

 

On 11/24/2024 at 5:27 PM, gazumped said:

In the short term I'm switching over to Workflowy to share information.  This forinstance is currently my item on Postach.io in a draft database that I hope to go live with next year...  https://workflowy.com/s/postachio/9AKec1PLUMb90EWg

 

[QFieldBoden 51]

55 minutes ago, gazumped said:

 

 

Hi, well I followed the link and this is what I saw? 

[gazumped 12,222]

Yup.  That's what I wrote in a Workflowy node,  and shared to the world with a rather long URL,  which make sit available to all.  The options are (as you'd expect) View Only,  or Edit & View.  Anyone with the URL can see the page.  (Two of Postach's subscriber perks were:  custom domains & password protected posts).

The content I chose because of laziness and irony.  It was just to prove that publishing to the web is pretty easy,  though there are bells and whistles that may be worth a subscription.

[Gavin Vickery 9]

Is there any interest in a Postach.io alternative? What are your "must haves" of the service? Biggest annoyances? What don't you need? 

[Jon/t 1,745]

I've not used Postach.io myself but I always thought some sort of integration with existing CMS systems would work well compared to a hosted solution.

EG. A WordPress/Craft plugin/extension that would connect Evernote to the CMS.

[gazumped 12,222]

23 minutes ago, Gavin Vickery said:

Is there any interest in a Postach.io alternative? What are your "must haves" of the service? Biggest annoyances? What don't you need? 

Hey Gavin - thanks for taking an initiative.  I'm sure you'll get a lot of interest - check Reddit and have a general web search for Postach.io;  there are a lot of interested bodies out there.  Don't know if you have any current contacts with Evernote,  but there have been a lot of server changes that might impact operations,  and future plans might tweak things more.  Federico Simionato is the head of product and would be well worth a discussion if you are thinking of something based on Evernote.

Whether based here,  or some kind of standalone app though,  I'll list out some options though it might take a day or two...

[agsteele 3,074]

34 minutes ago, Gavin Vickery said:

Is there any interest in a Postach.io alternative? What are your "must haves" of the service? Biggest annoyances? What don't you need? 

Yes, although it may not be sufficient to cover the costs

For me, I only need a simple way to post entries into a blog style website from Evernote - just as a basic Postach.io account allowed. The ability to link it to my personal domain would be great but not essential.  Some limited design/layout options would be very useful.

[PinkElephant 9,010]

Sort of this was available by publishing notebooks - back then.

Something similar, with a lean UI would suffice.

[gazumped 12,222]

1 minute ago, PinkElephant said:

Sort of this was available by publishing notebooks - back then.

Something similar, with a lean UI would suffice.

I agree - I came up with this short list,  some of which is very negotiable...

1. convert Evernote notes (or similar) into published web pages with human-friendly URLs (i.e. words, not numbers)
2. allow reasonable styling - Evernote,  MD or basic WP level, including headings and images alongside text.
3. provide optional password protection for site or pages
4. include an 'index/ home' page leading to other notes
5. allow linking to and between notes and back to the 'index' page
6. link to own domain
7. refresh frequently in case of changes
8. include some statistics - how many visits to each page
9. include a 'comments' option either per site or per page
10. have notifications back to the owner when comments are left.

[Great Guy 0]

My Postachio.io site has had the same issues but as of right now, after deleting access from the postach.io end and then connecting to a notebook, all seems to be working again as it should. New posts come through now as well.

[jenholl 17]

Postach.io is back—at least for me. Every page. Every post. I did have to unpublish any posts that I had published during the dark period and then republish them, but everything has been restored. Here is a link to my blog: https://jenesis.postach.io/. You can see that it includes tonight's post and all the posts that I published over the last week. This is the most promising sign I've seen in a week. 

[Great Guy 0]

And…. It’s back to not working

[QFieldBoden 51]

7 minutes ago, Great Guy said:

And…. It’s back to not working

I'm just glad I deleted the whole thing, when things are this unreliable you spend so much time messing about with them that they are just not worth the effort, IMO.

[Great Guy 0]

18 hours ago, Gavin Vickery said:

Is there any interest in a Postach.io alternative? What are your "must haves" of the service? Biggest annoyances? What don't you need? 

Definitely an interest from me. My blind brother in law can email into my Evernote and in turn publishes to his blog, I just can’t see any other simple options out there for him to use.

[gazumped 12,222]

24 minutes ago, QFieldBoden said:

I'm just glad I deleted the whole thing, when things are this unreliable you spend so much time messing about with them that they are just not worth the effort, IMO.

If at first you don't succeed - give up?  Mine ran quietly for a few years straight.

[gazumped 12,222]

... see also:  (h/t @jenholl)

 

[QFieldBoden 51]

29 minutes ago, Great Guy said:

Definitely an interest from me. My blind brother in law can email into my Evernote and in turn publishes to his blog, I just can’t see any other simple options out there for him to use.

Might be of interest if it was convenient, above all reliable, and on a platform that isn't "going away".

[QFieldBoden 51]

30 minutes ago, gazumped said:

If at first you don't succeed - give up?  Mine ran quietly for a few years straight.

Not quite, but give up when something keeps disconnecting and particularly when the ownership status and general future of the service seems to be in doubt. Different of course if the output is mission critical which mine certainly isn't but if it were I'd not be using something which seems to be crumbling in terms of ownership, support etc.

[jenholl 17]

On 11/26/2024 at 1:58 PM, Gavin Vickery said:

Quick update. Original buyer (from us) sold to another vendor a couple years ago. They're reaching out to them to see if we can get a contact. 

Thanks for the update @Gavin Vickery. If you get contact information from the new owners that you're comfortable sharing, I'd love to have it for future reference.

[jenholl 17]

I thought I had posted in this thread last night, but I can't find my reply. Just wanted to share in this conversation that Postach.io started working again for me last night and continues to operate without issue. I was able to publish the daily posts that I had written during the blackout period. I simply unpublished them then republished them, and they showed up on the blog. For reference, this is a link to my blog: https://jenesis.postach.io/.

[Dale Fleury 0]

On 11/18/2024 at 8:50 AM, gazumped said:

To my mild surprise (the air was blue here for a while) I just found out that my 3 Postach.io websites are offline - the link between Evernote and Postach.io (says Postach) has expired.  Since I tend to regard myself as a not-stupid*,  I'm usually quite diligent in renewing links for services I use,  and I really don't remember seeing anything recently about this.

I'm totally NOT blaming Evernote at this point (and for the record Postach.io's help service makes Evernote look good...) but I would recommend that anyone with a Postach.io connection makes sure they still have a link,  and sets up a reminder / task / diary entry to NOT forget to renew it!  I plan to do that once I get my stuff back and running.

On a first quick glance it looks like I lost layouts,  backgrounds and everything but the notes in Evernote,  but that might just be the panic reaction.  I'll have to reconnect and see.

On the (vaguely) positive side I've been meaning to do something about tidying this stuff up for ages.  This is nature's way of applying a gentle kick where it was needed.  Doh!

*Heinlein reference

I have 12 web pages built in Evernote and authorized by Postachio. They are all working.

I just tried to build a NEW web page, all the same way I built the previous ones. I have tried several times to view my new web page.

https://easterneurope.postach.io/

Inevideably it will revoke my authorization. I reauthorize it but nothing appears ('published' notes don't show up).  I am able to change the title and cover photo with Postachio, but am unable to add anything else to the URL.

It looks to me like they are not "talking to each other"

 

 

[gazumped 12,222]

47 minutes ago, Dale Fleury said:

It looks to me like they are not "talking to each other"

I have three sites - confusingly one,  the least significant or useful one (wouldn't you know),  has remained connected after I reconnected it several days ago.  The other two remain connected for an hour or two,  but then fall over again. 

I dropped a heavy hint with Evernote that if they took over this function I'd be very happy - and a nice person in Support (who can see this thread) has kicked that suggestion up the chain.  I guess we'll have to wait for further developments.

Meantime - keep on reconnecting your accounts.,  otherwise you'll never know if the service starts working again!

[jenholl 17]

2 hours ago, gazumped said:

I have three sites - confusingly one,  the least significant or useful one (wouldn't you know),  has remained connected after I reconnected it several days ago.  The other two remain connected for an hour or two,  but then fall over again. 

I dropped a heavy hint with Evernote that if they took over this function I'd be very happy - and a nice person in Support (who can see this thread) has kicked that suggestion up the chain.  I guess we'll have to wait for further developments.

Meantime - keep on reconnecting your accounts.,  otherwise you'll never know if the service starts working again!

Much to my chagrin, Postach.io is back to its unreliable self. While it was working fine over the past 24 hours and I was able to update my blog to include everything up to yesterday's post, tonight's post would not go live. I have learned over the past week that if I create a new note in my Postach.io folder or change an existing file, this causes the Postach.io-Evernote link to fail. So I avoid working in the file and then move the new note (usually a blog post) into the folder and Publish it. I then reauthorize the link between the two products in my Postach.io account. I've had issues with Postach.io in the past where it takes a day for a post to show up, but nothing as bad as the last week. 

Thanks @gazumped for suggesting to Evernote that it move forward (quickly) with replacing the functionality we currently get from Postach.io. I would happily dump Postach.io if Evernote could approximate its service. 

[gazumped 12,222]

11 hours ago, jenholl said:

I would happily dump Postach.io if Evernote could approximate its service. 

Well,  since you mention it - take a look at this... an Evernote work-around?  It wouldn't replace your content,  but maybe with a little tweaking...  

[Jon/t 1,745]

8 minutes ago, gazumped said:

Well,  since you mention it - take a look at this... an Evernote work-around?  It wouldn't replace your content,  but maybe with a little tweaking...  

That's a cool idea. I hadn't thought of using share links inside shared notes.

[gazumped 12,222]

9 minutes ago, Jon/t said:

That's a cool idea. I hadn't thought of using share links inside shared notes.

Kind've like a shared notebook with the ToC page as the 'home'.  You could use a hierarchy of ToC pages to build up quite a complicated site - but I wouldn't want to get too ambitious:  it would be a headache to keep track of all the page links. 

Hmmn.  But then: you could actually paste the link onto the page it references...  Just tried it:  you need to use a code block to get the actual URL,  but that might work as a footer....

[Jon/t 1,745]

14 minutes ago, gazumped said:

Kind've like a shared notebook

I really hope they bring back shared notebooks!

[jenholl 17]

10 hours ago, gazumped said:

Well,  since you mention it - take a look at this... an Evernote work-around?  It wouldn't replace your content,  but maybe with a little tweaking...  

Thanks @gazumped. I actually mocked up an Evernote page to approximate my blog on Postach.io. But I paused work on this once Postach.io came back, albeit temporarily. It would not take me long to populate this Evernote page and then to share it via social media. I could use a URL shortener to create a more memorable name for the page (https://tinyurl.com/jenhollington) and drive readers to this common page and let them find the post they were searching for. Old posts would link to my blog in Postach.io. New posts would link to an Evernote note that I've shared publicly. I think that would work.

[Cristiano478 269]

 @jenholl  By the way, great job on your blog. It can’t be easy writing about something like cancer.

[gazumped 12,222]

17 hours ago, jenholl said:

I actually mocked up an Evernote page to approximate my blog on Postach.io.

That translates very well - thanks for the inspiration!  I investigated one of your pages with the 'open in Evernote' option and noticed that although I can see the page in Evernote Web there's no apparent copy in my own account.  I can 'see' this page,  but it isn't copied into the account unless I specifically use the Copy To command...  and even then I just tried that a minute or two ago and that still hasn't shown up on my other devices.  "Sharing" seems to be the same as 'showing'...

I'm sure if,  I wanted to,  there's ways to get the content into my account - screenshots and/ or copy~paste come to mind - but if you ever offer something that others might want their own copy of,  it's a limitation to bear in mind.  @Evernote, @Gavin Vickery - please note!

Correction  - Curiouserer and couriouserer...  The web share does show up in my account.  I was expecting it to be in recent notes,  but because I chose one that was a day old,  and I use 'created date' as my standard sort order,  it shows up with yesterday's notes,  and that's a ways down the list.  The shared note shows up without any notebook in the location column,  and there's no 'delete' option,  just 'leave shared note'.

If I then try to copy the note using 'Copy To',  I do get another copy - also without a notebook - though creating a new note and copy~pasting the content does work and place the new note in my default notebook.  I'll flag this post up to Support too,  because we've had occasional reports about notes with no notebooks,  and 'missing' clips which might be related to all of the above.

 

[jenholl 17]

3 hours ago, Cristiano478 said:

 @jenholl  By the way, great job on your blog. It can’t be easy writing about something like cancer.

Thanks @Cristiano478. The interesting (and good thing) about sharing my cancer story is that on many days I have nothing to report on that front, which leaves me the freedom to right about many other things. Really, I'm just sharing life and observations, sometimes related to cancer but often not. 😊

[jenholl 17]

1 hour ago, gazumped said:

That translates very well - thanks for the inspiration!  I investigated one of your pages with the 'open in Evernote' option and noticed that although I can see the page in Evernote Web there's no apparent copy in my own account.  I can 'see' this page,  but it isn't copied into the account unless I specifically use the Copy To command...  and even then I just tried that a minute or two ago and that still hasn't shown up on my other devices.  "Sharing" seems to be the same as 'showing'...

I'm sure if,  I wanted to,  there's ways to get the content into my account - screenshots and/ or copy~paste come to mind - but if you ever offer something that others might want their own copy of,  it's a limitation to bear in mind.  @Evernote, @Gavin Vickery - please note!

Correction  - Curiouserer and couriouserer...  The web share does show up in my account.  I was expecting it to be in recent notes,  but because I chose one that was a day old,  and I use 'created date' as my standard sort order,  it shows up with yesterday's notes,  and that's a ways down the list.  The shared note shows up without any notebook in the location column,  and there's no 'delete' option,  just 'leave shared note'.

If I then try to copy the note using 'Copy To',  I do get another copy - also without a notebook - though creating a new note and copy~pasting the content does work and place the new note in my default notebook.  I'll flag this post up to Support too,  because we've had occasional reports about notes with no notebooks,  and 'missing' clips which might be related to all of the above.

 

Thanks @gazumped. What I've tried to do with any share of Evernote content is to make sure it's visible to users who don't have (nor want) an Evernote account. As long as the web version opens for them, I'm good. I love all the analysis and testing you're doing and your willingness to share it here. It's been very helpful to me, even if some of it is over my head. 😊

[jenholl 17]

Tonight, I launched a new Evernote-based homepage for my blog (tinyurl.com/jenhollington https://lite.evernote.com/note/20249132-2ade-077d-0e24-55eb65ac32b3). My post on the subject is here: https://share.evernote.com/note/2202169e-27e9-a6cc-efed-9cb3bcf0f99e.

Aside from the two buttons at the top of the page suggesting that users "Download app" or "Open in Evernote" the site doesn't look that different from my existing Postach.io-based homepage (https://jenesis.postach.io/). It took some time to cut and paste to the new homepage the links and a summary to each of my 1575+ posts, but at least that's done and my new homepage provides readers with access to all my posts. The new homepage is simply a note in Evernote that I've made visible in a read-only format. 

I have learned that as long as I don't make any changes in my Postach.io folder, such as adding a note or changing an existing note, my Postachio-based website remains live. That's good, because the vast majority of the links in my new page point to a Postach.io-based post. 

Thanks for the information and ideas shared in this forum. As I said in my post, I briefly contemplated starting over with a new blogging platform but that was a bridge too far. I'm familiar with Evernote, and this workaround suffices. My blog is not monetized in any way, so I'm not relying on it for income. The people who wish to follow my story can continue to do so.

I've communicated several times to the Postach.io email address but have yet to receive a response. I'll watch this page to see whether anyone else hears from the company and, of course, to see whether the platform ever starts working again.

Jen