carolinebeavon 2 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I wonder what the possibility would be of adding a new feature to checkbox lists - namely, automatically adding a checkbox to items appended to a note via IFTTT. I currently use IFTTT to append email subject-lines to a to-do list note, if they are given a particular Gmail tag. I then access my todo list note via Egretlist and to have my email headers added automatically to a todo list would be great. Sorry - hope I haven't confused ,,.Thanks Caroline Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,586 Posted October 26, 2012 Level 5* Share Posted October 26, 2012 In general, there are no automatic ways to add to a previously created note that I know of, particularly using IFTTT. You might try directing your IFTTT notes to a particular notebook (so that they're easily isolated), and then using the Merge Notes feature to combine them. It's about the best that I can think of right now.More to your request, Evernote staff will read this; hard to say whether it will be implemented or how hard it would be to do so, and they typically do not comment that much on future feature intentions. Link to comment
carolinebeavon 2 Posted October 27, 2012 Author Share Posted October 27, 2012 Hey JeffThanks for replyingIFTTT does actually let you append to a current Evernote note now, which is brilliant for keeping logs of things, creating automatic lists etc. I guess I was wondering if the formatting of the current note (ie bullets, checkboxes) could be continued in this new appended text.Just an idea ... Thanks, Caroline Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,586 Posted October 27, 2012 Level 5* Share Posted October 27, 2012 Hey, you're right, Caroline. I hadn't checked into IFTTT for some time, and that capability is new. That's a great find. So it looks like what they're doing is to identify a note by Notebook and title, which is interesting, wonder how they disambiguate if more than one note with the same title exists. Anyways, I didn't see any way to instruct them to continue the prior formatting; they'd need to dig into the existing note's HTML to figure it out. I'll try to experiment, though. APpending to notes has been asked for before, and I didn't think that there was any way. Now there it. Thanks. Link to comment
carolinebeavon 2 Posted October 27, 2012 Author Share Posted October 27, 2012 It's definitely a useful feature ... and thank you for your reply. it would be great to see where it leads with this new Evernote-IFTTT mashup! Link to comment
walice 0 Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Hey, you're right, Caroline. I hadn't checked into IFTTT for some time, and that capability is new. That's a great find. So it looks like what they're doing is to identify a note by Notebook and title, which is interesting, wonder how they disambiguate if more than one note with the same title exists. Anyways, I didn't see any way to instruct them to continue the prior formatting; they'd need to dig into the existing note's HTML to figure it out. I'll try to experiment, though. APpending to notes has been asked for before, and I didn't think that there was any way. Now there it. Thanks.Hello - copying my reply to a similar thread on this (http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/38854-how-do-i-add-a-todo-from-ifttt/)Not sure it's the done thing etiquette-wise, but I thought I would share my solution.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is what I did. I inspected element on a browser with a note which had existing checkboxes and got the address of the .gif they use for checkboxes. My IFTTT recipe looks like this:<img src="/images/rte_todo_unchecked.gif">{{Title}}<br>{{Url}}<br><br> When I tried it with <input type="checkbox"> it didn't work so I resorted to inserting the .gif instead. It works fine and it's even clickable! The only annoying thing is that Evernote somehow inserts a <br> between the checkbox and the {{Title}}, despite not including it in the IFTTT recipe. If you have any ideas on how to get rid of that - I'm all ears! Cheers. Link to comment
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