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  1. I didn't say I agreed with the business decision, just that they made one. I have an app in the app center, so I'm not complaining (except that I can't update my entry with my new logo and features). As for the developer center, It will be entirely redone. They've decided (to date) to leave it untouched instead of incrementally updating things (like the code structure for checklists). It was built for the standard of its day and I think they will rebuild for the standards of the day they release it. While I don't agree with all their decisions, I actually admired their willingness to focus on fixing the hardest issues and ignoring everything else (and I mean everything) for a time. I don't keep track as much as I used to, but they seem to have that same kind of focus now. The thing I still never understand is how they think Evernote will ever sell to Enterprise at any scale. It's a great product for the market that loves it, but the real recurring revenue money is not in that market. Trying to chase it almost always leads to suboptimal decisions. Turning Evernote into a knowledgebase for Enterprise seems like a stretch too far. I hope we're not headed down that road again.
  2. When Evernote built its current API, it was actually quite unique. It was a Thrift API (not REST). It was the methods they were usually internally to the company and not some subset created for developers to access (see list). That was 10 years ago and it is now part of the mountain of technical debt that Evernote is trying to clear. Along with the front end stuff people love/hate, there is a backend mountain to climb. Ian talked about part of it during one of the Behind the Scenes talks. I don't expect APIs to be released until they reach relative feature stability. They somehow manage to keep the existing API functioning when I know the database structure behind the new Evernote must look much different which is why the new stuff isn't supported. Releasing a new API once a new database structure is landed, probably is relatively trivial. Transitioning the billions of requests on the existing one to the new one without pain for hundreds of companies and millions of users, that's a different story entirely.
  3. Trust me. They are well aware of this and the developer pages as well. When Evernote was going through their rough patch not that long ago, they chose to leave all this dead content out there. I love Evernote. It was a business decision. The app center is not active as far as I can tell and nothing has been added or removed in many years. Same is basically true for the developer portal that supported developers as the docs there are not a true representation of the backend today. Good news is, they're working on it and they do know it. I don't think there are inaccuracies as much as omissions. Evernote is on the mend, but this has not and will not be a quick process.
  4. I'm certainly not suggesting having more than one location for tasks. In fact, the opposite. Let's take your example. You share a link from Evernote to Things with the note title as a task. First, how are you "Sharing"? Is that copy & paste or are you using an intermediary? Second, does the note title describe all the things you want to track progress of (e.g. One item), because you would have only one Things task. If so, the solution you indicated would work fine. What is more typical is the note is at the level of a project with many tasks and context within the project. You either write those individual tasks within Evernote and have them sent over to Things as individual tasks, or you go through the process of typing those individual tasks into things so you can manage them as discrete tasks instead of an entire project. What TaskClone does is save you from writing the individual tasks twice. It copies them from Evernote to Things. It is not a place to manage tasks, just a conduit between two services. It can serve as that conduit at the note level, so you can get the note title into Things as a task or as a conduit to get individual tasks into Things. Either way, it's saving retyping or copy/pasting. Only you can decide if that helps your productivity.
  5. Dr. Davis, TaskClone can take the whole note or individual task items. It works with either one or the other. I'm the developer behind it and I can assure you it will send individual items as email to anywhere, including Zapier's Email Parser. I suspect the Zapier only solution was not successful because the underlying HTML in Evernote notes is not consistent as related to checkboxes so a common filter would not work reliably. If you interested, sign up for a TaskClone account and the support team can walk you through any difficulties.
  6. They've got lots on their plate, but without being able to give a direct quote, I'm pretty sure they're thinking about it. Not sure how high to the top of the list it is at this point given Evernote is one of the most integrated apps with others out there. The existing API definitely has issues, but it's more robust than most also.
  7. At this writing, June 2019, this is possible with TaskClone and Zapier together. Soon, you'll be able to do this with TaskClone alone. Today, TaskClone converts your Evernote todos into email. Zapier can parse incoming email and create tasks in 000s of apps including Todo. TaskClone will be adding an API connection to all Microsoft apps (Todo, Planner, Outlook) in the near future.
  8. This is unfortunately far more difficult than it should be, but is possible. You can use TaskClone to sift your notes for checkboxes and turn those into emails. Unfortunately, those emails can't go directly to Smartsheet because they haven't implemented that feature (even though their community has asked at least since 2015). However, there are many services, including Zapier that can parse that incoming email and create a task in Smartsheet. https://zapier.com/apps/email/integrations/smartsheet
  9. Explain more your goals. Evernote can't do what you are asking at the moment. IFTTT does have an "add checkbox" applet, but not sure it would accomplish what you seek.
  10. As you can see from the responses, there are as many preferred workflows as there are people. If you want to use Things with Evernote, TaskClone can help - https://www.taskclone.com/evernote-to-things-integration. I'm the developer behind TaskClone and after 7 years, I can assure you, almost nothing is perfect. There are many solutions to similar problems and you just pick one and iterate. Best of luck.
  11. Evernote premium now allows annotation directly within Evernote - http://evernote.com/contact/support/kb/#!/article/28944986
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