FEATURE REQUEST: append to checklist

[carolinebeavon 2]

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

[jefito 5,589]

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.

[carolinebeavon 2]

Hey Jeff

Thanks for replying

IFTTT 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

[jefito 5,589]

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.

[carolinebeavon 2]

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!

[walice 0]

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.

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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.