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Automate Evernote

Evernote keeps notes, clippings and to-dos in notebooks, and things saved there are easy to forget. People automate an email when a note lands in a chosen notebook and a weekly copy of the notes they edited. Tell your AI assistant which notebook and when, check its plan, and it keeps going.

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Ideas

What you can automate in Evernote

See new notes in a notebook without opening Evernote, and keep a plain-text copy of your week's edits in your inbox. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.

Build your own

Build any Evernote automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what Evernote should do in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Every Sunday, have AI go through notes I added to Evernote this week and send me a summary with any to-dos.

Save every Gmail email I label Keep as a new Evernote note.

When I add an Evernote note tagged meeting, have AI pull out tasks, create them in Todoist and post the summary in Slack.

Setup

Connect Evernote

Evernote access depends on an API key you request from Evernote yourself. Evernote reviews each request, and a key must be activated for production before it works with your real account.

Evernote

Notes

  1. On Evernote's developer site, request an API key for your own app.
  2. Wait for Evernote to approve the key and activate it for production.
  3. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections, choose Evernote and enter your app's key and secret.

Good to know

Evernote limits that affect automations

  • Evernote's API is a legacy Thrift interface, not a modern REST API, and its authentication docs are marked deprecated.
  • API keys need manual approval and production activation from Evernote before they work on a real account.
  • There is no webhook here; new notes are found by checking the notebook on a schedule, such as every 15 minutes.
  • Notes are stored in Evernote's ENML markup, so emails contain a plain-text conversion and may drop some formatting.

FAQ

Questions about automating Evernote

Why does connecting Evernote take longer than other apps?
Evernote reviews API key requests by hand and has to activate a key for production. Until that happens, the key will not reach your real notes.
How soon will I hear about a new note?
The notebook is checked on a schedule, every 15 minutes in the example here, so expect a short delay.
Will the weekly email keep my formatting?
Not fully. Notes are converted from ENML to plain text, so tables, images and styling are left out.
Can ClickRuntime edit or delete notes?
The automations here only read notes. They list new notes and fetch note text to email you.
Do I need an AI key?
No. AI comes with every plan, including on the free plan, though these two automations do not use it.
Is this a Evernote connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with Evernote data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change Evernote while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each Evernote event.

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