Markdown to Evernote, second round warmup
My little Markdown to Evernote service has been getting a bit long in the tooth. It never was very robust to start with, occasionally going “boom” when encountering metadata not palatable to Evernote, but the last years have not been kind to it: for instance, sandboxing broke it unless Evernote was already running. The last straw has been OS X Mavericks and its laudable shift to a system Ruby version 2, which broke the service for good.
Now this might have been a quick fix, but I decided to do what you never, ever should do: a complete rewrite, from the ground up. Not unexpectedly, this took me far longer than it should have, what with me barely having shed the total coding oik status for that of lowly Ruby grunt, but it is nearing the end now, or so I hope. The new version offers both an Automator action and a service application, the last one able to process not just text input, but also Markdown files directly. It adds metadata validation and sanitization. It is able to set most useful Evernote metadata directly from your Markdown file metadata – not just the title, tags and notebook. There’s more stuff I can’t wait to tell you about. But.
Right now, I need your help. I have done a few rounds of betas, but I have far too few beta testers to collect useful results; basically, the main tester is still just me. I’ve come far enough to tentatively put up a release candidate, but it needs to be tested in the wild. So, if you have been using my old service, or would like to explore the new one, head over to GitHub, grab the RC, and go crazy. Break it if you can.
And then, please, report back.
There is an addendum to the above post here.
