Updated Evernote Integration

As of today, we’ve replaced our former email-based Evernote integration in favor of using the Evernote API.

We decided to move over to the API because, starting July 6th, Evernote’s email feature will become a paid feature and can only be used by free users up to five times per month. With the new API integration, Instapaper users do not have to worry about this limit when sharing content to Evernote. In order to make sure your Evernote integration continues working as expected (and so we can have a worry-free July 4th weekend), we wanted to make sure we had a solution in place before July 6th.

Updating your Evernote integration in Instapaper is a breeze. If you have linked your Evernote account in the past, please visit https://www.instapaper.com/user, scroll to “Connected Accounts,” disconnect Evernote, and re-connect Evernote. This will authenticate your Evernote account and allow Instapaper to create notes on your behalf. In upcoming iOS and Android releases, we will also adjust the Evernote authentication page to use their API rather than requesting that you enter your Evernote email address.

The good news around the new integration is that we’ll be able to offer more powerful integration options like the ability to select a default notebook and tags. However, given that we had very limited time to build the new integration, we’re only currently only offering the same functionality as the previous integration. One immediate benefit from the new API integration is that our Chinese users will now be able to connect their Yinxiang accounts to Instapaper.

We’d love to hear ideas for how we can enhance our Evernote integration in the comments below! Thanks for using Instapaper!

• Instapaper Team