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Create Instant Evernote To Do Note

Posted on 30 September 2009
In: Applications

I’m a big fan of the “new note” and “paste into Evernote” global hot keys in Evernote.

This week I added to that the global hotkey CTRL + ALT + T to create a new To Do item from any application.

The hotkey is made in AutoHotkey (widely used freeware macro utility).

The script to add is:

^!t:: send ^!n WinWait, All Notebooks - ruudhein - Evernote send ^!n Sleep, 1000 send ^+C return

Now, when you press CTRL + ALT + T, the script opens Evernote by “pressing” CTRL + SHIFT + N, puts the focus on the note by again pressing CTRL + SHIFT + N, waits one second to allow Evernote to prepare the new note, and then it inserts a checkbox. Now you can start writing your note :)

Tags: autohotkey, evernote, hotkey

6 Responses to “Create Instant Evernote To Do Note”

Tom Murphy Says:
October 4th, 2009 at 5:59 am
Hmmm, I have autohotkey running and added the script, reloaded autohotkey… and the CTRL + ALT + T seems to work.. but not the part that inserts a checkbox.

What am I doing wrong?

Tom
Ruud Says:
October 4th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Try setting the Sleep time higher. Let me know if that works for you.
Tom Murphy Says:
October 4th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Well I’m now not sure whether the problem might have been mine all along.

I tried raising the timer from 1000 to 5000 and all worked fine. Then I tried lowering it in increments of 100.. and got all the way down to 200.. and it still worked.

I have now set it at 300 as a final – and all seems good. We’ll see.

But I suspect my initial problem was either a SAVE problem.. or a RELOAD problem.. mine in any case.

Thanks for the reply.. and for the original hotkey.

Tom
Chris Says:
October 15th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Anyone have a similar solution for OS X?
Brian Says:
February 11th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Another helpful autohotkey tip. To tag the note, you have to hit f2, tab, tab. This will do that for you with ctrl+t in evernote:

#IfWinActive, All Notebooks – ruudhein – Evernote
^t::
Send {F2}{tab}{tab}
return

enjoy!
Ruud Says:
February 12th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
I had one like that, mapped to the F2 in EN actually but I needed delays. Don’t know what it is but both that function and yours works sometimes yes, sometimes no.

Thanks for adding it though!