Postach.io Tips & Tricks

This is a dynamic post where I'm keeping notes I might find useful in the future.

Embedding Gists - Great way to include code snippets in a Postach.io post. The short answer is to create a public gist and then link to it from within Evernote via a Postach.io embed that looks like this, but with your own gist URL:


Update (January, 2019): Now that postach.io properly supports the "code block" format that's native to Evernote, this should be less of an issue.

Creating Markdown Posts in Evernote - Another easy way to include code snippets in a Postach.io post. Just add the "markdown" tag to your post in Evernote, and use the three-back-ticks markup to indicate a code block. The code snippet will end up looking something like this in Evernote:


Embedding Tweets - Inside square brackets, write "twitter url="", and get something like this:


Embedding New York Times articles - Inside square brackets, use nytimes embed like this:


Gives you embedded content like this:

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