Now you can send your tweets directly into Evernote. Why is this cool? Because Twitter is chock-full of great stuff. Your ideas, thoughts, and experiences mixed together with all of the content from the people you follow: journalism, storytelling, commentary, activism, even comedy –to quote Rob Corddry, “It’s the perfect joke-writing medium. If you need more than 140 characters then it’s not worth it.”
Thanks to the Evernote-Twitter integration, you can easily capture the tweets you like: your own or those showing up in your stream. Plus, as an added bonus, you can now send yourself a quick note right from Twitter –no need to do any of that pesky app switching. Here’s how…
Say ‘Hello’ to @myEN
Evernote now lets you send public Twitter messages, and private Direct Messages, right into your Evernote account for searchable, permanent safekeeping. It’s called myEN, and here’s how it works.
Setting up myEN
First, you’ll need an Evernote account. It’s free. Get yours now »
- Follow myEN on Twitter (you will need a Twitter account)
- myEN will follow you back, and send you a DM with a link
- Click the link, sign into Evernote, and connect your Evernote and Twitter accounts
If you have a protected Twitter account, then do the following: follow myEN, accept myEN’s follow request, then send myEN a DM. After that, go to step 3 above.
How to use myEN
- For Public tweets: Add @myEN to the body of any public tweet
- For Direct Messages: Send a DM to myEN to create a new note in Evernote
Tip: Retweet something you like and add @myEN to save it into Evernote.
It usually takes under a minute for a message to show up in your Evernote account, depending on how Twitter is feeling.
SMS notes
Thanks to Twitter’s built-in SMS support, you will now be able to send notes into Evernote from any mobile phone, anywhere in the world. In the US, text message “d myEN [your note]” to 40404 (you will need a Twitter account to do this). Go here to see your country’s Twitter SMS number.
Tweets with Twitpics
A popular way to embed photos into Twitter messages is with Twitpic. If a tweet that you send to Evernote contains a Twitpic URL, a thumbnail of the photo will show up in Evernote along with a link to the original image. Nice.
API developers take note
This integration now adds Twitter to the, ever-growing, list of ways to interact with Evernote, and by extension your apps. Think about it. There are tons of great possibilities. Check out our developer section for more info.
We hope you like our Twitter integration. There’s lots more exciting stuff coming soon.
Update: How fast is it?
The speed with which your notes get into Evernote depends on how you send them and how bogged down Twitter happens to be at the time. Direct messages (DM) to myEN will almost always get into your Evernote account in a minute or two, while public @myEN replies can sometimes take 30 minutes. Either way, don’t worry, the tweets will be there by the time you need to remember them again.
251 Comments
Daniel Marashlian
Wow Andrew! This is a simple, yet powerful integration you guys put together. Kudos to you and the whole Evernote team. It’s making me think of cool ways our customers could take their Tweets from Twitter->Evernote->Pelotonics.
I’ll have to think of some good use cases. Also, I love the idea of sending an SMS message to Evernote!
Good job all around!
Daniel
Kevin Rochowski
Yes!!!! This is perfect, I needed an easy way to capture actions into evernote from anywhere… this does the trick!
Now, any chance of being able to auto-capture notes from RSS feeds as well?
Mike
Awesome! thanks for adding this functionality.
Michael J Pratt
How do we just capture a tweet into EN without actually RT’ing? I may not want to RT every tweet that is important to me. Also, does it go into a new note each time or can we have it add onto an existing note?
Andrew Sinkov
@Michael You can copy the tweet into a DM to myEN.
erik jagger
Awesome! One question: I have 2 twitter accounts, one for my day job as a developer of elearning and one for my cover-of-darkness alter ego as a artist and webcomicer. Can I link both twitterselves to the same EN account?
Much obliged for this great new feature!
Andrew Sinkov
@erik The way it’s set up, you can only link a single Twitter account to a single Evernote account.
Peter
Great !!!
Can you investigate integration of http://www.mobypicture.com too ???
Anyway… Good Job !!
Peter
eric
Fantastic! Perfect – nealy. Give us also the tags. For example: If I hashtag a tweet with #private it will be labeled with the tag “private” in Evernote?
Then, friends, it will really be perfect
eric
Allan White
@ Eric – it will only be perfect when *Twitter* adds tags as a separate field, getting it out of the text body. I’m so tired of taking up my 140 characters with tags.
I’m not sure I want to pollute my twitterstream with another (mysterious to my readers) tag/recipient.
Great idea, Evernote team; I can see it being useful for DMs and the pictures. So much to remember now!
Chris
This is beautiful – thank you!!
Any way to tell Evernote which notebook to send the tweet to? I’m assuming right now it goes to the default.
Peter
HHmm… the @myen option doesn’t seem to work !??
The DM works fine !
Anyone !?
Peter
Mari Adkins
This is just cool! Thank you guys for all your hard work!
Mari Adkins
@Peter – mobypicture integration would rock
Peter
Sorry about @myen option.
It DOES work, but took 1 hour…
Peter
Kurt Schmidt
I can’t wait to try it out! Thanks!
Daniel Johnson, Jr.
I’m looking forward to trying this out, and I just synced up my main Twitter account to my Evernote account. Thanks for the added functionality.
Is there a way to send a tweet to a specific notebook, say, just for Twitter stuff? I’m not sure I want to do that, I’m just wondering if it’s possible to specify or otherwise contextualize something coming from Twitter.
Thanks again!
Andrew Sinkov
@Daniel Right now, all tweets go into your default notebook.
dan
Will this work with protected accounts? Mine is protected and I received and accepted the request to follow me, but haven’t seen the DM show up yet.
Andrew Sinkov
@dan Send myEN and DM. It will reply with a DM containing your setup link.
Imaggard
You guys are AWESOME! That is an incredible addition to the EN feature set. THANKS!
pete
I like this can you adapt this as a buddypress plugin?
(Buddypress CMS is wordpress MU network cms)
http://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/creating-a-custom-buddypress-component/
Renee
Yay!
Molly Gordon
Very cool. Thank you!
Hmmm… now, what else can we use this for?
Saggi Malachi
Seems awesome! The only problem is that you can’t trust the Fail Whale when it comes to important notes
ggm
received and accepted the request to follow me, but haven’t seen the DM show up yet.
Andrew Sinkov
@ggm If it still didn’t show up, send myEN a direct message. It will reply.
Sanji
Great feature !
mika2k1
This would work much better if Evernote allowed for a feed from Friendfeed or Tumblr and alike to automatically repost tweets to Evernote. Having to type ‘@myEN’ at every tweet seems like a hack, more than anything else.
linkingarts
am so impressed w/evernote so far. really pro stuff. thx folks
David Rummls
Awesome! thanks for adding this functionality.
John Piercy
Thanks andrew ,, I’ll give that a try
lisa stephens
I’m so excited about this… what a great thing! Thanks!
Jason
I love this!!!! you guys rock. thank you so much for this idea. I would love to see the url of the statuses be captured in to evernote as the source url, is that possible?
Andrew Sinkov
@Jason myEN does capture the URLs of all public tweets sent into Evernote.
adam
I’m having the same problem. Does this work with protected accounts??
dan says:
Will this work with protected accounts? Mine is protected and I received and accepted the request to follow me, but haven’t seen the DM show up yet.
April 14th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
adam
nevermind- it works with protected accounts. I received my link about 2 min ago- I guess it just took 14 hours for it to get to me
Norio Nomura
I want @myEN supporting #tags.
rainer
can you please add support for tags. or automatically add a specific twitter tag or smthg? thanks!
Brenda
Great I am a twitter addict
Binny V A
Do I have to submit my twitter password or does Evernote use oAuth to connect tow twitter?
Iain Magee
Brilliant! Thanks.
life-without-buildings
This is fantastic. But it’d be great to reverse it and send a note TO Twitter. I’d love to be able to tweet a photo note with geodata to Twitter. The tweet would essentially be 2 links: a link to the photo and link to google maps.
kavin nash
Awesome! now, what else can we use this for?
Do I have to submit my twitter password?
Andrew Sinkov
@kavin You don’t have submit your Twitter password.
udefn
Another option to add entries to your evernote account is to use evernote txt app with udefn. udefn lets you define keywords for different apps/widgets (bots). you simply text in the keyword you defined for evernote followed by the note. it will be added to your evernote account. check it out at udefn.com
Alex Taylor
Famtastic to be able to use Twitter with Evernote now! I think before long Twitter is going to be absolutely everywhere, which is great, cos I love it!
Adam Adamol
This might be good and handy; but I am getting concerned that Evernote’s team’s attention has been on the collecting information; but not that much on organizing the collected information. I feel still Evernote 2.x (copy links) or for that matter tiddlywiki pages (default tiddlers or main menu) are stronger in that regard than Evernote 3.0 with so powerful features in other areas.
Charlie Nichols Browning
Looks great! Thanks again for keeping so active on new features. I’ve just decided to upgrade to the year premium plan.
Rock on Evernote.
Charlie
Lian Vaiphei
Everyone here is going ga ga about evernote’s new feature. It seems to be worth a try.
Bape Nerd
thanks for the great post, my twitter has been growing everyday, this will be a great addition for twitter tools.
Dweeze Snagglebar
I’ve actually been doing this for about 6 months now. I created a separate twitter account with my Evernote email address. I then just would tweet to my bogus Evernote “friend” and it would create a note just like a regular email.
I always wanted to share that as a tip but thought Twitter might not like being inundated with bogus evernote accounts. Yeah! I can be legal again!
Brett Manning
Oh – can’t wait to give this a try – thanks…
RJ Aquino
You may want to put a disclaimer for folks to just think twice about what they want to send via Twitter as I just went to search.twitter.com and searched for @myEn. I realize that for the more savvy users it’s common sense but not everyone seems to be aware that their notes can be seen and searched for in that manner.
Andrew Sinkov
@RJ You’re absolutely right. Any tweet sent publicly with the @myEN reply is seen by all followers and on search.twitter.com. If users want to send a private note, they should send a Direct Message to myEN.
Joshua
myEN won’t sent me a dm with the link
Andrew Sinkov
Hi Joshua. If you are following myEN, and myEN is following you, then send a DM to myEN. You should get a message back with you setup link.
Liani
WOW! This is cool. I can’t wait to try this.
Wedding Speeches
Could not agree more about Twitter – it is a great marketing tool.