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.
268 Comments
Phoenix
Hi, thanks, all cool!!!
toneking
Hi, thanks, all cool!!!
RamRam
Heard about it from @KevinRose and immediately sounded like something I needed. Super excited to start using it. I already made a bunch of notes in just minutes after downloading the app for my iMac and my iPhone. kthnxbai! =)
dhanabalan
No words to explain the use of this software. If any one is not having this he is missing a lot. What a convenient to use. With out
this nothing will move for me.
Dhanapalan
Lisa
I joined evernote months ago the twitter feature sounded great but I never received a DN back and no my account is not protected so months later I’m back and still can’t figure it out. The whoe evernote idea sounds great on paper but to actually use it you would have to be the person who designed it because its not intuitive at all sorry I won’t recommend to anyone.
Andrew Sinkov
Lisa, sorry to hear that you’re having trouble. You should try unfollowing, then refollowing @myen on Twitter.
blackfeathers
i am also having this issue and tried the re-follow with no luck. i see from older comments that this has been an issue before or still a persistent one.
wouldn’t it be possible just make an oauth twitter connection link just like other services do? that way we don’t have to deal with @myen getting back to us & finally move on.
am roland
Lisa can we be friends am roland from holland
blackfeathers
it finally worked for me, i had to wait awhile. but i still would like an answer about why not another implementation of just clicking ‘allow’ to connect.
MICR
Nice, Nice this will help me finally get organized. Thanks for the article.
Joan
that is really cool, i never knew i could use evernote like that
Ohakosim Everistus
Thank you for showing people the right way to do it
Scott Matheson
Is there a way to have anything I favorite/star in Twitter (and Google Reader, while you’re at it) be sent to EN automatically? I’d love to have all my “read laters” in one place.
stangm
This works great, I would like to request one feature. Can you convert twitter hashtags to Evernote tags? So If I tweet:
“d myen this is very cool #twitter #evernote”
it appears in evernote as
“this is very cool”
with the tags “twitter” and “evernote”
Sophia
Is there any chance to connect 2 or more twitter accounts with 1 evernote account?
Geoff P
I’d like to know if Evernote can connect to two twitter accounts too.
As the original post was August 2010 and it’s now March 2011, and it’s unanswered, I guess the answer is ‘No’.
Andrew Sinkov
One Evernote can only connect to one twitter account.
Frederick Y. Martello
I have been trying to upgrade to Evernote Premium, but your site form insists something is missing. I use a middle initial on my credit card name, but no matter where I put it, I get the same error message. What to do? I give up trying, I guess you don’t want my money. (haha) Please help.
Sincerely,
Frederick Y. Martello
GCT
Not availble if with Telefonica in Spain. sh.
What does my provider have to do with the apps i am able to download ?
well.. what can I say.. no evernote for us !
Julio Sandling
Is there any chance to connect 2 or more twitter accounts with 1 evernote account?
marianne richmond
I don’t get the DM with the link. I unfollowed and tried again but still no DM. Suggestions?
Thanks!
Tota
Same here. Didn’t get the DM.
Nicolas
it would be nice if the image recognition from EverNote could pick up the text from the twitpics for automatic indexing
Cheers!
mathys
please check out the Mobypicture API, would be very useful to have that included…
sally
I love the @Packratius service where tweets I bookmarked got saved to Delicious.
This is a much more convenient and discreet way of bookmarking tweets with links you want to check out later as one doesn’t always want to save their own tweets.
Marco
TOP!
Fouad Itani
I followed @myEN but I still havent received a DM with the link.
I tried to unfollow and refollow several time but still facing the same issue. Any help?
Fouad Itani
it just worked after the 3rd refollow
Adrian
Wow, where have I been? Must have been living under a rock to not notice this. I’m a new user but really excited about the potential of using Evernote and Twitter combined.
David
I dont like the way this works as it requires too much typing (for us lazy people) Why not use the Twitter API and simply let evernote pick up anything thats been marked as a favourite? Im only guessing that the API would allow this, but it would seem so logical. Maybe someone needs to wtire a trunk App for this.
David Gibson
I like the functionality but I’d like to see all the tweets go into one note and not have one note for each tweet. Possible?
brian meagher
Feature request: A way to designate which Notebook @myEN Tweets get saved in.
Thanks for the great app!
~brian
MIke Hardin
This is a handy function, but would me MUCH more valuable if url’s were automatically converted to hyperlinks when imported into Evernote. Normally I save a tweet because it contains a link to something I want to read later. It’s a clickable link in twitter, but when I get to evernote I have to copy the link, and either paste it in my browser’s address bar, or in the “source” field in my note and then click it. Too much hassle.
MIke Hardin
Your video shows URLs showing up as links, but that’s not working for me. This is especially frustrating if I view the note on my mobile (Android) device, as it’s not easy to isolate the unlinked URL to copy and paste.
marcoiac
i believe i followed and unfollowed and refollowed @myEN a million times. still no DM. does it just take a long time to get the DM? (but why? i doubt it’s a manual thing, right?) or do i need a magic wand?
marcoiac
the trick for me was to send a DM to @myEN. even though my twitter account is not protected, the DM i sent out did the trick
soykan
cool stuff!
Nathan Barlow
I followed @myEN and it sent me the direct message with the link. However when I go to click on the link, it takes me to a page where it says “This URLs or Page has been blocked” – I’ve tried going to this on all devices, and it isn’t the result of any settings on my computer..Help! Please?
My Twitter: nathanalan21
Andrew Sinkov
Please contact Evernote support: http://s.evernote.com/support
yoshisa iwasa
連携、宜しくお願いします。＼(^o^)／
Ｈallo! Ｉ’m happy.
Chantale
DM is not working for me!
Andrew Sinkov
Try un-following/re-following. If that still doesn’t work, then contact Evernote support: http://s.evernote.com/support
zakeu
I HAVEN´T USED IT YET BUT IT REALLY SEEMS TO BE VERY USEFULL, HELPFULL AND A LOT OF FUN ALONG.
Ayush
I think this is a cool feature… though I wish there was a way of adding tweets to evernote WITHOUT RTing them. I mean, why do ALL my followers have to know what I am RTing?
Boils Treatment
I have followed all the steps carefully but am still experiencing problems linking my Evernote and Twitter accounts. What to do?
Andrew Sinkov
Please contact our support team, they will be able to help: http://s.evernote.com/support
Ricky
great app! I this will really help! Thnx!
Alejandro
Can it automatically and periodically backup my timeline?
Jane D
If I want to put someone else’s twitter comment into my notebook i.e. I see something interesting that I want to save, then how do I do that? I can’t press the re-tweet button as you are unable to add in any text (so can’t add @myen) and you can’t access the text in other people’s messages in the timeline. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Luiz Valerio
Great! Very cool!
Andi Roberts
A great idea – Just added this – a great way to sending reminders / quotes to self!
Jelle
I installed the link with Twitter
Your tip to add @myen for a RETWEET can not work
Has Twitter changed the function anymore prevent adding info?
please explain
Chris Smith
Twitter has a new functionality that retweets all in one click, so you don’t get the chance to add or alter the tweet text.
In order to add @myEN to your RT, you have to use the older kind of retweet (which gives you a copy of the tweet which you can add to or change). Availability of the old RT will depend on your Twitter client. For your mobile, for example, you have to select an app that has two kinds of RT instead of just Twitter’s new RT.
Sahar
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Muchammad
I don't quite know what to make of it yet. @Biz added an adnuddem to it saying more changes are coming that will make things better, maybe this is just the first of it. Maybe they're adding threaded @replies or something. I don't know. I can't quite get my head around what the fuss is yet – but I'm sure the fuss is justified I'm just not quite understanding how I'm affected yet.
hong50
OK
Cindy
Would you do that for Sina Weibo too?
That would be cool!
Toner
Very Nice, with as many tweets as we are doing, this will be helpful to keep track of past tweets.
Lidia Gutiérrez
Evernote + Twitter = “the bomb!” Useful tool. Thanks a lot!
G Johansson
Didn’t receive any DM either so I sent a test message and then I got the DM back to make the integration.
Perhaps help someone out there…
saburow
It is block accidentally after follow myEn. Even if it refollow after that, myEn does not refollow. Why is it? DM can be sent.
xithia
Yeah!!!
A new opportunity to express myself and keep my Face!!!
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!
Blessed Be,
Eliza