I can’t speak for everyone at Evernote, but, personally, I think Google Chrome rocks the house. And today, we have a very cool Google Chrome tip to share with you.
Searching Evernote with Chrome
Google Chrome’s address bar doubles as a search bar, which makes it really easy to search various sites without actually going to them first. Now, you can add Evernote as a search engine in Google Chrome and search your notes from anywhere. Here’s how to set it up:
- Go to the Preferences (Mac) or Tools>Options (Windows) menu
- Click on the Manage button in the Default Search section, in the Basic tab on Windows
- Click to add a new search engine
Type the following:
- Name: Evernote
- Keyword: Evernote.com
- URL: http://www.evernote.com/search?q=%s
That’s it. To use it, type “evernote.com” into the search bar and hit Tab—Chrome will auto-complete the URL, so you can hit Tab as soon as “evernote.com” pops up. Now, do a search. This will take you straight into Evernote.
Don’t forget about the Web Clipper
Google now supports extensions on both Windows and Mac, which means that everyone out there can take advantage of the Evernote Web Clipper extension. If you had an earlier version of Chrome for Mac installed, you might need to first re-install the latest version of Chrome.
Also available in Firefox
You can set Firefox to do this too.
- Click on Organize Bookmarks in the Bookmark menu
- Add a new Bookmark
Type the following:
- Name: Evernote
- Location: http://www.evernote.com/search?q=%s
- Keyword: Evernote (or whatever is easiest for you remember)
Now you can simply type the keyword that you set into the address bar, followed by a space and your search. For the example I used in the video, you would type: “Evernote fried rice”
27 Comments
Kev
That is pretty cool, I’ll remember that when I start using Chrome. Unfortunately Chrome is No Sale for me until they have 1password support.
Mrs. Micah
Awesome. I don’t actually use Chrome much, but I think I’m going to use that search string in my QuixApp extensions. They built in a way to clip to Evernote, but not a search function.
Martijn Aslander
Very nifty!
one more thing…;)
If you want to search ALL notebooks instead of the currently selected one, you need to adjust the url:
https://www.evernote.com/Home.action#v=t&b=0&z=d&x=%s
With this url, you can instantly access all of your precious saved items
I just learned this from @hermankopinga, kudos for him
(we love to hear about improvements regarding this solution)
Ryan
Is there a way to have Firefox’s AwesomeBar search Evernote (in addition to history, bookmarks, etc)?
Jonathan Gardner
This is a very helpful tip. I am always looking for ways to GTD faster.
NTT
But this assumes that you’re logged into Evernote from Chrome all the time..
Also, something similar can be done on almost all browsers right?
@Ryan Esp for you..
In Firefox you can make a new bookmark with the following address ‘https://www.evernote.com/Home.action#v=t&b=0&z=d&x=%s’ and in the keyword insert your fav keyword. I use ‘ev?’. So the next time I go to the awesome bar, and type ‘ev? aardvark’ I’ll search for aardvark in my evernote..
Antony Pace
The instructions are rubbish!
- Menu is Customise and control Google Chrome and looks like a spanner
- Select Options
- Select Basics Tab
- In Default search section press the Manage button
- Click Add…
- Name: Evernote
- Keyword: en
- URL: http://www.evernote.com/search?q=%s
To use type en followed by space
You can do the same in Firefox, though I can’t remember how at the moment. I think you right click on a search box and save keyword or similar.
Hope that helps.
Ant
(Love Evernote!)
mattido
Wow! This is handy. Nice work, Evernote crew.
marc Bochy
The instructions are not even close for windows. Better not to say anything then to give out info like that.
Andrew Sinkov
@marc Bochy We updated the instructions to be more accurate for Windows users.
Pishabh Badmaash
Whoa! Just wondering when the web UI will move into the new melliunium !!
Jeremy
If you know how to use the About:Config in Firefox, You can search Evernote from the Awesome Bar. Change the text in the string Keyboard.url to the Evernote Search protocol, and search from the awesome bar. Visit my website for an article on how to do this.
Fernando
This also works for Internet Explorer 8.
Simply go to http://www.ieaddons.com/en/createsearch.aspx
Then fill in the URL field with: http://www.evernote.com/search=?q=TEST
You will then be able to use Evernote as a search provider from IE8.
Stephen Hebert
Great tip!
Ryan
@NTT Thanks for the info on Firefox’s bar!
Daniel
@Jeremy, where’s your website?
There must be a way to do this for Opera too.
ziru
This feature was requested half a year ago. Sort of coming late, but as a long-time evernote user, I am still glad to see it finally make its way.
http://forum.evernote.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=7925&start=0
ziru
well, i checked the post again. the request was made back in 2008.
Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
WOW! Awesome!!!! Just wanted to say THANK YOU SO MUCH for adding this! This has been a really important missing feature for me for a long time. I use Linux, so there is no desktop client available for me for Evernote, and I’ve been looking, waiting and asking for this for a while now. Evernote devs, you rock! And honestly, this restores my faith in you guys. Thanks very much!! =:)
macaw parrot
I have use Google Chrome with Evernote for testing and I happy with it.
Brian Kennedy
Thanks Martijn for the more detailed URL string. One more thing, for people like me that hate the thumbnail view, use v=l instead of v=t and that will change your view to list mode.
https://www.evernote.com/Home.action#v=l&b=0&z=d&x=%s
Carlos
Google chrome is a really good web browser but i still like firefox. It’s just that firefox provides useful plugins for webmasters.
Cape Cod Web Design
Google chrome does rock, and so does evernote put them together and wow! can’t wait to test this out!
Sandra
I agree to Carlos above- of course Google Chrome is a lean fast browser, but I stick to Firefox as you get so many plugins for free.
Eric Nadler
You can do the same thing in Safari on the Mac if you use the Glims plugin. Glims does a lot of other cool stuff also:
http://www.machangout.com/
ryan
This has been a really important missing feature for me for a long time
Bill
I can’t get the evernote plugin to work on chrome for mac- any ideas?