One of the many ways to get stuff into your Evernote account is by sending notes to your personal Evernote email address. Today, we launched a big improvement to this functionality that lets you specify the destination Notebook and assign Tags to your emailed notes.
How it works
First, find your Evernote incoming email address. It’ll look something like [username].12345@m.evernote.com. The address is located under Account Info in the desktop versions of Evernote, under Settings in Evernote Web, and in the Sync tab of Evernote for iPhone. We recommend adding this email address to your address book or contact list.
Next, try emailing something into Evernote. In the subject line of your email, write the title of the note as you want it to appear in your account. In the same subject line, add one or both of the following:
- Use @ for notebooks: Use an @ symbol followed by the name of your destination notebook
- Use # for tags: Use a # symbol followed by the tag or tags you wish to assign. You can have multiple tags just make sure each one starts with an #
For example, Subject: Trip to Florida @travel #expense report
Would create a note titled Trip to Florida in my travel notebook, tagged with expense report.
Notes on this feature
- This functionality only works for existing notebooks and tags
- At this time, you cannot create new notebooks or tags with this feature
- In the subject line, always put the note title first, then add any notebooks or tags
- This feature will not work for notebook names that contain an ‘@’ or a ‘#’, and it will not work for tags that contain a ‘#’ in their name.
Resetting your email address
Your Evernote email is randomly generated to protect you from spam. If you ever want to change it to another random address, click “Reset incoming email” in the Setting section of Evernote Web. If you do reset it, don’t forget to update your address book.
292 Comments
Bill
I have Evernote installed on my work computer and an android tablet. The company uses a proxy which works fine on the desktop version, however, the android app doesn’t seen to connect to the server to sync. Any ideas? Thanks
Miguel
Every time when i send some note to my evernote e-mail, the message return to gmail with an error:
“The error that the other server returned was: 550 550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist”
Tracy
Mine bounced back the first time I tried it too, the second time I made sure the Subject line was filled out properly and it went through
MIke
It coud and should be that your company wireless network belongs to another VLAN. The vlan for wireless would have a more strict policy than the VLAN wired LAN. The only good way of dealing with this is talking with you network administrator.
Georgia Gibbs
I just discovered this note. This is a great Feature… Thank you.
Rick
This works great, but unless you have your desktop client up and running, how do you remember all the “tags” you have created? Having a tag called Travel Cost and trying to tag it to Travel Expenses will not sync up. But for now, this is great.
Alex
you just tag it later on your desktop!
jaileer
this is BRILLIANT!
Courtney
Love love love this feature. Works great and make storing important items even easier. Love Evernote in general. Can’t live without it.
Mitsuhisa SUZUKI
Thank you.
I get a mail from system of EN.
There is LIMIT 250 post per 1DAY. for NOTE vis ENmail
Clear!
thank you!
Christophe DRUET
It looks like the @ is properly functioning whereas the # isn’t…
Paeng
Wow, cool feature!
Martin Liebermann
Contrary to the post, this feature does not work with multiple tags, but only with one.
As Evernote has been unable to provide proper import/export with Thunderbird, this is a feature I use quite often – I just forward mails to Evernote.
So, this is a bug I’d like to see fixed.
Uli Kunkel
I’m having the same problem. It doesn’t recognize multiple tags.
Ted
Ditto. I can’t forward with multiple tags either
Diana
Hi, I´m trying to create an account witn my evernote adress in my phone and I´ve been asked by:
IMAP or POP3 server?
mail server?
port?
Please help! I don´t have any idea.
Bob
You don’t need to set up an email account for this Diana, just set up a new Contact with your Evernote email address as the Contact’s email address. Then when you send or forward an email use that Contact’s name to pull up the Evernote email address. I use “EverNote” as the Contact’s name.
John
Yeah, understand that being the way to get info from the phone to the Evernote notebooks. I am looking for the other way, I want my notes on my phone, read only if no other way.
I can see my notes using a web browser, but that is not helpfull when I am off-line. A Java (j2me) client would be great, but that one is going nowhere fast.
Nigel
John
Download the Evernote app to your phone. It has full functionality and syncs with your Evernote account.
Brett
How do I email to a folder inside a stack? Such as email/personal for example?
Kasey Fleisher Hickey
Hi Brett, you can create a Shared Notebook or make a notebook public and then send the link via email.
Brett
Not quite what I was looking for – I’ve headed down a different avenue. Thanks for the reply.
Constance
Kasey
How can you send via e-mail? I’m not able to achieve that. Thanks
Kasey Fleisher Hickey
Yes, you can find your Evernote email address in your preferences. Add that email address to your contacts. Whenever you want to email something to your Evernote account, just send it to this email.
JamesE
Brett–you figured this out by now–just ignore the stack name, use @ plus the notebook name.
Rebekah
Can you send the note you have made in evernote to someone else?
Kasey Fleisher Hickey
Yes, you can select to “Share” a note via email.
Daren Thomas
This feature is *great* but could be *better*: I’d like to have a separate evernote email address that already includes a set of tags and a notebook to send to. That way, anything sent there will automatically be tagged and placed in the proper notebook…
Sunjoy Khetani
Well all i can say is Evernote keeps on getting better and better. Keep it up guys.
simple and free
F*ckin’ awesome things here. I’m very glad to see your article. Thanks a lot and i am looking forward to contact you. Will you kindly drop me a mail?
Carl-Robert Hall
Your “F*ckin’ awsome” is quite unnecessary. Please polish your language a little in the future.
Any kind of swearing, foul language etc., is really not appreciated by the majority of people using Evernote
Carolyn
Just downloaded Evernote (free version) on my MAC b/c I miss the OneNote I had on my PC. When I forward an email from my Mail version 4.5 (not using outlook) to my Evernote Account, the email comes through but no sign of an attachment. With Onenote I could access the attachment. Am I doing something wrong?
Jay
Hello, I am new to evernote but like it so far! I just started using the email feature but here is my issue… I get emailed our minutes once a week but it is an attachment and I was wondering how to get it to post the attachment as a new note instead of just the email. infact, I don’t see the attachment at all?
Andrew Sinkov
The entire email comes in as a single note. It isn’t possible to have elements broken out into individual notes.
Chris
Love the email to Evernote feature – totally awesome. Would be great to be able to create new tags (and notebooks) through that feature, though. Would make it much more useful. Thanks!
Kristin
How do you email into one of your Linked Notebooks?
Andrew Sinkov
You can email into your own notebooks only. The only way to email into a notebook shared with you by another user would be to have that user share their Evernote email address with you.
Gordon Currie
In terms of sending the email out, I created an aliased an alias on my server to allow for team members.
Ex; Created alias “teamevernote1@eldoren.com”
Added 4 team members (example):
customevernoteemail1@m.evernote.com
customevernoteemail2@m.evernote.com
customevernoteemail3@m.evernote.com
customevernoteemail4@m.evernote.com
Then when I need to share stuff, I sent to one address and they all get it in their accounts. I can script custom Subject names if required for tagging and folder distribution.
Love the product, works great!
Gordon Currie – Eldoren.com
Sandie Hines
When I try ti sync, I get a message saying Synchronization failed.
” NSInvalidArgumentException” What is happening?
Andrew Sinkov
If you have any pending notes, try deleting them. If that doesn’t help uninstall and reinstall the app on your iOS device. If you continue to see issues, please contact our support team: http://support.evernote.com
Chris
Hi, I’ve just tried out this feature but it seems like the notes I send via email don’t go into the right NB (they go into the default NB though) if the name of the NB contains a space like in “Read later” while it works fine for NBs with no spacing in their title like “Archive”. Is there some sintax error on my part? Thanks
Gordon Currie
I found that the Folder names are case sensitive. That help?
Example:
@backpack and @Backpack are different
Cheers, Gordon
Robert
No email is delivered to default Notebook if the Notebook name you are sending the email to has a space in the name
Christian
The @NB feature isn’t working for NB titles that have spaces like @Read later. Tagging works fine. Any ideas? Thanks
Manas
This is a very gr8 feature. I am using Microsoft One since last 3 years and but ever note will beat One note in this feature.
This very useful.
ben
Is there any way to append a note to existing one by email?
Chris
Would be nice to create tags from email. I understand maybe not creating Notebooks but tags should be allowed to be created from the subject line.
Sam
Is there a way to turn off the auto-generated email of “Emailing to Evernote: Tips and Tricks” that I seem to get every time I email something to Evernote? I can’t seem to find the setting anywhere.
Thanks.
Doug
Can set the source URL when emailing into Evernote?
… Please?
Roman
+1 (I’d like to have this as well)
Daniel
+1 another vote for this
Tom
I had a tool in Outlook that transferred the email with attachments into Evernote. Upgraded the other day and tool disappeared. How do I get it back.
Richard
I keep having this issue with emailing – the first time that I attempt to email a note it fails, it gets to the default folder but not to the one that I select (Important Note @Important Folder) However, if I go back to my email and resend it (no changes) just go into the sent mail folder, select the email and press send it will work fine.
Any ideas?
Richard
sarah
evernote i love you
suhail
awesome, its cool. i love managing everything through my email, even the social networks, so this one’s a cool feature for guy like me.
Tony
I found a quite handy service on http://www.everandi.com now when we are talking about mailing notes to your Evernote account or subscribing to different lists with your Evernote accounts email address. I started to use the EverandI service a while ago and use it to route and split information (it can do a lot of other stuff as well) between my default email account and my Evernote account and it works like a charm.
If you use email to get your notes into Evernote then this might be worth looking at. Currently they hand out about 100 free Premium accounts, but I don’t know how many they have left. :/
Have a good one!
–Tony
Robert
Just when I think it would be cool if Evernote did….
I lok online and bam there it is. Thanks for making my life easier Evernote!
Lemi
I love this functionality! I use my five years old Sony-Ericsson phone to simply record audio note and email it as an attachment. Notes are usually not more than 100KB, so couple of €uros per month for basic 600MB operator plan is more than enough! Works with photos and videos as well!
Great!
park hee myoung
we happy
Dane
I just tagged a note via email and the tag just showed up in the subject line instead of creating a tag…
nico
soso
Ja'Nise
I’m so happy that your happy feel the rainbow .Lol .
Thom
Help, I screwed up when I installed on computer I put in a different user name. Now it threatens to “remove info from computer. Different user name for computer vs phone.
Heather
Not to worry – file a support case here: https://www.evernote.com/about/contact/support/ and our technicians will help you out.
Ed
I have been emailing to my evernote address but can’t find them. How do I find eveything that I have sent over the past year?
I have it in my contacts so it populates to send sothat’s not the problem but I just don’t see where you find what you sent. I have an Iphone but to set up a new email you need all the technical details Incoming outgoing port numbers etc.
Thanks!
Nigel
Ammendment to my comment above.
it appears emailed notes cannot be sent to a note stack, only a notebook within a stack. I can live with that. [:o)
Would be great if we could create a new notebook from the email subject.
Really loving Evernote. Thanks