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.
313 Comments
Lingfei
Hi I am a user and have a question here. I use desktop, web and blackberry versions.
I am just trying to use rich text formatting as bold, italics fonts.
If I am using email to post feature, leave the content blank and add a .doc or .docx file as attachment, could you please convert file content to the notebook?
An alternative would be that you can add that feature to your mobile version. So I would have to use WordPress for various fonts and ordered lists.
Thank you. Hope that following comments will send a notification to my email, or please email me.
EverFan11
Now, if only we could customize the email address more, and send files from it, also needs calendar and contacts, add those, then Evernote my favorite place on my phone, computer, and tablet
CharlyGC
I tried sending several emails into my Evernote in my iPad2 following the rule , but it does not work. I already sent message to Evernote for help.
vivo-ay
good
david brown
Onthe email into evernote function: I get the anti spam intent…but for it tobe useful, it needs to be customizable (memorable) for User. Sure wish it were. Sigh.
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
czuque
A work-around I use is a “catch all” notebook where I dump items for future relocation. That helps me to know where to find something that did not go where I thought it should.
Thanks, Evernote! Good stuff.
cz