Emailing Into Evernote Just Got Better

Product updates | 16 Mar 201016 Mar 10 | By Andrew Sinkov

343 comments

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.

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.
http://parkerwebivision.com 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.
sate

When I create a new note by sending an email, I notice that the images don’t auto resizing in my Android phone .. I see them at their original size.
While if they are created in any other way, resizing happens properly.

any idea?
Mike

I really hate the random email addresses we’re given.
Year by year it just gets worse with more random access codes to remember.
I use a Mac and am running 10.7.4

Does anybody know if there’s a way to set my devices so I can enter a more memorable email address and have it auto-change, for instance by a script or something, into the horrendous one I was assigned by Evernote?
- Mark
  
  I made a new contact in my address book called “Evernote Email” and entered the random email for this contact’s email address. It synchs with all devices through cloud; and I jusrt typing “Evernote ” in and the email pops up. Easy for me.
- Engela
  
  a very good question Mike, I was looking for an answer on this exact subject, but Mark answered it almost perfectly for me. I still believe it would be better if Evernote allows us to choose our own email address.
- dnowww
  
  Just use redirection rules. You can register a new email account (e.g mikes.evernote@gmail.com) and redirect all incoming mail to your random evernote emain address. You need to set up the redirection just once.
  - Brian Murphy
    
    Redirect does not work for previous emails. Unfortunately, I let my membership slip and was able to get everything back but for whatever reason I had a new email address and had this email address assigned to several EMAIL to RSS feeds, Newsletters, Blogs, and forwarders that I created in multiple email accounts so I could forward all email to that single Evernote Address.
    
    This should answer the question below also, Why do you need an evernote email? Because you can consolidate all your newsletters, RSS feeds that allow email option, forwarder on internal and external email addresses, blogs, forums.
    
    Not to mention, awesome HTML 5 tools such as Clearly for Chrome or AddIt, Clipper, aka multiple extensions in Chrome so that you may sign in using that email address and forward any webpage you wish to collect to Evernote.
    
    I also use Techsmith SnagIT which has a add-in for Evernote. SnagIt allows you to capture anything on the screen and forward it to Evernote.
    
    Another example, Iphone – take picture of receipts – forward to evernote.
    
    Next, I can’t even begin to describe the Trunk section of Evernote off the main website. The integration tools for Evernote alone like sending PDF’s to Evernote, entire webpages, now word documents, excel, anything you want.
Matthew

When I email notes to an Evernote Notebook is works.

The tags…work sometimes.
Same notebook….same syntax Subject Title @notebook #tag1 #tag2 #tag3

Sometimes the tags appear as tags…other times they become part of the note title and no tags are created and must be cleaned up manually.

Not sure why. Emailing from a v1 iPad.
Kurt Higgins

Create a contact in you address book with the random email address you get and “Evernote” as the name. Then just start typing “ever” and your phone/tablet/whatever will auto populate with the obtuse address.
Ravi

While being able to email stuff to evernote is great. the challenge that I have is remembering the names of the various tags. and therefore I like the “Clipper” plugins for outlook and the browsers; where you are able to choose the right tags. It would be brilliant to have a similar plugin for Ipad and iphone email clients.

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