Evernote Web Gets File Drag and Drop in Chrome and Safari

Product updates | 27 May 201027 May 10 | By Andrew Sinkov

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Every so often our engineers introduce a feature that has me staring at my screen slack-jawed, wondering how in the world that sort of magic is even possible. Today, is one of those days. Evernote Web now lets you drag and drop files from your desktop into notes when using Google Chrome or Safari.

No way?!? That’s so cool.

You have two options:

Grab a file from your desktop and drag and drop it onto a notebook in the left-hand notebook panel. This will create a new note containing just that file.
Open a new note and drag the file into the note. When you drag the file over the note, you will see a green bar appear along the top of the note. Drop it on that green bar.

Log into Evernote Web to try it out for yourself »

Don’t forget, free users can attach images, audio, and PDFs. Premium users can attach any file type, up to 50MB.

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Sharing and collaboration

Evernote Web allows you to share your notebooks with individuals or the world. Evernote Premium users can grant others the right to edit notes in these shared notebooks. The drag and drop feature works for these shared notebook, as well. Learn more about our sharing features here.

Other browsers

We currently support Google Chrome and Safari. We will try to enable these features in other popular browsers once more advanced versions of those browser are released.

Andrew

Although we still need a Linux version this makes things a little easier
jay armstrong

Awesome. That just made evernote about twice as useful for this happy linux user.
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great work this make much more faster creating note file..good job on this..
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this cool..make things lot more easier
http://havar.info Håvar I. Henriksen

Why no Firefox support? As far as I know, Firefox 3.6 was the first browser to ship with the drag-and-drop of files feature, then Google Chrome and Safari came later.
http://www.facebook.com/Pablo432 -Pablo-

Sad that you haven’t been giving Firefox much love lately. I hope you will implement this feature soon for us (Firefox users) soon… I really see no reason why you need to wait for an update in the browser when many other sites are already doing it (like Box or even Gmail).
As much as you may like Chrome and it’s Webkit relatives, Firefox is still by far the most widely used browser behind Internet Explorer. And despite all the buzz about Chrome we have heard during the last years, it’s still way behind even coming close to Firefox for the foreseeable future. I would think you’d be more focused on bringing these kind of features to the most widely used browsers first.

Greetings,

-Pablo-
AndrewG NY

Agree with other posters–please don’t neglect Firefox. The kind of user that appreciates what EN has to offer is exactly the kind of user that appreciates the vast extensibility (addons, etc.) that Firefox offers.
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Thanks !

it makes much of the job easier.
Valon

Web sorting on note Title is vital (at least to me). This is a very basic feature of any organization tool.

Firefox and IE are used by more people than Chrome and Safari.

But good on the improvement. Love Evernote – just want that title sorting….
http://www.federicocalore.it Federico

Sorry, just read in a recent post that the attachment feature is still to be implemented.
Looking forward to it, it’s really key for me.

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