Fun Tip: Dictate Notes with Siri on iPhone 4S

Our Notes | 08 Nov 201108 Nov 11 | By Andrew Sinkov

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Siri, the iPhone 4S digital assistant, does so many useful things; it helps you find the nearest pizza joint, reminds you to buy bread and even quotes 2001: A Space Odyssey. Did you know that you can also use Siri to dictate notes into your Evernote account? It’s true, and best of all, you probably already have it configured.

The set up is very straightforward. First, make Evernote a contact in your address book with your incoming Evernote email address. You can add the email by going into Evernote > Settings > Evernote email address.

Launch Siri and say “Send email to Evernote.” Next, dictate your email and send it off. The message will show up in your default notebook. Even cooler, you can say “Send email to Evernote. Make apple pie for family reunion,” and Siri will send that note into your account.

It’s the hands-free way to create notes. Perfect for when you’re driving, jogging or just not in the typing mood.

Jeff

I gave my Evernote contact the nickname of Elephant and Siri seems to handle that. Otherwise she kept making a note with the word ‘Ever’ as the text. “send an email to elephant” works every time.
Gail

Arggh. I really want Siri now!!!
http://silverfacereverb.wordpress.com/ Kevin Buran

I have found that it helps if you go to contacts and enter “Ever” as the first name of the contact you are adding and “Note” as the last of that same contact. Then you can command Siri to, “email Note”. Siri recognizes that fairly easily. You can then dictate you subject and message. Magic.
- Stuart
  
  This is the only way I could get it to work as well. “Send email to Ever” works fine. Good enough for me… it is free after all.
David

The Speaktoit app on Android will put notes straight into Evernote. No need for email or texts.
Hudson

This worked great for me on my first attempt. Thanks for the tip!
David

‘Elephant’, ‘Note’, or any other name that Siri consistently recognizes seems to be the best approach. This may or may not actually make a difference, but at least in my brief testing, it helps to say “send email to Evernote…”, and also make sure to accent or put emphasis on the ‘Ever’.
Paul Blackler

this all sounds good but how do I get Siri?
- Andrew Sinkov
  
  It’s comes with the iPhone 4S.
http://ministrytechonline.com J. Michael Hite

No matter how I enter Evernote as a name, it creates an email but always responds “to whom shall I send it?” Epic fail for me
Quinn

Good idea but like everyone is saying in the Comments above- it doesn’t work. Siri doesn’t recognize Evenote as a contact. It does work with Apple’s text message app but you cannot assign it to a specific notebook like the Evernote Team claims:

Congrats! You’ve just emailed a note to your Evernote account. Did you know that you can send it to
to a specific notebook and assign tags to it? Here’s how:

1. Select a destination notebook for your email by adding @[notebook name] to the end of the subject line.
2. Add tags to your note by typing #[tag name] at the end of the subject line. This feature works with existing tags in your account.
3. To designate a destination notebook and add tags, be sure to list the notebook name before the tags.

An example subject:
Fwd: Recipe for Bouillabaisse @Recipes #soup #fish #french

Happy emailing and organizing in Evernote!

Thanks,

- The Evernote team
Sterling

Has anyone been able to get Siri to do the “@” sign?
- JT
  
  Siri language – “at sign” = @

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