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.

Bob Rockhill

I can’t get it to work either. I have a friend named Eva and it insists on sending it to her. It will put ever note into a subject line, but won’t address it to Evernote, even though I have it as a contact.
http://pastorcope.blogspot.com Jeremy

Siri recognizes it for me. But for those who are having trouble – just give evernote a random name. As long as the email address is correct for your account it doesn’t matter what you call it. Call it Bob, Fred, Pizza, Captain America, or Turd Ferguson. It doesn’t matter.
http://Radio4by4.com johannes drakenberg

Works perfectly on the first try, I think those who get’s error are sadly just doing it wrong somewhere.
All though it sucks that i have to set a subject for each mail, any voice work arounds for that anyone?

Great feature evernote team, you rock!
http://icssquarea.wordpress.com iCSSA

Loving what you guys are doing.
jholly

I used a different approach.

Go to YOUR contact. Add a ‘related person.’ Select your Evernote contact. Set the relationship to ‘assistant.’

Now you can say ‘Email my assistant.’
- Kirby Krieger
  
  Brilliant! Thanks.
  
  Fwiw, I recommend setting up “My Spouse”, “My son”, “My Mother”, as well.
JT

The tip is working for me. One work around for those that it is not working for.

You can dictate a note with Siri and then manually email that note to your evernote email. It is an extra step but works well.
Juan J. Arrieta

The instructions worked fine for me. Obviously, I had to create an Evernote account first and install the app, but once I did that and I followed the instructions here, it worked. Siri recognized me saying “Email Note” (I had created the contact as Ever for first name and Note for last name) and sent what I had dictated into the system. The online system as well as the PC and the IPhone app showed the new note within a matter of seconds. Thanks for the great tip!
Phil Bowman

My Evernote contact in Gmail is ‘Send to Evernote’ (I have similar ones for RTM, Instapaper, etc).

I’ve found the most successful tip above is “Send to Evernote is my assistant”. I did try “is my Evernote” but that didn’t work.

Hint – if you’re using Gmail to manage your contacts, you also need iCloud contacts turned on (Settings / iCloud), if only to have an entry for you that will store the relationships. Gmail only handles Spouse, Assistant and Manager. Ended up with my mother listed as my assistant…
Stacey

The trick with using “at sign” or “pound sign” is to say it as one word, pause, name of notebook or tag. So:
atsign home
If you say it too slowly it won’t make the character. Takes some practice.
paul ashby

Anyone know if its possible to make a check mark for to do lists with Siri??

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