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Quick Tip Friday: Emailing Into Your Evernote Account

Tips + Guides | By Stefanie Fazzio
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Did you know that you can send emails from your inbox directly into your Evernote account and automatically assign them to destination notebooks? If you haven’t discovered this feature yet, you’ll find that it’s a great way to save messages like electronic receipts, travel information, and anything else you might want to find later in a place that you can search and access from any computer or mobile device (your Evernote account!).

To do this:

  1. Forward the email to your Evernote email address. Don’t know what your Evernote email address is? Go to the Account Info area of Evernote for Windows and Mac, Settings on Evernote Web and the Sync tab on Evernote for iPhone and iPad — your Evernote email will be listed there. On your Android device, go to Settings then Account Info to find your Evernote email.
  2. To specify the destination notebook, append the subject line with the symbol “@” followed by the name of an existing notebook; to add a tag, include “#” followed by an existing tag.
  3. If sending emails to a recently created notebook or tagging with a recently created tag, remember to sync your account first.
  4. If adding both notebook and tag information, be sure to include the notebook name first.

Have you been using this feature? Share your tips in the comments.

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  • Marcus Nevarez

    Thanks Gates VP. Not sure what “grok” means and for sure I’m lost with the whole #tag syntax stuff.

    • Graeme

      Marcus,
      To fully grok “grok”, you need to read the book Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein, 1961.)

  • netviber

    what Account Info. area? I cannot see this to establish my evernote email!

  • Tom CTO

    I use this feature a lot but this article taught me the @ / # tricks for folders and tags. Awesome! This will save me a lot of cleanup and organization time!

  • Rob

    I would really like to see automatic tagging for emailed notes, as the new Evernote plugin for Chrome does. That would be awesome!

  • Metkja

    I use EN for codes and wishlists! Always available. Love EN!

  • Israel

    Just excelent! I use it everyday.

    Greetings from Monterrey, Mexico

  • Sarah Mitroff

    Ive reached a point that nothing I email to Evernote with the “@notebookname” in the subject actually goes to the correct notebook. I just tested it with an exact notebook name and it just goes straight to my “General” notebook, the first one that was there when I signed up for Evernote. What can I do? It used to work just fine.

    • jbignert

      Hi Sarah,
      This tip from one of the comments below might help your case:

      “I had some trouble forwarding emails to a specific notebook from Outlook; turns out you need to remove the ‘FW:’ (and maybe any other punctuation?) from the subject line and leave just text, then it sees the ‘@notebook’ and places it properly! Great feature, but would be better if this were not an issue.”

      Thx Steve-O

  • Bob

    I created notebooks for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Each time I get an agenda at work I forward it to the appropriate notebook and I have all of my meeting materials without having to print them and waste paper.

  • Malcolm

    There’s an even easier way to do this – or one that avoids all the typing and having to remember notebook names – at least when you’re at your desktop computer. Just bring up the contextual menu over your email message pane and choose Add To Evernote. Evernote will then create a note from the message, open it and let you choose which notebook to send it to from a drop-down menu. Done.

    This is how it works on a Mac, anyway. Right-click on the message pane (or double-finger-tap on the trackpad) and the contextual menu appears. Add To Evernote will be at the bottom somewhere, assuming the item is installed. I use the Postbox emailer, but presumably the same thing will happen in Mail or other emailers. I don’t know how it works in Windows.

  • Steve-O

    I had some trouble forwarding emails to a specific notebook from Outlook; turns out you need to remove the ‘FW:’ (and maybe any other punctuation?) from the subject line and leave just text, then it sees the ‘@notebook’ and places it properly! Great feature, but would be better if this were not an issue.

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