Comments on: Gmail To Evernote Information Management Workflow

By: Ruud

Ruud — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:12:05 +0000

The 3.5 Evernote has a built-in email service. Ergo, the email is sent via them. Maybe worth to check out. It works very nice. On the other hand, 3.5 does lack a lot of functionality from 3.1. Seems to Evernote’s strategy: to remove a bit of stuff on every release :)

By: VinnyC

VinnyC — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:13:55 +0000

Thanks for your last reply. I’ve been looking for the answer to this question for a year. I’m disappointed but satisfied. I still wish I could email Evernote from Gmail. Thanks.

By: Ruud

Ruud — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:12:21 +0000

John, even when you would use utilities that cause mailto links etc to open in Gmail by default, Evernote cannot use it to send its notes. The “conversation” between Evernote and the email program goes via MAPI; MAPI is the way other programs can talk with your email program and ask it to do “stuff”. Browsers don’t come with MAPI because, well, they’re browsers, not email programs.

My solution has been to install an email client that supports rich formatting and launches fast enough for me to not mind. In my case that’s Windows Live Mail (the desktop program, not the web service); the compose window launches in no-time.

Set your reply-to and that’s it

By: John

John — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:50:35 +0000

Great idea. Do you know of any way to email FROM evernote to gmail? I despise outlook, etc. but when I click on the “mail” button on evernote it wants to pull that. I use gmail for everything – I’m sure I’m overlooking something simple. Thanks – just found your blog and like it very much.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:44:55 +0000

Interesting idea. I love this out of the box thinking.

Instead of using Gmail to capture your notes, what about using blogger? (Send to > Blogger). I’ve been wanting to try out Evernote, but it doesn’t work too well through our corporate proxy so I decided to try blogger. So far, it works, plus I can use my own custom domain to host my notes (i.e. notes.ruudhein.com)

PS – I came across your site after doing a search for “Evernote gmail”

By: Frontware

Frontware — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:19:24 +0000

We use Gmail and Evernote at our company, but we never thought to use it that way. It seems very interresting. Thanks for the tip.

By: Ruud

Ruud — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:49:43 +0000

Hi Evangeline. Do you have Akismet enabled? It doesn’t stop everything and catches a few false positives every now and then but does help a lot.

By: Evangeline E. Dorr

Evangeline E. Dorr — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:33:33 +0000

Hi nice post, i read your blog from time to time but i was wondering something. I also run a blog on a similar topic, but i get 1,000’s of spam comments and emails every day does that happen to you.. Any ideas to stop it? I currently have commenting disabled but i want to turn it back on.. Thanks!

By: Ruud

Ruud — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:22:47 +0000

What a great idea, Stefan. I haven’t tried the tool (no real need for it myself) but really like your thinking. Very practical.

Great set of other tools there as well. grepWin is very useful for example.

Thanks for the comment and the heads-up on your tools!

By: Stefan

Stefan — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 08:37:19 +0000

I’ve written a small tool to capture selected content from applications (including browsers) and automatically create a new email from that content.
This helps me a lot with gathering notes and sending them to my gmail account.

Might be useful for others too, so here’s the link:
http://tools.tortoisesvn.net/MailNoter
(sourcecode is available too).

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