(Archived) Drag and Drop Address Book Contact into Evernote

[danlandrum 4]

I could be missing something, but it doesn't seem possible to drag and drop a contact from Apple Address Book into an Evernote note. Using the copy/paste command only gives you the name field from the contact. I know I can export the contact as a vcard and then drag it into my note.

Could you please consider adding the feature of letting us just drag from Address Book into notes? It feels like it ought to work that way. This would be a big help when using Evernote for GTD.

Thanks for continuing to improve my favorite piece of software.

[Lougoose 0]

You seem to be right...I can't drag a contact into a note.

However, I can drag a contact into a notebook (or the Dock icon) to create a new note with the VCF attached. You can then merge notes (not ideal, but perhaps a good temporary solution?).

[danlandrum 4]

Well, whad'ya know. Interesting. Thanks, I hadn't tried that. I hope they'll consider having the info come in directly.

[zbeckman 0]

I really wish there was a better way to do this. What I really want is to see a visual representation of the card (the person's picture and info), NOT just a little vcard icon.

Right now, I actually use Skitch to grab the Address Book window and drop a JPG into Evernote. I get the visual representation, and Evernote is pretty good at text indexing the image... so, it works. But it's a pain in the arse, and obviously has to be manually updated.

[engberg 89]

You could also try Print and use the Print to Evernote option from the PDF drop-down menu.

[curious rabbit 0]

The Save PDF to Evernote option only gives me a printed envelope image. Email, telephone, even company name do not make it through the process.

[janetpolimer@mac.com 0]

I hope that eventually we can drag and drop, but the following works. (sort of) I opened my Address Book contact, saved a screen shot (command-shift-4), opened that, and did Print - Save PDF to Evernote. This worked OK, though the embedded url and email address are not live hyperlinks.