Forward email to Evernote as an attachment?

[Forever? 0]

Hello,

I wonder if anyone knows if it is possible to forward emails to Evernote and get the email as an attachment? Even if I send mail from Outlook as an attachment it will become text in a note.

The reason why this would be helpful is that it would then be possible to stay in Evernote with the tasks and not switch back to Outlook to reply to emails.

I absolutely love that emails become attachment when you drag and drop them to Evernote from outlook to a note and this is actually the main reason that I switched to Evernote from OneNote a couple of weeks ago. Thank you for that Evernote people! 

EDIT: I this I put this post in the wrong part of the forum but I cannot find how to delete it. Sorry!

[PinkElephant 8,104]

AFAIK the only way: Convert the mail into a pdf, share the pdf to EN.

Downside: Attachments to the mail will not be attached - you just see an icon which tells „There was an attachment“.

[RJLUK 307]

You can share emails to Evernote with Sparkmail either as the text of email and include attachment or ODF with attachment . Yet another reason why I have stuck with Evernote and  Sparkmail.

[Forever? 0]

On 5/20/2022 at 5:32 PM, PinkElephant said:

AFAIK the only way: Convert the mail into a pdf, share the pdf to EN.

Downside: Attachments to the mail will not be attached - you just see an icon which tells „There was an attachment“.

Ok, thank you! It's not a big deal, but thought I had missed some solution. An honor to get an answer from the pink elephant!  The thing is that I want to open the email directly from Evernote to be able to answer it and I don't think that's not possible this way.

On 5/20/2022 at 9:11 PM, RobertJLee said:

You can share emails to Evernote with Sparkmail either as the text of email and include attachment or ODF with attachment . Yet another reason why I have stuck with Evernote and  Sparkmail.

Ok, thank you. It's for work so I am stuck with outlook.

[PinkElephant 8,104]

Thanks, now I am double pinky for 5 minutes.

No, to answer emails directly from EN would mean that EN is an email server. Which of course it isn’t. It has the ability to send notes by mail, but mainly for sharing, and with very reduced capabilities.

It will not help you to avoid using a mail client. I am beyond Outlook, which in my humble opinion is just an overwhelming piece of *****. I use the Apple Mail client, that does what I need, without much ado. Only downside: Works on Macs and iOS only, plus in the web iCloud solution. Since I have switched to Apple products completely, this does not bother me.

[RJLUK 307]

1 hour ago, Forever? said:

Ok, thank you. It's for work so I am stuck with outlook.

Im guessing you maybe want to keep "copies" of certain "important' emails?.

BCC emails to EN /Set up a "rule" within outlook to BCC.

As @PinkElephant said EN is not a mail client. 

[Forever? 0]

On 5/21/2022 at 9:37 PM, PinkElephant said:

Thanks, now I am double pinky for 5 minutes.

No, to answer emails directly from EN would mean that EN is an email server. Which of course it isn’t. It has the ability to send notes by mail, but mainly for sharing, and with very reduced capabilities.

It will not help you to avoid using a mail client. I am beyond Outlook, which in my humble opinion is just an overwhelming piece of *****. I use the Apple Mail client, that does what I need, without much ado. Only downside: Works on Macs and iOS only, plus in the web iCloud solution. Since I have switched to Apple products completely, this does not bother me.

 

On 5/21/2022 at 10:57 PM, RobertJLee said:

Im guessing you maybe want to keep "copies" of certain "important' emails?.

BCC emails to EN /Set up a "rule" within outlook to BCC.

As @PinkElephant said EN is not a mail client. 

Yes, I think I might have explained the situation poorly, English is not my first language. What I meant was that it is possible to double click the attachment and respond to the email. It is still a copy of the message but as an attachment. 

This makes it possible to delete the email in Outlook or put it into a folder without having to search for the email in outlook to respond.

[agsteele 2,946]

No, you cannot do this in Evernote. Even if you export the whole .eml/.msg file from Outlook, double clicking would just reimport it into Outlook rather than initiate a reply.

[macfixer 705]

If you use Outlook, this add-in might do the trick for you:

https://evernote.com/blog/introducing-evernote-for-outlook/

[Forever? 0]

On 5/23/2022 at 11:23 AM, agsteele said:

No, you cannot do this in Evernote. Even if you export the whole .eml/.msg file from Outlook, double clicking would just reimport it into Outlook rather than initiate a reply.

Well, it works for me if I drag the email from outlook to the new version of Evernote. If i double click it it opens the email in Outlook. It seems to be a link rather than a file, because if I delete the email in Outlook it cannot be opened from Evernote anymore. The screenshot is how it works for me now!

As I said, I love this feature and it was one of the main reasons that I changed to Evernote.

 

16 hours ago, Kyle D. aka macfixer said:

If you use Outlook, this add-in might do the trick for you:

https://evernote.com/blog/introducing-evernote-for-outlook/

Thank you, this is useful and I do use it but it is still not saved as an attachment.

the current way everything is works great for me, I just wanted to see if there was a possible to send emails by mail rather than to drag them from Outlook, which would make it possible for automatic forwarding to skip outlook all together.

[agsteele 2,946]

Yes, dragging would create a link rather than importing the .eml/.msg  I didn't think of creating a link but it still doesn't allow you to answer from within Evernote and using Evernote as your Email repository as you described in your initial post not having to switch back to Outlook

[macfixer 705]

3 hours ago, Forever? said:

Thank you, this is useful and I do use it but it is still not saved as an attachment.

the current way everything is works great for me, I just wanted to see if there was a possible to send emails by mail rather than to drag them from Outlook, which would make it possible for automatic forwarding to skip outlook all together.

Ahh, gotcha.

There is a way to do it the way you're suggesting:

1. Locate the email you'd like to put into Evernote.
2. Right-click on the email and choose "Forward as Attachment" from the menu.
   • You can also choose "Forward as Attachment" from the Messages menu in the menu bar.
3. Enter your personal Evernote email address in the "To:" field (i.e. "forever1245@m.evernote.com")
   • Optional: Edit the subject field to strip any unwanted characters from the note title, add a folder, tag, etc.
4. Send the message.

Your note should then appear with an .eml attachment in Evernote: