(Archived) New to evernote... need to copy or drag/drop an email into a note... how?

[jdooms 0]

As the title reads, I'm new to Evernote. I've used One Note back in the day when I was a PC user. It was very simple when I was keeping notes on a subject or account that I could just drag and drop an email into the note. For the life of me, I can not find where or how to do this. I think it's a pretty simple task, just drag and drop the email into the appropriate note. When you try to do it, you can see where you are carrying the note or notes, but when you drop it, it acts as if it went into the note, but when you go look... nada!

Is this possible and if so, how? If not, why not? I'd like to know before I go to the premium level of this application. Other than being able to put a time stamp in certain places, this works really well. So, if I'm wrong on the time stamp thing, let me know how to do that too. Thanks in advance.

[JMichaelTX 4,118]

This is not currently possible in EN Mac when using Outlook 2011. I'm not sure about the Mac Mail app -- it may work from there.

IAC, you can just forward the email to your EN mail-to address. You will need to Sync EN Mac to see it.

I have setup an Outlook Contact for this purpose, and it works well.

The email Subject becomes the Note Title.

When you forward the email, you can:

1. Specify NB by putting @<NotebookName> in the Subject
   
2. Specify one or more Tags by putting #<tagName> in the Subject
   
3. Reformat and/or Edit the content before you Send.
   
   • For example, I often change the email body to my EN default font/size to improve readability
     

See the EN Knowledge Base for more details on forwarding.

HTH.

[jdooms 0]

This is not currently possible in EN Mac when using Outlook 2011. I'm not sure about the Mac Mail app -- it may work from there.

IAC, you can just forward the email to your EN mail-to address. You will need to Sync EN Mac to see it.

I have setup an Outlook Contact for this purpose, and it works well.

The email Subject becomes the Note Title.

When you forward the email, you can:

1. Specify NB by putting @<NotebookName> in the Subject
   
2. Specify one or more Tags by putting #<tagName> in the Subject
   
3. Reformat and/or Edit the content before you Send.
   
   • For example, I often change the email body to my EN default font/size to improve readability
     

See the EN Knowledge Base for more details on forwarding.

HTH.

Thanks for the info. I'll give that a try. It sure seems like that's a lot of trouble when all we should have to do is drag/drop an email into the appropriate note. Too bad there is no One Note available for Mac. I have parallels installed, but I just didn't want to have to go through installing it that way. Thanks again for the help. I'm going to give it a try and see how this works.

[anjoschu 67]

When I try this in Mac OS Lion and drag notes from Lion's Mail application into the current Evernote 3.0.5 (premium), it works. I can drag single email objects on the Evernote Dock icon to create a new note, and I can drag single mail objects into an open note.

Be aware that this attaches the emails to the Note as ".eml" attachments. As far as I know, this type of attachment can ONLY be opened on Mac OS X Lion!

That's why I second JMichael's suggestion: The currently best solution is indeed to forward the emails to your Evernote account.

As for inserting a timestamp: AFAIK that's not a feature currently -- I'm sure someone can come up with an AppleScript-powered shortcut, but I'm not sure whether it's worth the while.

[JMichaelTX 4,118]

For auto date/time stamp: