(Archived) Feature Request - Print directly into Evernote

[grberk 26]

This has been requested in the past, and I may have asked about it a time or two. The thread seems to die down after a bit, so I am asking again....

 

Will Evernote ever have the capability to print a document straight into the app? Like Microsoft's OneNote printer does now? If I choose to print to Evernote, it would be great for a window to pop up and ask what notebook I want to save the note in, along with a prompt to name the note and add any tags, and then when I click print, it creates a PDF or some other HTML/web-formatted file and then save it into my chosen notebook with the tags and title on it.

 

Can't this be done with the app? I know this can be done somewhat halfway with a basic PDF printer and an Evernote import folder, but I am looking for all of the functionality of the web clipper, but for locally clipped files or documents - not from the web. Sometimes, I don't want to attach a file. I want to have the contents of the file as the note itself.

[GrumpyMonkey 4,316]

This has been requested in the past, and I may have asked about it a time or two. The thread seems to die down after a bit, so I am asking again....

 

Will Evernote ever have the capability to print a document straight into the app? Like Microsoft's OneNote printer does now? If I choose to print to Evernote, it would be great for a window to pop up and ask what notebook I want to save the note in, along with a prompt to name the note and add any tags, and then when I click print, it creates a PDF or some other HTML/web-formatted file and then save it into my chosen notebook with the tags and title on it.

 

Can't this be done with the app? I know this can be done somewhat halfway with a basic PDF printer and an Evernote import folder, but I am looking for all of the functionality of the web clipper, but for locally clipped files or documents - not from the web. Sometimes, I don't want to attach a file. I want to have the contents of the file as the note itself.

Hi. Doesn't this already exist? "Print" from the web to PDF and you can have that go directly into Evernote (on the direct download version of the Mac). "Print" from a file (like Word on the Mac) and you get the PDF button (just like for the web) -- click on that and you can print directly into your Evernote account.

As for an "attachment," anything that is not text is an "attachment" in Evernote, so Evernote will create a new note for that file, and the file will be the only thing in the note, but you will still need it to be an "attachment."

[grberk 26]

No, I think you are missing my point. I don't want to create a PDF just so I can attach it to a note. For items that I don't want to print as a PDF.... I want the contents of what I would be printing to be the actual note - just like what happens if I print to OneNote... the contents of the printout become the note, not just attached as a file. Printing to PDF works fine if you are using Office 2010/2013, or if you have a PDF printer. But I want to send the content of the document to be printed to the note as the note itself. I want to read what I would have printed in the body of the note. Not as an attachment. I don't know what crazy magic Microsoft does when it creates a note in OneNote from a printed document, but it goes to the new Note as the actual content of the note - not as an attached file. This is something that would be great to have whether I am working from the web or from a local document or file. Like I said, think of how the web clipper works... it takes the formatting of a web page and copies it to an HTML-formatted note that gets save into Evernote (hopefully with formatting, content and graphics in place). I want that from a local file or document - and made into a new note, not just the document attached to the note.

[GrumpyMonkey 4,316]

No, I think you are missing my point. I don't want to create a PDF just so I can attach it to a note. For items that I don't want to print as a PDF.... I want the contents of what I would be printing to be the actual note - just like what happens if I print to OneNote... the contents of the printout become the note, not just attached as a file. Printing to PDF works fine if you are using Office 2010/2013, or if you have a PDF printer. But I want to send the content of the document to be printed to the note as the note itself. I want to read what I would have printed in the body of the note. Not as an attachment. I don't know what crazy magic Microsoft does when it creates a note in OneNote from a printed document, but it goes to the new Note as the actual content of the note - not as an attached file. This is something that would be great to have whether I am working from the web or from a local document or file. Like I said, think of how the web clipper works... it takes the formatting of a web page and copies it to an HTML-formatted note that gets save into Evernote (hopefully with formatting, content and graphics in place). I want that from a local file or document - and made into a new note, not just the document attached to the note.

Oh. I think I see what you are saying now, but I am unclear on the details.

The Web Clipper takes html on the web and modifies it for html in Evernote, so I imagine the process (in some cases) is pretty straightforward. It probably gets a lot more difficult as the complexity of a page increases, but Evernote and the web page are still speaking the same language. My guess is that Word (and any other proprietary formats) would be a lot more difficult to translate.

In OneNote, as I understand it, the file cannot be edited and it is essentially an embedded attachment, right? I think Microsoft can get away with this because OneNote only exists (with this function) on one operating system, and in this case, Microsoft installs a special printer driver that prints the file as an image (I believe it may somehow incorporate the text into it for copy/paste). The resulting image is, for all intents and purposes, functioning just like a PDF, so I don't see the benefit of having this over printing to Evernote as I described.

However, it has been a while since I have used OneNote. If I have gotten any of this wrong, please do correct me.