Now You Have to Pay to Email to Evernote, But Here’s a Workaround (EverMail)

Evermail

One of Evernote‘s best features is being able to email notes directly into Evernote. They give you an email address, and if you get an email that you want to file away for reference, you can send it right to Evernote. (You can even, if you word your subject line correctly, tag it and put it in a specific notebook.)

However, Evernote recently announced that you’d have to sign up for one of their paid plans if you wanted to keep your heretofore free email address. It’s not a huge sum, but I don’t plan to upgrade–I just don’t need the larger upload storage space at this point, which also comes with the paid upgrade.

Enter EverMail.

The Mac Mail plug-in from ChungwaSoft was available long before Evernote changed their pricing structure, and I used it regularly then. Now it’s an essential part of my workflow.

Here’s how it works.

 

1. I get an email, the contents of which I want to file in Evernote.

 

An email about the Septuagint. What could be better?
An email about the Septuagint. What could be better?

 

Look again at the image above–at the top right you’ll see the Evernote elephant icon. That’s because I have EverMail installed in my Mac Mail app.

 

2. I click the EverMail icon, which gives me three options.

 

2_Create a Note

 

3a. I choose “Create quick note,” which I can select with mouse/trackpad or via keyboard shortcut.

 

4_Quick Save

 

I can quickly save my email to any notebook. The shot above doesn’t show it, but I now have it set up to default to my “Inbox” notebook in Evernote.

 

3b. I select “Create note” to further customize my email/note before sending to Evernote.

 

3_Edit Note

 

From here I can not only select the desired Notebook and tags, I can set a reminder, adjust the Note title, add my own notes to the link I’m saving, and even include email attachments so they save to Evernote, too.

This is actually even an improvement on emailing to Evernote, because now I don’t have to remember the right subject line syntax for adding tags and sending to a proper Notebook. I can do everything from within Mac Mail and not even have to open Evernote.

Once you install EverMail, you’ll see it in your Mail toolbar:

 

Mail Menu Bar

 

And here are the settings–EverMail puts itself right into your Mac Mail Preferences:

 

Settings

 

I mentioned free earlier. EverMail is not free, but at $13.95, you’ve got yourself a permanent email-to-Evernote solution that you don’t have to keep paying for each month.

Setup and use have both been exceedingly easy. I’m a big fan of the app. Check it out here.

 


 

Thanks to the good people of ChungwaSoft for giving me a download of EverMail for review purposes.

4 thoughts on “Now You Have to Pay to Email to Evernote, But Here’s a Workaround (EverMail)

  1. Feingeist stops with the paid ! Evermail mail plugin.It will be compatible with macOS Sierra. They offer MailButler professional a plan for € 7.95 a month. It has a lot of extra features but i don’t use them… The free plan will let you do 30 professional actions (so save 30 mails in EN) a month but thats far to less in my situation. I hope there will be a software developer who makes a new version of Evermail !

    1. Thanks for the comment–yes, Evermail was great! I don’t know if you’re an iOS user, but there are some nice email-to-Evernote options on Airmail (which also has a Mac app), as well as Dispatch and (I think) some others.

      1. Thanks Abram, i am a OSX user. I will look into dispatch ! See i typed something wrong in my earlier comment. Evermail won’t be supported with OS Sierra.

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