Category Archives: Evernote

New version of Gmail to Evernote now in spreadsheet

A new version of the Gmail to Evernote script has been released. It is now embedded in a spreadsheet, so you have all the relevant information together and can easily view it. Moreover, you have your own copy of the script now: much more secure, but it is not to update automatically anymore. Therefore, current users are advised to install the latest version and use this instead of the old version. The old version may stop working in the course of the next week (end of April 2019).

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Gmail to Evernote messages now in Sent mail

The Gmail to Evernote script works by sending a message to your Evernote email address. It does so using Google Apps Script. Until recently, a message sent by Google Apps Script would not appear in your Sent mail; in many cases, this would be considered an omission, and it has been fixed now: the messages will show in your Sent mail.

For messages sent to Evernote, keeping a copy in your Sent mail is less relevant; several people, including myself, considered it a benefit that these message were not cluttering your Sent mail. I will therefore look into the options for not getting receiving a copy of the mail to Evernote in your Sent mail, perhaps as an option that you can switch on or off. No immediate solutions have come to my mind yet, but if I get some, it will be implemented in the next version.

Meanwhile, any bright ideas are welcome!

Update: the bright idea is to create a filter in Gmail, specify your Evernote address in the To field of the search criteria, and select Delete it as action (submitted by Nathan Stretch, comment below).

New version of Gmail to Evernote script

Version 3 of the Gmail to Evernote script has been released. Existing users will have to authenticate and give access again, to keep  the script running. You can do so easily by going to  gm2en.com.

This is the new web interface, that is one of the major changes in the new version. All options can now be configured from this form.

Other changes are:

  • more flexibility in selecting labels: you can now specify a different label than ‘Evernote’, to select the messages to be forwarded. Also, you can select a tag label, and only this label and its sublabels will be included as tags to be sent  with the message to Evernote, other labels will be ignored. Finally, you can specify a label to be assigned if a message is sent to Evernote.
  • better catching of errors. it may happen, that a server is not reachable. Before, you would receive a notification of script failures, but these are caught now and you will not receive a notification anymore, After all, you can not do anything about it, so it does not make sense to send these messages. Other problems, such as the requirement for re-authentication, will still be sent. 

.All options are documented in the original Gmail to Evernote post, which has been updated.

Address unavailable: http://gs.harryonline.net/gm2en.json ?

Users of the Gmail to Evernote script may have received a “Summary of failures” message today reporting the following error:
Address unavailable: http://gs.harryonline.net/gm2en.json (line 180, file "Code")
The server, from which this file is read, has been down for a number of hours yesterday, so you got these error messages.

Why is the script reading this file, it is only supposed to forward messages from  your Gmail account to Evernote? It has to do with version information, to be able to inform you about new versions.
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Send Gmail to Evernote: an overview of the tools

Updated 28 June 2013: both Evernote Web Clipper and Powerbot have new versions, the table refers to these new versions.

In the creation and development of the Google Apps script to send Gmail messages to Evernote, I have looked around what other tools are available. These are the other tools that I found:

  • forwarding to the Evernote email address and using the InQloud service;
  • the Evernote Web Clipper (only tested on Windows/Chrome);
  • PowerBot, an extension for Chrome (also others versions available, e.g., for Firefox and Safari)
  • IFTTT and Zapier, tools that enable you to connect between other web services

I have looked at how well these tools keep the formatting of the message, whether they keep attachments, have a link back to the message in Gmail, whether they can be automated using Gmail filters, and whether you can select the notebook or tags, and edit/comment on the message before sending.

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New version of Gmail to Evernote script creates link to Gmail in Evernote

Version 2 of the Gmail to Evernote script has been released. The new version adds text on top of the message in Evernote, with the basic headers from the email message (From, To, Date) and a link back to view the message in Gmail. For example, if you forwarded the message to a task list in Evernote, you can now quickly send a response after completing the task. No more searching in Gmail to find the message back!

There are more changes, and you have to do some extra configuration steps if you use multiple sign-in for Google, because in that case, the link to the Gmail message is not always correct.

This version will send email notifications when a new version is available. If you are running the script directly from bit.ly/gmailevernote, you don’t need to update, and you will not receive a notification, unless some other action is required or relevant information can be given.

If you made your own copy of the script, you will always receive a notification of new versions, so you can replace your copy with the new version.

You may have to authorize and grant access again, see the previous update on Gmail to Evernote.

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Send Google Mail to Evernote

Evernote is a great system to organize your notes, and to remember everything. You often want to add email message to Evernote, for example to add it to a To-do list. Evernote makes this possible by providing an email address, to which you can forward other messages–they will then be added to your other notes. But you still have to tag them, and you may want to put them in a different notebook. This can also be done by appending notebook and tags to the subject line, but this takes time and you can easily make a typing mistaken.

The method described here makes it much faster and easier: simply drag tags and notebook to the message, that’s it. It is shown in this video, and you can click through to read how to make it work for you. The video is short, less than 40 seconds, but it should not take more time to forward the message and see the result.

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