How You Can Add Stuff to Evernote

The big part of productivity is to collect different types of information that will be used when needed.

One of the best productivity tools that I use and find as a valuable tool is Evernote. I use it for a different purpose as one of my productivity tools. One of them is to collect information that I think will be valuable for me from everywhere and then process that information. In such a way using the GTD productivity system I become much more organized.

One of the biggest features that make this tool such a powerful productivity tool is easy ways to add stuff to it.

The primary things that I add in Evernote can be divided into the following:

  • Text notes,
  • Audio notes,
  • Images,
  • Content from web pages and
  • PDF documents.

#1 Drag and Drop Files on Desktop Computers

For each file that you want to add to the notebooks, you can simply drag and drop them in the proper note where you want it to appear.

#2 Copy and Paste

The second way to add stuff to this tool is by copying things to the clipboard using CTRL+C for Windows or CMD+C for Mac. After you copy something you can use a paste to put it into the notes.

#3 Save PDF to Evernote

This option is useful for making PDF files and saving them directly to the notebooks. This functionality work with each application that has print options. If you simply click on File – Print and then choose Save PDF as Evernote from the PDF menu in the bottom left corner.

Save PDF Evernote

#4 Web Clipper Extension

Because we spend more and more of our time on the internet where we search, publish and read different information, we need something that will quickly and easily send different Internet-based information into the notebooks in this tool.

web clipping evernote

With the installation of a web clipper extension for Evernote, you can easily add things from your web browser directly into the notebooks for future use.

#5 Email to Evernote

Another useful way to send notes to Evernote is by sending an email to your account. Each account has a special unique email address that you can use to send notes from everywhere and any email client.

#6 Mobile App

Evernote has native applications for smartphones with which you can easily create new text, voice, and snapshot notes.

#7 Skitch

One of the last functionality that comes from Skitch, desktop, and tablet applications for creating screenshots is sending them into the notebooks. Now, you can easily create a screenshot on your desktop or table, add Annotation, shapes, and sketches, so that your ideas become complete, and send it to your Evernote account in the form of notes with photos.

#8 Auto-Import

You can set up a folder that every time you put a document or file into that folder it will be sent to this tool. This is a more technical way, but more information about creating an auto-import folder using “Folder Action Script” you can be read here.

#9 If This Than That

ifttt evernote

This is another useful tool when it comes to sending notes to Evernote. The service can automate more options to send information into the tool.