How to connect Google Reader and Evernote

by Dan Perlman on June 29, 2009

in How To, Productivity, evernote

Google Reader, Google’s free online RSS reader is how I keep up with hundreds of websites and Evernote, my “ubiquitous capture” has become the repository of everything I want to do, read and have done.

I use them both every day, but I’ve never been happy about how I get articles I want to save from Google Reader into Evernote.  My solutions have been either pulling up the actual web page from Google reader and then clipping either text or the entire article from the page or trying to highlight text within the reader and clipping it directly to Evernote, both seemed awkward.

The answer is simple.  While in Google Reader you can send articles via email and every Evernote account has it’s own email address that allows Evernote to capture emails that you wish to keep. So I’ve  started happily reading article in Google Reader and then emailing them to my Evernote account. Very simple and very cool.  The command for emailing from Google Reader is letter “e”.

Me? Kind of slow, but eventually I figured it out.

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Your Evernote email address found on Settings Tab of Evernote website

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Entering “E” while reading articles in Google Reader opens an email form, just enter your Evernote email address and send.

Oh, yeah and if the term “Ubiquitous Capture “  sounds overly pompous, it’s from David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology for the place where you can trust that you can put everything important that needs to get done — it can be a notebook.

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  • Good idea thanks for the tip
  • adennis
    Hi Dan,

    Just thought I'd share a little trick my hubby taught me. If you use Safari there's an Evernote icon on the toolbar. When you find a page you want to save in Evernote, you just click on the icon and it adds it to your acct. Or you can right click on the info or link or page you want and it will add it that way too. Just thought I'd throw it out there in case you didn't already know. Cheers!
  • Thanks for that idea. If you're using a Mac and Safari, you can also send pages to Evernote as PDFs with a cntl+click, maintaining the same "look" they had online and still searchable.
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