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May 9 2008

Transport email from your Inbox to Evernote in a keystoke

Evernote is an online service that promises to allow you to capture information in any environment, on any device, on any platform and make that info searchable at anytime, from anywhere. (The service is currently in invitation-only beta)

One of the ways you can get information to Evernote is to email it. This means you can also use it to process incoming email by selecting messages you want to capture and sending them to Evernote.

It would be nice if there was a simple key command that would use Mail.app’s redirect to send emails from your Inbox to Evernote and then delete them from Mail. It would be nice and there is a simple way to do it.

Enter Mail Act-On.

Mail Act-On is a donationware Mail.app add-on that allows you to create rules and have key commands associated with them. It’s great for quickly organizing emails into mailboxes and adding email addys to Address Book. Now you can also set up a rule to redirect emails to your secret Evernote email address and then automatically dump the emails in Mail’s trash can once the transfer is made.

Here’s the rule I created. Setting up this rule in accordance with Mail Act-On’s modus operandi (read the documentation that comes with it to learn the proper placement of the rule in your list) will result in the ability to hit Ctrl-E and have the selected email sent away to “Evernoteland” before being dumped in Mail’s trash.

Once the message arrives in your Evernote notebook, you can organize it with all the camera phone pictures, screenshots and web bookmarks you have collected.

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