Tap the plus, then tap “Visit Action Directory.”īrowse the existing actions and, if you find one that seems useful, just tap “Install” on the action page. From within Drafts, tap the action icon at the top right of the screen to reveal your current action list. Because Drafts actions can be created and customized by its users, the community have created several Evernote actions for Drafts that are available in the Drafts Action Directory.įinding and installing these actions is quite simple. The three actions that ship with Drafts are just the beginning. Installing Evernote Actions from the Actions Directory We’ll get into how this works in a later section. Notice that, with this action, the first line of the draft is used as the title of the Evernote note and each subsequent line is added as a todo. This draft, after running “Evernote as Todos,” will look like this in Evernote: Notes in Evernote can contain simple checkboxes, which Evernote calls “todos.” This action will take the current draft and create a new note in Evernote with each line representing a separate todo: If it does exist, the contents of the draft will be added to the end of the note, prepended with the current date: Evernote as Todos If this note doesn’t exist, it will be automatically created. Running this action will add the current draft to a note in your Evernote account whose title is “Journal-YYYY-MM” (where YYYY is the current year and MM is the numeric representation of the current month something like “Journal–2015–01”). These behaviors can be configured differently if you choose (we’ll get to how that’s done in a bit). This action won’t include any formatting or anything the contents of the new Evernote note will the text exactly as it appears in Drafts.īy default, the new note will appear in the default notebook in your Evernote account and the note title will be the date and time the draft was sent to Evernote. This one works just like it sounds: whatever is in the current Draft is added as a new note in your Evernote account. In this section, we’ll briefly discuss what each one does. A Tour of Drafts’ Built-in Evernote Actionsĭrafts ships with three built-in actions for saving content to your Evernote account. Tapping this button revokes Drafts’ ability to access your Evernote account. If you reopen the Settings screen, the Evernote button that read “Link” before will now read “Unlink”. It’s important to note that, in either case, Drafts never sees your Evernote login credentials.Īfter you’ve given Drafts access to your account, you’ll be taken back to Drafts. Once you log in, you’ll see the same prompt to allow Drafts to access your account. If you don’t have the Evernote app installed, Drafts will open a web page on Evernote’s web site prompting you to login to Evernote.
This screen will describe exactly which abilities Drafts will have: If you have the Evernote app installed on your device-and you’re currently logged in to Evernote in the app-the Evernote app will launch and you’ll be prompted to authorize Drafts to access your Evernote account. Tap the “Link” button next to Evernote.Tap “Configure accounts” on the Settings screen.Launch Drafts and tap the Settings (gear) icon at the bottom right of the screen.Connecting your Evernote account is simple, especially if you have the Evernote app installed on your device:
Connecting Drafts to your Evernote Accountīefore you can do any of this, you’ll need to allow Drafts to access your Evernote account. To begin using Drafts with Evernote, you’ll first need to give Drafts permission to access your Evernote account. Get more great tips on Brett's site.ĭrafts has several built-in actions that can easily send text to your Evernote account. When you're done with this article, be sure to read part 2, Using Drafts with Evernote: Advanced, to learn about creating custom Evernote actions and using Drafts' tags.
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This is part 1 of a two part series on integrating Drafts with Evernote, written by Brett Kelly, author of Evernote Essentials.
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