Evernote Rename Attachment on Mac and Windows

When scanning documents to Evernote, some people just rename the title of the note and don’t worry about the name of the actual PDF attachment. Others want to have the PDF named as well.

If you want your Evernote attachment to have the correct name, you have two options:

Name the PDF correctly first and then add it to Evernote.
Scan the document to Evernote and then rename it.

This post will cover door #2.

Evernote Rename Attachment On Mac

You see that I have a PDF attached with the name 114A3486.pdf. Not very descriptive.

Evernote Rename Attachment Original Name

To rename it, I just need to right-click on the PDF and choose Rename Attachment…

Evernote Rename Attachment Mac

Now the PDF has the correct name.

Evernote Rename Attachment Windows

Evernote Rename Attachment On Windows

On Windows it is the same thing. Find the attachment, right-click on it, and choose Rename….

Evernote Rename Attachment Windows

How about you, are you an Evernote attachment renamer or do you just go by the note title?

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About the Author

Brooks Duncan helps individuals and small businesses go paperless. He's been an accountant, a software developer, a manager in a very large corporation, and has run DocumentSnap since 2008. You can find Brooks on Twitter at @documentsnap or @brooksduncan. Thanks for stopping by.

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Steven Buehler - August 19, 2015 Reply

What stinks about this is that prior to the latest version, one used to be able to rename attachments in existing notes via AppleScript; however, the latest iteration of Evernote has made filenames read-only to AppleScript. It came tremendously in handy for PDFs that are scanned and emailed into Evernote (so I could automatically change the file name from “scan.pdf” to something else more usable).

mike parico - August 5, 2015 Reply

I am a member of the group I have a question. I have a scansnap ix500 that i have been using for the past 2 years. It works ok and my wife needed a scanner so i am giving that to her. I have purchased but not yet installed the EN version of that model ix500.

When I install the EN scanner will there be a conflict with the files from the ix500 or am I overthinking this will it be ok or did I mess up by getting a different scanner I want to get deeper with EN your considered opion would be most welcome