Failed to create a create note in Evernote: Content of submitted note was malformed.

HI @pjb2615! 

The reason that the Evernote New Note action doesnt work when you use the html body is that Evernote has its own unique ‘markup’ (formatting) language. That means it doesn’t use HTML or standard markup. You can learn more about that in Evernote’s article: Understanding the Evernote Markup Language.

Although you can generally use HTML in the Create note action (as it says in the help text), there are certain elements (tags) that Evernote doesn’t like. Do you know if only certain emails cause the “Content of submitted note was malformed” or is it all of them? I’m wondering if we can identify the specific piece of html formatting that Evernote doesn’t like. 

In terms of the attachments. If there’s more than one attachment on the email, Gmail will send them as a Zip file containing all of them, which may be why they’re not being attached to the note. 

If you’d like to add an attachment from a Gmail to the note, you’ll need to use the Gmail New Attachment trigger. That triggers for each attachment on the email, so if you only want certain types of attachments to be added to the note, you’ll need to add a filter step to the Zap so it only adds relevant attachments. In addition, you’ll want to delay the step, so it waits or the note to be created before updating it with the attachments. So, the Zap will look a bit like this:

1. Gmail - New attachment
2. Filter - (eg only continue if the attachment is a pdf)
3. Delay by Zapier - delay for 15 minutes
4. Evernote -  Find note (find the note that was created from the email)
5. Evernote - Update note (use the note ID from the from note step to tell Zapier which note to add the attachment to)

That’s quite. a lot of information, so please let us know if you have any questions!