Evernote is making it a little easier to stay in your flow: you can now play YouTube videos directly inside your notes, without ever leaving the app. Paste a YouTube link, and Evernote turns it into a rich inline preview that you can resize between small, large, or full‑width, depending on how prominent you want the video to appear in your note. You then get familiar playback controls—play, pause, skip, volume—right inside Evernote, similar to watching on YouTube itself.

This isn’t just about convenience; it’s about how you organize information. With inline video, you can keep reference videos, tutorials, lectures, or product demos exactly where you keep your written notes, checklists, and attachments. That makes Evernote more useful for things like study notes, project documentation, meeting recaps with linked walkthroughs, or content research, where you’re constantly bouncing between a video and your own thoughts.

Evernote also gives you control over how these links look across your account. In Settings → Preferences → Notes → Links and attachments, you can set your default link view, choosing how links and previews appear by default and then tweaking them case‑by‑case when needed. This same settings area now ties into Evernote’s broader push around links and navigation, including improvements like richer previews for other web pages and note links, and a new floating table of contents that helps you jump around long notes more quickly.

For long‑time users, inline YouTube previews may feel like an evolution of Evernote’s existing rich link behavior—where pasting a YouTube URL already generated a visual preview that could be resized or switched back to a simpler title‑only link. The latest update refines that experience, connects it more clearly to the link display settings, and positions video as a first‑class citizen in your notes rather than just another attachment.

The end result: if you use Evernote to learn from YouTube, collect how‑to videos, or track talks and webinars, you can now keep the video, the transcript (if you use separate tools for that), and your own thoughts together in one place—without constantly tab‑switching between Evernote and your browser.

🎬 Play YouTube videos inside your notes.

You can now turn YouTube links into small, large, or full-width previews, and play them inline.

⚙️ Manage your link view preferences in Settings → Preferences → Notes → Links and attachments. pic.twitter.com/LQUzWJUn8F

— Evernote (@evernote) April 9, 2026