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This week on Ask Me Anything about Evernote we have a question emailed in from C.
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C asks
On the desktop app, is there a way to select notes from different notebooks and merge them into one?
Great question. It’s really easy to just multi-select notes in the same notebook and merge them but trickier if the notes are in different notebooks.
I think the best solution for this would be to tag the notes and then do the merge.
Find the notes you want to merge and individually tag them something like toMerge.
Then click on the tag to view all the notes, select them all and complete the merge.
I think this would be the easiest solution.
Another way would be to create a temporary notebook and move or duplicate the notes you want to merge into this notebook. You can then select them all and complete the merge.
I hope that helps.
If anyone have other solutions let me know in the comments.
Have a great rest of the week
All the best
Jon
Interesting little idea, Thanks, Jon. That's definitely going into the "Evernote Tips" notebook for future reference.
Tagging them "tomerge" and filtering for that tag is a great idea.
I usually work in "Notes list" mode sorted by date created (newest on top), so all the notes are there no matter what notebook. I Ctrl-Click each note that I want to merge and hit the merge icon.
You can choose the order of the notes in two ways, 1st is the order in which you Ctrl-click them, 2nd the merge panel allows you to change the position.
Another interesting thing... the new merged note will contain all the tags from the original notes but it will reside in the notebook of the first note.
Also note, a new merged note is created and all the original notes are now in the trash.