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This discussion brought back memories. I first subscribed to Evernote, back in 2007 or 2008. At the time, Notebooks were NOT supported and we had to organize our Notes using Tags. This drove me crazy and I had written many complaints to Evernote about the lack of support for Notebooks or some kind of a folder structure. I was told that would require a major upgrade to Evernote’s structure and that it wasn’t planned. I almost stopped using Evernote because the feedback I got wasn’t encouraging about them adding a Notebooks feature. I was pleasantly surprised a few (couple?) years later when the Notebooks feature was added without prior notice, as I recall. Since I had been forced to use tags, I continue using them today, though I really don’t need to as I prefer organizing my Notes into folders (and now Spaces as well).
I am a heavy tag user as I use Evernote for two purposes - knowledge management and GTD. The number of tags is a few dozen with a top level hierarchy of:
• Action
• Business
• Finance
• Personal
• Priority
• When
• Who
On the other hand, I have only a few notebooks - five to be exact that represent a note’s status in its lifecycle:
• Inbox
• Action Pending
• Completed
• Not Going To Be Completed
• The Cabinet
I accomplish all the searching I need with this setup.
The one feature I’d like to see with tags is being able to tag individual tasks in a single note. My workaround is do-able but still clunky compared to having each task in a single note having their own tags.
I would like EN to update the sorting order for tags. In Evernote, "10blabla" comes before "1blabla" because the default sorting is alphabetical and not numerical, which treats numbers as characters rather than quantities. In this type of sort, "1" is compared character-by-character, and "10" is treated as two characters while "1" is a single character. It would be very helpful if sorting would be more smart than it currently is (and without the need to work with leading zeros). I believe this used be the case as well (long time ago) and this applies not only to tags actually.
This discussion brought back memories. I first subscribed to Evernote, back in 2007 or 2008. At the time, Notebooks were NOT supported and we had to organize our Notes using Tags. This drove me crazy and I had written many complaints to Evernote about the lack of support for Notebooks or some kind of a folder structure. I was told that would require a major upgrade to Evernote’s structure and that it wasn’t planned. I almost stopped using Evernote because the feedback I got wasn’t encouraging about them adding a Notebooks feature. I was pleasantly surprised a few (couple?) years later when the Notebooks feature was added without prior notice, as I recall. Since I had been forced to use tags, I continue using them today, though I really don’t need to as I prefer organizing my Notes into folders (and now Spaces as well).
I am a heavy tag user as I use Evernote for two purposes - knowledge management and GTD. The number of tags is a few dozen with a top level hierarchy of:
• Action
• Business
• Finance
• Personal
• Priority
• When
• Who
On the other hand, I have only a few notebooks - five to be exact that represent a note’s status in its lifecycle:
• Inbox
• Action Pending
• Completed
• Not Going To Be Completed
• The Cabinet
I accomplish all the searching I need with this setup.
The one feature I’d like to see with tags is being able to tag individual tasks in a single note. My workaround is do-able but still clunky compared to having each task in a single note having their own tags.
I like the improvements mentioned!
I would like EN to update the sorting order for tags. In Evernote, "10blabla" comes before "1blabla" because the default sorting is alphabetical and not numerical, which treats numbers as characters rather than quantities. In this type of sort, "1" is compared character-by-character, and "10" is treated as two characters while "1" is a single character. It would be very helpful if sorting would be more smart than it currently is (and without the need to work with leading zeros). I believe this used be the case as well (long time ago) and this applies not only to tags actually.