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I have seen my naming conventions for notes evolve over the years and I always wanted a link with the file folders of my computers. When I discovered the PARA approach of Tiago Forte I learned that I was already doing most of it, but with a little twist for my own purposes. So I use a list of 4 letter acronyms which relate to areas of responsibilities and interests. There are roughly 15 of these and they cover most of my life. Any note, notebook, or file folder always start with that. I double that with using the same acronym in a single tag, which help with search and exporting. So i.e. HEAL concerns anything health related, HOME is about the house, what’s in and around it, FOOD are recipes, diets, etc. You get the idea. Next I indicate if it’s a Project with short term goal associated, then a description of the contents and I conclude with a status item – adding year means the project is finished and archived, OH means on hold, anything else means it’s ongoing. This gives examples like: MONY Tax 2023, HEAL Dentist, TECH Buy iphone OH, HOME Dishwasher Brand Modelname, etc.
i’ve been asking Evernote for years to replace the very unwieldy “intitle:” with a single-character command. For example, *invoice instead of intitle:invoice
I’ll chalk it up to dumb things I learned writing C but it works pretty well in lots of places. Interesting layer comes when people pick up on it and start making all the folders ALL CAPS thus defeating the purpose.
I have seen my naming conventions for notes evolve over the years and I always wanted a link with the file folders of my computers. When I discovered the PARA approach of Tiago Forte I learned that I was already doing most of it, but with a little twist for my own purposes. So I use a list of 4 letter acronyms which relate to areas of responsibilities and interests. There are roughly 15 of these and they cover most of my life. Any note, notebook, or file folder always start with that. I double that with using the same acronym in a single tag, which help with search and exporting. So i.e. HEAL concerns anything health related, HOME is about the house, what’s in and around it, FOOD are recipes, diets, etc. You get the idea. Next I indicate if it’s a Project with short term goal associated, then a description of the contents and I conclude with a status item – adding year means the project is finished and archived, OH means on hold, anything else means it’s ongoing. This gives examples like: MONY Tax 2023, HEAL Dentist, TECH Buy iphone OH, HOME Dishwasher Brand Modelname, etc.
Thanks. I like that, pretty simple and 15 is not too many to remember. Also like the idea you tag as well.
i’ve been asking Evernote for years to replace the very unwieldy “intitle:” with a single-character command. For example, *invoice instead of intitle:invoice
I like that idea.
The only real convention I use is to include emojis to indicate things like importance. However there is a quirk in the EN search syntax because
intitle:🔴 doesn't work
but
intitle:🔴 🔴 works as expected (There is no 🔴 in the body of the note)
I like how you use emoji's for importance. I saw one of your posts on the official forum about it and started using a few. It helps.
I have never been successful with any naming conventions save two:
1. Notes tied to things like meetings or events start with sortable dates.
2. Notebooks that are big, structural or important and should not be moved or renamed get ALL CAPS names.
Thanks. I like the idea of all caps to signify importance.
I’ll chalk it up to dumb things I learned writing C but it works pretty well in lots of places. Interesting layer comes when people pick up on it and start making all the folders ALL CAPS thus defeating the purpose.