So if I'm going to see the organizational system as tags anyway, I want all the capabilities of tags, including the ability to have multiple tags per item.Īnd if I do want a hand-selected group of records to sit in a notebook for a while, maybe because there's no obvious search, all I have to do is drag them there. I want to be able to get at them as records.As far as I'm concerned, a notebook IS a tag, just one with special display capabilities. I strongly suspect that this is a mental model thing. I was just about to abandon the Evernote experience before this. Tonight, after reading the linked-to Hyatt article, I promptly created a MegaNotebook and an Inbox notebook, moved everything to Mega, tagged everything with a new set of tags, and.ahhh. With only a few dozen items, using notebooks was already feeling too opaque. I'm just starting out with seeing whether Evernote would be useful to me (mostly as my filing system). I'm on the other side of this issue, so far. Maybe I should create a tag for each of my projects instead of a note? Or a notebook (though I hate to think how many notebooks that would give me)? I guess I'm wondering if I am using my tags and notebooks and notes in the best way. If I create a separate note for each action, how does that relate to my separate project note? I basically like this, but as my projects accumulate, what do I do for the actionable steps associated with that project? If I add the action item to a list on the project note, I would have to go through each project to see what my next action is.

Currently I use these folders:Īnd various other tags related to the general idea of the note

I am wondering if there is a better way to manage my projects in Evernote.

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