how to use evernote to organize many notebooks.

I've been using it since 2006 or so (before it was the current Evernote) and I learn something from this forum every day. I could just as easily do it with tags.Įvernote, it must be said, has a learning curve, and the more useful it is the steeper that curve is. But I don't have to do that in a separate note book.

If I'm doing fine-grained research, such as for a book, I'll create a notebook for that book but I'll ALSO create a universe of tags, one of which has the same name as the notebook, so I can make certain I'm working only with notes dealing with that project. The rest are in obviously named notebooks designed to make it easier for me, not for EN, such as 'Bank Statements' and 'Receipts.' If EN didn't offer more than one notebook I could do away with both in an instant and replace them with tags - in fact, I only recently added the Bank Statements notebook, and I'm still not sure it's necessary. Then you can use the tag feature and the very strong search function to find them.Ĩ0% of my 9,000 notes are in my default notebook. I don't want to sound too rigid here, but in most cases your notes can be organized most effectively in ONE notebook. How come when I click on the John Pierce link it just brings me back to the opening evernote discussion home page? I think this post by John Pierce (jmpsfs) is accurate & well thought out & applicable to this thread, too. It just needs to be consistent or else you spend time looking for something you already 'filed.' OTOH, if you've been filing paper for a while, sooner or later you realize you need to have structure in your organization so that you always know to look for your AT&T cell phone bill under 'AT&T' rather than 'telephone' or 'cell phone'. (Although I do use more notebooks than some of the other heavy users.)Īnd I think it's probably easier if someone has background in organizing physical papers/notes/documents before jumping into Evernote b/c I think it's too easy for someone to blame EN (or any digital organization tool, perhaps) b/c they can't find something. Another reason I don't like using too many tags or worry about which notebook to put something in. For me, that ends up being a big time sink. I find it too easy to get caught up in the process of organizing things, getting it just right, filing everything precisely.

How to use evernote to organize many notebooks.