![]() There are some areas where I wouldn’t have a problem shoehorning notes into just one notebook, and where extra notebooks might be useful. The Lifehacker article has caused me to think about how I use Evernote, however. (To see how you can use just one notebook with a GTD system, check out Bobby Travis’ post on Getting Things Done (GTD) in Evernote with Only One Notebook ). My Inbox has been in a similar state for a couple of years, and I have yet to run into a problem with it. I say “with the hope” because I currently have 358 notes in my Inbox. When I create a note, it by default goes into my Inbox notebook, with the hope that I will immediately tag it, and file it into a Notebook. In fact, I often slack off with tagging notes, given Evernote’s search functionality. ![]() The latter is obvious, so all I really need to think about is picking tags. Speed and efficiency. I don’t have to give thought to both my selection of tags, and selection of a notebok. A note can have multiple tags. I find that too many of my notes are pertinent to multiple subject areas, and would be hard to categorize into one Notebook.Ģ. I find tags to be superior than having many notebooks for two reasons:ġ. I use tags as my main organizational feature. I found that most of my ‘notes’ should have, in fact, been ‘notebooks,’ allowing me to store larger volumes of information with better organization.” ![]() In a recent post on Lifehacker, Whitson Gordon noted as follows: Am I in the minority with how I use Evernote notebooks? ![]() But by and large, all of my notes go into my two main notebooks. I also have an “Inbox” notebook where notes reside until they are moved into one of the other notebooks. There are a few other random ones that are automatically created by apps, such as the notebook that Scanner Pro, an iOS app, creates. I only have two main notebooks in Evernote: Work, and Personal. A recent article on Lifehacker has me wondering if I’m using Evernote all wrong. ![]()
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