Evernote’s abject lack of hierarchical folders and the inability to order them other than alphabetically has been the biggest sticking point in my usage of its software and service thus far.
I’ve tonnes of tags and have given up manually tagging every single article – OCD me hates leaving out tags, considering that Evernote is a quasi-archival system. I prefer to simply fire and forget.
Furthermore, sports car reviews and internships ideas at automotive companies might share the tag ‘automotive’. I simply don’t have the time and memory to remember every single permutation as I quickly sort through my note inbox, even with the usage of hierarchical tags.
How should i then decide to tag an article on carbon tax and its resulting effect on the price of vehicles from The Economist that has a crucial socio-economic argument in it, where the underlined words are tags that i already have. It severely hampers skimming through the news where I’ve minimal time to categorise my bits and bytes.
And what if the tags overlap? For example, my programming booklist (a ‘to buy’) and programming article database (well, a database) share the tag ‘programming’. Once again my OCD tendencies resent both categories displayed with this tag.
Why not just file things properly, where they should be, where they were meant to, in the way that you would like them?
Hence this awfully clumsy method as show in the screenshot above. :/
Add a numerical prefix to folders you wish to organise.
Then, add a second, third, forth numeral, so on and so forth for each nested layer.
Biggest drawback – if a new folder needs to be inserted in the front, woe befall you and the necessary relabeling of every subsequent folder.
And one more big wish Evernote: Wiki style links please.
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