Some Reflections on Evernote and MyInfo

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 20, 2011 at 04:38 PM

FWIW, Evernote does have a hierarchical tree, for organising tags. For me this is a direct equivalent of a ‘classic’ hierarchical tree allowing clones (i.e. an item being included in more than one branches of the tree) given that an Evernote item can have multiple tags.

With tags, the tree paradigm is turned on its head in a way, but I find that I can do any kind of hierachical organising that I would with, say, UltraRecall or Surfulater. Well, with a couple of caveats:

- All tag names have to be unique; e.g. you can’t have a Software tag under a PC category and a Mac category too. Solution: PC (parent tag) \ PC Software (child tag), Mac (parent tag) \ Mac Software (child tag)

- You can’t see the actual items on the tree, only in the separate list pane. However, I find this an advantage rather than a handicap, since you can have large numbers of items without operpopulating the tree. It is the same approach used by Zoot, Sycon IDEA! and mail clients.

WSP wrote:
>Just a few more thoughts about the troubling non-hierarchical aspect of Evernote. EN
>(the Windows version, at least) has recently introduced internote linking, and
>lately I’ve been doing some experiments to see whether that feature can be made to
>replace, at least in part, a hierarchical tree.