Alexander Deliyannis wrote:

Simon, I've been tempted since I first saw your name in this forum to
ask you if your surname is really Bolivar, and if you happen to be from
Chile, but I can leave it for another time... :-)

On your subject, I've been using Evernote for several years and have
more than 10,000 notes in my notebooks, many of them including rich
content (mostly images and sometimes audio files). The database is about
1.4 Gbytes. I have a couple of hundred tags, organised in a hierarchy.
As far as I see, none of my tags happen to have more than a couple of
hundred items, but switching from a tag to the other takes less than a
second, and this time seems independent of the number of items under the
various tags I switch between.

Evernote uses SQLite as its infrastructure; I would say that both SQLite
and Evernote have a tremendous user base and that if there were issues
of scaleability they would have turned up long ago.

Depending on what you will want to do with your notes, Connected Text
might offer more useful features, e.g. for organising them around
specific scientific papers. In fact, there is little you can do with
your notes after they are entered in Evernote, other than search them,
tag them and edit them--you can of course select some and export them as
HTML for use in other programs, but that's it. But I believe that
Evernote has the advantage in ease of collection of rich content, plus
ubiquitous availability.

Hi Alexander, I replied to Dr Andus above reagrding ConnectedText and it is a programme which I am very interested in but which I will try at a later stage, as I am currently consolidating all of my notes into Rightnote. I have an Evernote account but haven't used it very much, I actually used onenote a lot more but haven't moved forward with the latter product. RN was that it was offered at 50% discount on bits du jour and at that time (Nov 2012) I was torn between UltraRecall, myinfo and WhizFolders; I was trialling them all for most of 2012, but I took the plunge for RN, as as enjoyable as it is to learn different softwares, I really need to pool my data into one software, even if there are very good cases for the ones that I have tried, and for many more besides. Funnily enough, I saw recently that UR was reduced on bits du jour so it was a matter of timing! Que sera sera.

Anyway back to Evernote, one aspect of RN that is helpful, is it's integration with EN, so I am minded to do a simple experiment entering quotations into EN and seeing how that works with RN.

I don't care to leave you with a mystery, I am English, living in the UK, but I did travel in South America; Peru and Colombia, (I do have friends in Chile too), and I visited Santa Marta where Simon Bolivar died. I took a shine to his exploits and hence my nom de plume on this forum.

Thanks again.