Evernote 5 is here

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 10, 2013 at 08:04 PM

dan7000 wrote:
>I wish there was a good tool for organizing a subset of EN notes into a highly structured outline.

WSP wrote:
>I just create a series of special notes—one for each
>chapter—that serve as outlines. It’s extremely easy to drag and drop
>the links to other notes into these outlines, and then I can create any
>hierarchical structure I want within each outline note.

Bill, the way I see it, you created the kind of tool that Dan suggests (and many of us have wished for), and it works for you. You’ve effectively turned EN into a personal wiki a la Connected Text, with master documents and sub notes. Since you model your content hierarchically, you use your contraption as an outliner, though others could use it as multidimensional hypertext. I am quite certain that neither Phil Libin, the Evernote CEO, nor any of his top bras have thought about this use—at least not seriously considered it.

I personally think it is a brilliantly simple solution for what you want to do, and I seriously don’t see any reason for it not working, particularly as you clearly have the academic diligence to adjust the tools to your modus operandi rather than vice versa.

Sidenote: until fairly recently in the history of the web-aware Evernote it was impossible to create a copy of a note, believe it or not. Now this works, which means that one can safely keep their original material intact as reference, while manipulating ‘clones’ whichever way they see best to fit into the document under development.