How to separate my own written Notes from PDF attachments and clipped articles

[geonorman 0]

Hi, I'm a Uni student and new to Evernote. Using the Basic Free version for now.

I have made a notebook for a particular project I'm working on, I have one Note that is my own ideas, paragraph drafts, thesis ideas etc. I've noticed when I add a PDF attachment to my Notebook, or a plain text article to my Notebook - they are often categorised in 'Notes' alongside my actual written Note. As you can see in my screenshot attached, all of the note cards look the exact same, with nothing just to easily highlight that the one titled "Potential SPC-A Policy" is the one that I am actively using as an ideas/drafting note. 

 I do not want it in the same 'Notes' section with journal articles and book chapters, as the only reason I've added those in is to keep them filed in Evernote as opposed to cluttering my bookmarks bar or desktop. 

How can I make my own written Note stand out or be separated in a different section to all my secondary reading materials? Even if I could colour code it or SOMETHING it would be helpful. Any tips are appreciated, it may not seem like a big deal but I would just like my main note to be visually separate - much easier to focus.

[gazumped 11,666]

Hi.  You do have a notebook called "maritime essay",  but what you have here are a collection of 6 notes within that notebook each containing the information that you have saved.  Notebooks are containers for notes,  and cannot contain anything else but notes.  Notes are containers for text,  images, clipped web pages etc. etc.

You might do better to have a separate notebook for 'work in progress' or some such and another for 'research material' and to move the essay note to the WIP notebook so it has its own container.

You would also do well to explore the icons to the right immediately above your notes,  which control the sort order,  and various different views of your collection of notes.

Evernote has a slew of information on notes and notebooks here... Tips for organizing notes, notebooks, and tags ...which may be helpful.

 

[Mike P 2,642]

23 hours ago, geonorman said:

 I do not want it in the same 'Notes' section with journal articles and book chapters, as the only reason I've added those in is to keep them filed in Evernote as opposed to cluttering my bookmarks bar or desktop. 

A few approaches spring to mind. If you want more fine grained organisation of notes then tags are definitely the way to go. You could keep the notebook if you wanted but then have tags associated with the particular type of notes. eg draft, research, my_notes etc

If you want to simply exclude pdfs you could do a search like

notebook:"Maritime Essay" -contains:filePdf

This search could obviously be saved and put into shortcuts if desired.

If you just want to draw attention to your notes then you could either add an icon to the title or add a distinctive image. Here's an example where I have done both:

[PinkElephant 8,114]

From the general setup I would use tags to identify the type of note. Like research, wrap up, conclusions, quotation etc.

For more visual identification you can always add emojis to the notes header. Or place a picture (can be small) into the own notes - it will be thumbnails and show prominently in the notes listing.

For access repeatedly used searches can be saved and even bookmarked as shortcuts. Here again tags help to identify the right set of notes.