REQUEST: EN 5: one note in several notebooks

[Tiberius 15]

I would like to see the option to have one note in several notebooks at the same time. Of course I could copy a note and put it into a second notebook, but if I then change one note, the original/copy would remain unchanged.

Any chance to get that feature?

Love the new Evernote 5 on my iPad 2, btw. Way better looking than the previous version, faster and better to use too!

[BurgersNFries 2,407]

Probably no chance this will be added. That's what tags are for.

[Tiberius 15]

Thanks for your fast response, b'n'f, but I'm no tag lover. Never was.

Well, we'll see if I will be lucky some day.

Have a nice weekend!

[PeterLondon 34]

Tiberius - tags are really just clever notebooks. You can have one note, and tag it with more than one tag. Thus the note is now in more than one tag notebook.

Just imagine in your mind that tags are really notebooks, indeed, the very notebooks you are looking for!

[BurgersNFries 2,407]

Additionally, Evernote notebooks are comparable to Folders on a hard drive. Files can only live in one folder on a hard drive.

[Chris Short 9]

But I can symlink to files on a hard drive ;-)

[BurgersNFries 2,407]

But I can symlink to files on a hard drive ;-)

I don't see what this has to do with the topic. A file resides in only one folder on a hard drive & Evernote notes only live in one notebook.

[Martin Packer 162]

@Tiberius, I'd suggest you consider the case for tagging again. As @BnF said it's exactly what tags are for. Personally I hate multiple filing (which my email client forces on me).

Either that or rely on search (which has its limitations - such as when the term isn't inherently in the note's text).

[stormagnet 0]

*bump*

 

I would also request this feature, though I'm a Windows/Android user, not Mac. For my use case, tags wouldn't really be appropriate- repeated tagging and searching would be far more cumbersome than simply symlinking.

[Wordsgood 526]

Have considered using the Note Link function to link all related note together?

Just a thought.

*bump*

I would also request this feature, though I'm a Windows/Android user, not Mac. For my use case, tags wouldn't really be appropriate- repeated tagging and searching would be far more cumbersome than simply symlinking.

[stormagnet 0]

I have, but it would be awkward and inappropriate for what I want to do. I frequently have notes that are relevant under multiple folders, and I find it frustrating to decide arbitrarily which one to put them in. I could use tags instead of folders, but I find the tag search is slower and more awkward, both for filing and for searching, than just using folders.

[stormagnet 0]

To be more specific: I mostly use Evernote to manage clippings. When using tags to organize them, the added overhead of typing in the tags for every. single. file. gets really out of hand. But when there are multiple equally likely folders for a clipping to be in, having to hunt through them when I can't remember which one I used is also frustrating. I could just clip multiple copies, but then my annotations wouldn't stay in sync across the different folders. So, there are solutions, but no perfect ones. I'm not sure if symlinks would be unduly onerous to implement, but they would definitely be the ideal solution for me, if we could have them.

Ergo, bump.

[Wordsgood 526]

Hmm, I'm afraid I don't know what else to suggest. Note links, tags and keywords are the sum total of my EN organizing knowledge. Sorry, wish I could be more helpful.