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One of the ways I use Evernote is to take notes from different meetings. I would like to have a way to add people from my contacts list as a tag to these notes. At the moment I create a tag for every person I have a meeting with. For example if I were to meet X and Y then I would add tags persX and persY to the meeting notes. Is there a way I could use my contacts as a tag to my notes without having to duplicate my entire contacts list as tags within Evernote. Any suggestions or efficient work arounds would be appreciated.

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Since you have fewer meetings (probably) than you have contacts,  could you turn the system around and tag your contact notes with a tag for the meeting(s) which they attend?  My system has a date/zipcode tag for meetings (since I do sometimes have more than one meeting per day) and if I look up a meeting I can also see all the contacts who attended.  If I look up a contact,  I get a link to the meeting(s) to which they've been.  The connections aren't exhaustive - I had two meetings yesterday attended by around 100 people and haven't gotten down to identifying many of them yet - but as and when I do,  even if I'm reminded "yes - we met at that session..." in a few months' time,  I can still tag their contact details accordingly.  Works for me,  anyway.

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This would add a layer of relationship management to Evernote. If you can tag notes by contact, say Google contacts or IOS contacts, then you would be able to pull up every note tagged for that contact.

I create notes specifically for contacts, as well as storing emails, pdf's, and photos, general interaction history. Tagging by contact (not simply typing the contact name as tag), would be game-changing.

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One of the ways I use Evernote is to take notes from different meetings. I would like to have a way to add people from my contacts list as a tag to these notes. At the moment I create a tag for every person I have a meeting with. For example if I were to meet X and Y then I would add tags persX and persY to the meeting notes. Is there a way I could use my contacts as a tag to my notes without having to duplicate my entire contacts list as tags within Evernote. Any suggestions or efficient work arounds would be appreciated.

 

 

If you're talking about small(ish) meetings, I prefer to simply type the name of the attendees rather than add tags.  For larger meetings (IE Gaz's 100 people example), no way I'd want to create and/or add 100 tags.  In that case, I'd simply add the names of the pertinent people, since it may not be important for me to know every, single attendee.  Or...if (for whatever reason), I did want/need to know every, single attendee, I'd try to get a list some other way (IE a roster by those organizing the meeting) that someone could email me & then I'd add that to Evernote.

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What I would like to do is easily search by contact to pull up every note that I have for that contact. This is similar to what the OP is suggesting, basically a connection between your contacts and Evernote.

One way to hack this result is to simply include the contact name in the title of the note, and them search by title.

We can already sync with Google to make it easy to share a note via email. Why not have some integration between ios contacts and/or Google contacts?

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What I would like to do is easily search by contact to pull up every note that I have for that contact. This is similar to what the OP is suggesting, basically a connection between your contacts and Evernote.

One way to hack this result is to simply include the contact name in the title of the note, and them search by title.

We can already sync with Google to make it easy to share a note via email. Why not have some integration between ios contacts and/or Google contacts?

Why not? Maybe b/c it's either something EN has decided against or has assigned other things that have a higher priority.

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