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Has anyone created or seen a "style guide" for evernote. By this I mean something has created that has a workflow for taking a note from Inbox to the proper notebook.

I realize this will vary per the person - I'm more interested in what sort of things people have found important to keep track of and how they've made these consistent.

For instance, as a consultant I do a lot of pre-sales and post-sales work so I tag any customer note in my "Customers" notebook with 'presales' or 'postsales' so I can easily get a list of opportunities to follow up on, etc.

I keep a tag for each account manager so I can see if someone is being greedier than the others, etc.

What other sort of things do you find useful to add to a note when it becomes "permanent"

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I'm more interested in what sort of things people have found important to keep track of and how they've made these consistent.

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What other sort of things do you find useful to add to a note when it becomes "permanent"

Here's a thread that never took off: viewtopic.php?f=45&t=12672&p=50510&hilit=uses#p50506

As far as consistency, I'm pretty good at using keywords. I'll often use misspelled/alternate spellings of keywords. IE, if a contact's name is Shafer, I'll add Shaffer as a keyword.

I'd say at least 90% of all the notes I add will be "permanent." The only temporary ones are things like where I parked my car or my husband's latest itinerary.

When researching a new project or product, I'll often create a new notebook to store all the info, so that it's all right there. IE, when researching a new doctor, I created a new notebook, _newdoc. (The underscore puts the notebook at the top of the list for quick access.) All the screen caps, website URLS, personal notes were added to that notebook. Once I was done, I made sure each note had "doctor selection 2009" in the note, then tagged them all "medical" & dumped them all into my general catch all notebook. Then deleted the _newdoc notebook. Next time I need to research a new doctor, I can search on 'doctor selection.' (The 2009 is to be able to differentiate between doc selections over time, should that happen.) If I forget those words, I would like to think I'd remember to look for 'Arizona Medical Board' b/c that note would jog my memory about the keywords I used. And if I didn't, I'd just have to skim through all the notes with the word doctor in them as well as the doctor's name I ended up selecting & tagged medical (tag is really probably optional, at this point), until I found one that reminded me the keywords I used. :)

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