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  1. I am not sure bypassing your employer's security and exposing corporate secrets to Chinese and Russian hackers is the most prudent course of action. If it is for your own personal database, sure. But anything work related could get you terminated.
  2. Wow, I didn't know corporate America was locking out Evernote. When I got the alert for your post, I did a Google search, and it appears to be a common problem. Companies are making it impossible to even install EN on a work PC. Does anyone know if it is because of: 1. The massive overhead of modifying records one by one? 2. Security concerns over the EN software itself? 3. Security concerns over the fact that users will be parking corporate data on a remote, unapproved, server? I can see any of these being the reason, and I've seen speculation as to which it is--does anyone know with a high degree of reliability?
  3. Oh please--you make claims and I am still waiting for you to supply a link to support ANY of them. YOU are the only troll on here.
  4. I am the one who posted links and references. You are the one who claimed to know what a database program is better than the people at Oracle...
  5. No, you will leave it to the expertise of the experts I have quoted. Namely Techopedia, PC Magazine, and Oracle. Your mistake is in thinking that because almost all software has some level of intern database built in, all software is database software. That is akin to thinking that all software is directory maintenance software because almost all software has some level of internal directory maintenance built into it. Or, more in-line with your example, that Gmail is desktop publishing software because you can format both text and images in it. And you can print with Gmail, so it must be desktop publishing software, right? But, since you claim to have worked as a CIO, let me ask you this question--if you were advertising a job opening for someone experienced in working in databases and some yahoo showed up and put down as his experience with databases as: "I've had a Gmail account for years." Would you give him the job? No, don't bother. It was a rhetorical question. Anyone who was that ignorant of databases to think that Gmail qualified as database experience you would throw into the circular file.
  6. As I said--Evernote uses a flat structure. If it had a NESTED folder structure it wouldn't be a problem. Correct--soft of. It is so the HUMANS don't get confused. As the "name" of a folder is simply there for the humans to identify it, it needs something unique. In terms of how the OS operates, because each folder has its own unique address it points to (and only one record/information packet can physically reside at any given address) it is impossible (not "not allowed" but physically impossible) for two folders/directories to reside in the same address. If I have 10,000 directories I have bit-edited into the same name ALL sitting in the same parent directory, and I click on the 47th instance of that directory, the OS will simply open THAT particular directory without a hitch. Unique names are a human convenience, and thus an OS is coded into enforcing such, but if you bypass said OS safeguards, you don't break a single thing except the HUMAN gets confused. If you were doing a Boolean search, that would be correct. But you could still have 10,000 parent tags named 1 to 10,000 and each one has a sub-tag named "My only child" and when you clicked on the child tag in parent tag 666, you would still only get that specific "My Only Child". And, yes, as I said with a Boolean search you would need unique tag Ids. But that misses the point--the only reason to nest tags is for ease of the human finding them, OR in a ham-footed (too kludgy even for ham-fisted) attempt to simulate nested folders. Implement nested folders, and the need for duplicate tag names disappears, thus leaving you with your Boolean search. He would not need multiple tags with the same name if he was using tags as tags--it is only when you try to pretend tags are folders that you wind up with duplicate tag names.
  7. The people in the software industry, and those who actually work on databases, disagree with you.
  8. Again, only in Evernote because of its flat structure. Sort of like if your OS only allowed 1 layer of directories sitting off of the root drive, they would all have to be unique. Introduce multiple layers, and you can have the same name over and over and over again provided they all reside in different parent directories. BTW: As an aside, it is (or at least was) entirely possible to have multiple directories in the same parent have the same name. The OS normally won't permit you to create such a heresy via normal commands for your own protection, but if you direct edit the names it is possible. And when you click on the first one it will open with proper contents, and when you click on the second one it will open with its contents. The "no two folders with the same name" is a convention done to keep people from confusing themselves, it is NOT a computing requirement. (Note: It has been 20 years since I have seen this trick done so it might no longer work.) Also, if you want to cheat and PRETEND two names are identical, you can always do this:
  9. "Database software is a software program or utility used for creating, editing and maintaining database files and records. This type of software allows users to store data in the form of structured fields, tables and columns, which can then be retrieved directly and/or through programmatic access." From: https://www.techopedia.com/definition/1190/database-software#:~:text=Database software is a software,and%2For through programmatic access. "Software that is used to manage data and information structured as fields, records and files. A database program is the heart of a business information system and provides file creation, data entry, update, query and reporting functions. The traditional term for database software is "database management system" (see DBMS). For more about database structures, see DBMS, field, record, file, database and database schema." From: https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/database-program "Some examples of popular database software or DBMSs include MySQL, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, FileMaker Pro, Oracle Database, and dBASE." From: https://www.oracle.com/database/what-is-database/#:~:text=Some examples of popular database,%2C Oracle Database%2C and dBASE. Evernote is database software. Gmail is Email software. Excel is Spreadsheet software. Word is word processing software. Photoshop is image manipulation software. SoundForge is audio track manipulation software. Fallout 76 is game software. Just because each of these might use an internal database does NOT make them database software. The vast majority of programs, up to and including Chrome and iOs use internal databases, but that does not make them a database program nor does it make them "a database".
  10. Only if Evernote had NO idea on how to implement nested folders. Every database program on the planet has the ability to have multiple folders of the same name because one is a nested folder named "Same" in the parent folder of "Mom" while the other one is the folder named "Same" in the parent directory of "Dad". The reason you can't have multiple folders named the same thing in Evernote is because they have one big directory that ALL folders (notebooks) sit in.
  11. OMG--you actually believe what you wrote!!! Just because something allows you to store and retrieve data does NOT make it a database! And their functionality is RADICALLY different! That is why one is a database program ad one is an email program! Using your logic, Word, Excel, To-Do, Dragon Dictate, Adobe Acrobat, Second Life, and Photoshop are all database programs! They are not.
  12. Some of the FanBoys in here have argued adding nested folders would require more programming than will be used in the next version of Elder Scrolls--despite the fact that Evernote is the only database around without nested folders.
  13. You are the first person I have ever met that thought Gmail is a database program...
  14. We tried crating tags that were unique by making a long string of the entire hierarchy in the tag names. E.g. Research-Migration-Travel-Germany-Language Research-Migration-Travel-Germany-Bookings Research-Migration-Travel-Germany-Todo, etc... The problem is that you ALSO need to add the sub-tags as tags. Thus a single record would be tagged with: Research Migration Travel Germany Language Research-Migration Research-Migration-Travel Research-Migration-Travel-Germany Research-Migration-Travel-Germany-Language With nested folders, opening the top folder alerts you to sub-folders. With Evernote, if I miss a single tag of say: Research-Migration-Travel-Germany That record is forever lost as being useful. It is sitting there without being tagged. When I open up that tag as my pseudo folder, it is never going to exist. Of course, the people who don't work with information in this structure will say, "Yes, but if you drop the record into the wrong nested-folder, it is lost anyway. What they don't realize is that every single time you add a layer of complexity to a task humans must perform, the odds of error increase exponentially. With a nester folder, I *must* drop it into a folder. I sit and decide where it goes. One decision. With Tags as Folders I have almost double the amount of tags I must add for every record. It becomes far more likely I will drop a tag that should be applied because I must mentally drop the same document into *multiple* folders. Now add 1-2 layers to the hierarchy depth and watch the fun! We had some that were 7-8 deep, and just gave up trying to make it work. What should have been a simple record save under any other database program became a nightmare of auditing records to make sure all tags were properly applied. Evernote is great for flat databases. For deep ones, you are better off using a laser printer and a Steelcase file cabinet.
  15. If all I was working on was a shopping list, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Now make 75 organic tags and 75 organic notebooks. Some will have he same names, some will be radically different. The problem is that without nested folders, your pretend folders and real tags are all jumbled together. That means when you go in to look at your structured information, you can't because it isn't.
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