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  1. @gazumped & @Dave-in-Decatur. squidgwinkle is absolutely right, even Windows Notepad can open a file with the cursor at the end of the text, to facilitate a sequence of entries. It is neither an obscure scenario nor a complicated one, particularly in a program for writing and managing notes. Don't lecture users. Don't tell them that the way they are using the product is wrong. If you don't listen to them, then another product will. That is the way to go out of business.
  2. In my opinion - wrong choice. If you try to swim against this tide you will be swept away. The world of GUI interfaces has worked out how to do the folder metaphor and moved on. If you use folders in your product then people expect them to behave in a certain way (e.g. have nesting) or they will not understand your product and will choose not to use it when a more natural alternative presents itself - as it will. It's not really about the merits of the case it's about what people want, what feels natural to them. Apple have built an empire developing products which are built on this idea and have crushed numerous "superior" products in the process. Take your engineer's hat off and consider a 17 year old with an Iphone and laptop and a million apps to choose from. Any patience there, do you think, for non standard folders and a quirky way of using tags? Now, you may say that 17 year olds are not today's typical Evernote users - but they are tomorrow's, they have to be or Evernote doesn't have a future. The IT world is littered with the corpses of perfectly good products which didn't heed this message. In the 1990s WordPerfect used to rule the universe of word processing and used to lecture the IT world with the arguments in favour of non GUI editors with keyboard shortcuts (they were faster, more efficient, typists preferred them etc.) and then Word came along with its GUI and point and click and WordPerfect disappeared overnight. It's about survival.
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