D-Nick

Arrrggghh ... just tried, and this still doesn't work for me, because I need a further level of hierarchy I'd not realised until now. Many of my professional development courses are grouped together into what some providers call "specialisations" and others call "programmes" - a sequence of courses that follow on from each other, and lead towards an end ("capstone") project that pulls it all together. So, my hiearchy of notebooks needs to look like this (just some parts of the tree are expanded) ... Ancient Scripts Project ... Professional Development UCSD Big Data Specialisation Course 01 Introduction to Big Data ... Course 02 Hadoop a) Hadoop Basics i) Hadoop Stack Basics ii) Apache Framework Modules iii) HDFS iv) The Hadoop Zoo v) Hadoop Ecosystem vi) Cloudera Distribution hands-on Module Readings Exercise b) Hadoop Stack Details i) HDFS & HDFS2 ii) MapReduce Framework & YARN iii) Hadoop Execution Environment .... c) HDFS Details ... d) Map/Reduce Details Course 3: ... ... Course 4: ... ... and so on. I make that 5 levels of hierarchy of folders or shelves, or stacks or sections or whatever we want to call them, assuming I can make the sections that start with small Roman numerals into notes, although they would be fairly lengthy (several pages each), I think.

Thanks for the suggestions. That makes the notes (=sections) quite a lot bigger than I would like them to be (courses typically have a collection of different items within a section, such a lecture notes, my own reading, exercises, etc), but if this is the only way it can work, at least it *can* work and be brwseable, unlike these really complicated and enthusdiast-only tagging techniques. So, are you not using tags at all? Or just using them for secondary searching?

That seems really confusing to me - are you saying I would have to type in those long red texts somewhere just to be able to navigate to the part of a notebook that I want to read? That seems a lot more complicatred - more typing and a heavier memory load - than just be able to see and expand folders.

I have no idea how I would create a browseable hierarchy doing that. Where's the best place to find instructions for how that works? A hierarchy of notebooks/sections etc is intuitive to me, but this is not, so I need to find instructions.

I have been hunting through this thread and the suggestions linked to from it on-and-off for a year or so, hoping to find out how I can use tags to get the shelf/notebook/section/page hierarchy that I need. It seems to me that those espousing tags as doing everything that can be needed are focussing on *search* rather than *browse* capability. That's fine if I want to search for a page with a particular comment on it, but less useful if what I want to do is read sequentially through a set of notes - for example, if I want to revisit my notes from part of a project or a course I was working on a while ago. The model in my head of what I want is to have: SHELF - Shelves (or "stacks" in EN terminology) corresponding to, for example, "Professional Development", "Projects", "Domestic", and so on NOTEBOOK - Within shelves (stacks), notebooks corresponding to, for example", particular professional development courses I have taken, projects I have worked on, etc. SECTION - Within a notebook, I want sections for the parts of the course - for example, in a notebook for a Machine Learning course, I might have sections of Introduction, Linear Regression 1V, Linear Regression MV, Logistic Regression, Regularisation, etc NOTE - Within each section I want to put my actual notes, with a logical order So, if I want to refresh myself on Logistic Regression, I go to the "Professional Development" shelf, take the "Stanford Machine Learning 2014/15" notebook, turn to the "Logistic Regression" section, and read through the notes there in sequence. I am unclear how to use the EN tag hierarchy to do that. I have tried various ways, but I end up having to do messy clumsy things of going via a search form, having to remember tags I used these things when I saved them, and then trying to guess what order to look at the search results in to get the logical order that part of the course happened in. It seems to me that it is easy an obvious how to browse to things in hierarchical storage metaphor, but that tagging and searching doesn't fit this particular access need. (Don't get me wrong - tags are great, and I can use tags to meet subsidiary *search* requirements I have, but I can't make it fit well to this more common access need I have). Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here, and how to get what I want using tags?

Thanks. What I don't get, though, is how this helps. What do I then do with these tags so that they can me simulate me putting a note in a notebook in the right place in a hierarchy, so I can then go to the right place to read it later? For example, if I want to have a notebook for a course I'm taking, and then have different sections in that notebook for the different topics in the course, how would I do that with a tag hierarchy, so that as I take notes (and find things as hoc) they can go into the right section, and later I can go and read through that section?

Could you point me, please, at the documentation that explains how to use tags to simulate folder/notebook hierarchies? I just can't get how to do it, and can't find any explanation or guidance.

I've been a casual user of Evernote for several years, but have never really got the hang of how to organise my stuff in it. With the subscription changes last year, I ponied up for a paid-for account, and since then have making more of an effort to use it effectively. However, I am still struggling with how best to organise things in Evernote. I frequently find myself wanting to have another tier of structure, below a notebook and above a note. I have searched through these forums, and see a lot of people saying that isn't necessary, because you can do it all with tags, but I haven't yet found anyone saying *how* to do that. Here's a particular scenario. I take a bunch of adult education classes. I am trying to have an Evernote stack which is all of my personal classes. Each class has a notebook. But I want a division below that, because otherwise I just end up with an unstructured mess of notes, clippings, web pages, PDFs, etc in that notebook that I can’t find my way around. For example, in my current Corpus Linguistics notebook (class), I want a section that contains tips and notes and manuals about how to use the software tools we use on the class. I can’t make them a single note, because I want/need to be able to clip various different web pages and stuff to refer to, and I can’t see how it’s possible to structure a note to have lots of web pages clipped into it. Or should I be using the notebook as my section, so that every class has, say a dozen notebooks – one for each week or topic of the course, another one for software notes and manuals, and another for reading? In that case the class would become a stack, but what do I then use as a level about the stack? Where is the “shelf” where my all my different class stacks live? Any suggestions on how to create the structure I want using the note->book->stack limitation, plus tags?