I have been trying to find ways to squeeze more organization into or out of my Evernote use.
I have been reading that EN design really supports limited nesting of concepts in stack/notebook/note structure, and that it is really supportive of more complex networked relationships using tags. Ok. I started designing a nice tag structure, and decided to test it before I got too far. I set up a parent tag: Analytics, and 3 child tags: Quantitative, Qualitative, Visualization. I can apply these so I have 2 notes with Analytics, 5 notes with Quantitative, 20 notes with Qualitative, and 10 notes with Visualization. I can search on any child tag and get the relevant notes, but if I want to find all Analytics notes (including all descendant notes), it comes up with just the 2 notes with the specific Analytics tag. It leaves me to wonder, is this a bug or a feature? Or a User Error? I'm hoping for the latter.
Without too much of a rant here, it seems like the hierarchical nature of the tags is more conceptual that practical if I don't get any inheritance properties in child or grandchild relationships. If that's the case, why is this seen as so useful? I'm probably missing something insightful here, but am honestly trying to get more good use out of this platform.
Thanks for any pearls of wisdom.