stuartibee

Hierarchical tags with independent namespaces, presented via a convenient UI, would suit my needs.

I sort of agree with Crispinb on this one, but I need to be able to drag copies of tags under notebooks, so that the same tag can appear under more than one notebook. Then it looks like sub-folders. : -

+NOTEBOOKS

Notebook1

______data

______notes

______tips-tricks

Notebook2

______data

______notes

______tips-tricks

+TAGS

application

assembly

construction

data

notes

tips-tricks

Surely this wouldn't be hard to do . . since there seems to be a pseudo-hierarchical tag thing working already?

Keep everything as it is. Just allow tags to be located under notebooks.

I suspect I'm not the only person here who knows perfectly well that some of my projects need container hierarchies and am getting a bit bored of being told that they don't.

There are no 'containers'. Its all an abstract concept. You could think of 'Notebooks' as tags too. Your notes are a continuous ribbon.

Even on a desktop file system like XP your stuff is scattered all over the hard drive and the 'container folders' you perceive is a just labelling system.

Re-badge the hierarchical tags as 'smart folders' and make them behave properly and everyone is happy?

It seems to me that tagging does already offer the functionality of sub-notebooks. It sjust a matter of interface and presentation IMHO.

Here is my idea to provide sub-notebook functionality without altering the basic existing architecture of Evernote.

ALLOW COPIES OF TAGS TO BE POSITIONED BESIDE THE NOTEBOOKS!!!

This will make it look like there are sub-notebooks.

Summary : -

Tags draggable to Notebooks (new behaviour)

Notes dragged to a Notebook get assigned to the Notebook (existing behaviour)

Notes dragged to a Notebook's Tag get assigned to the Notebook AND its Tag (new behaviour)

Notes dragged to a Tag get assigned to the Tag (existing behaviour)

Notes dragged to a Sub-Tag get assigned to the sub-tag and its parent Tag (new behaviour)

Clicking on Project2\Tag5 you would see only Notes in that Notebook with Tag5 (which is exactly the same as currently highlighting a Notebook and a Tag!)

Clicking on Project2 top level would obviously show ALL Project2 Notes (as currently)

Clicking on Tag5 in the Tag List would obviously show ALL Tag 5 Notes (as currently)

NoteBooks

+project 1

____tag1

____tag4

+project 2

____tag1

____tag5

+project 3

____tag1

____tag6

____tag7

Tags

tag1

tag2

tag3

+tag4

____tag5

____tag6

tag7

- No change to basic architecture or search function.

- People who like things just as they are dont need to drag tags to Notebooks and will perceive no difference.

- People who want/need sub-notebooks just use tags to create them.

I am reading all this with great interest!

The problem would be solved (for me at least) if dragging to a sub-tag applied the parent tag too.

Tags are good and powerful because you can use the same tags in multiple notebooks, but it makes no sense to present them as sub-tags without them inheriting the parent tag . . as previous posters have said.

Can someone remind me the subtle difference in functionality between dragging a note to a tag as against a tag to a note?