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Your question is a bit of a head-scratcher. What possible "ulterior motive" could there be? What' do you think? Is there a conspiracy underlying this? Do we need to launch a federal investigation? I suspect that the answer is somewhat more prosaic. I can think of lots of reasons why Evernote might not implement this particular feature, but none of them are ulterior. They're just part of what any developer goes through when deciding which features get implemented and which ones don't. The article Minus 100 Points illustrates one way to think about it, in the context of deciding which features ought to go into the C# programming language: "Every feature starts out in the hole by 100 points, which means that it has to have a significant net positive effect on the overall package for it to make it into the language. Some features are okay features for a language to have, they just aren't quite good enough to make it into the language". Also, remember that every feature requires resources that are taken away from other features. Personally, I think that it wold be cool to have sortable tables, with the ability to have spreadsheet-like formulas etc., and I know that that's not a huge technological task, but I'd have to rate that as nice-to-have, but probably not a requirement for a lot of Evernote's users. It's most likely really that simple.

Yes; it's pretty much a hack on the existing search language: it just add all of the subtags to the original tag, and turns it into an OR search, as best I could tell. I kept stumbling across it inadvertently while adding tags to a (default) AND search: I'd add one and the whole thing would * E X P L O D E !! *. Took me a while to figure it out, based in the search info panel.

That does work as advertised, but it would be far, far better if that behavior were supported in the search language, which I'm guessing is the intent of the user you replied to, who wants a "search expression". The Windows version is well-nigh unusable, because you need to go to Options to enable/disable the behavior if you want a different search type.

If/until this feature is added, there are possibilities that might help, depending on which Evernote application you are using: Create an Evernote shortcut to your note. Shortcuts are generally easily available. In some clients (I use Windows, with snippet view, and Android), reminder notes appear in a separate list above the note list. The reminder list can be configured to sort by reminder date, or you can order it yourself via drag/drop. I use this to keep frequently accessed notes readily available.

Then you should create a feature request in the appropriate forum (probably General) to try to get that added.

They know about this already -- it's discussed here (which was linked from the original forum announcement): https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002061928?utm_campaign=dm&utm_medium=url+link&utm_source=discussion+forums. Short form:

Sure, and someone else would like to see one more than yours, and so on. I'm not saying that it's not ok to request this, or to relate your user case, btw, "just one more" doesn't quite cut it. If they're gonna do this, it's a pretty safe bet that they'll allow an arbitrary nesting depth. The fact that they don't allow any notebook nesting except in stacks currently doesn't prevent you from keeping a notebook for each class; unfortunately the blog post doesn't consider anything past the current semester, which is what you're thinking (ahead) about. This is something that you can certainly solve using tags, though, in the Evernote of today. Even if you use a notebook for each class in the current semester, it's easy in the desktop applications to add a tag to all notes in a notebook, so tag each note for a class with the class name, and then Evernote can isolate on those notes wherever they are in your Evernote collection.

Some people, do, I'm sure, though notebooks have their uses. But tags and notebooks have different semantics, and different use cases. A note may belong to exactly one notebook at a time, whereas a note may have multiple tags. This is sort of like the difference between containment and labeling (and the terms "notebook" and "tag" are suggestive of that). So notebooks partition your notes into discrete sets. Tags, well, they can label any note, in any of your notebooks, so you can organize as you see fit: some people choose to have the tag hierarchy model a folder hierarchy, some do not (me, for one). Anyways, so what good are notebooks? Well, you can share a group of notes to another user in a notebook; you can't do that with tags. That's about it for me: I share several notebooks between to separate accounts (personal and work), so I don't leak my personal stuff into my work account. Works pretty well for me. Beyond that, the mobile applications will let you designate certain notebooks to be available offline, so you can choose your most important stuff to be with you at all times. There are lots of advantages to using Evernote tags over notebooks, but notebooks aren't wholly useless. Finding the right balance for your workflow is critical to using Evernote well.

Windows? Mac? Web? This functionality certainly exists in the Evernote for Windows application.

Because it's already been requested elsewhere? See

If I right-click on an image in Chrome on Windows, I get a menu with "Evernote Web Clipper" as an entry, and underneath it is "Clip image to Evernote".

The forum title is up near the top, in unhelpfully faint gray: Home > Possible Bugs/Technical Issues > Evernote for Windows > Select multiple notes -- how (in Windows)? Click on the Home link to see the main forum page.

In Chrome, I can select the body of the note (doesn't appear to be able to select the note title, unfortunately), and print from the Chrome print menu. That might suffice as a workaround,...

One point of reference: https://onenote.uservoice.com/forums/245490-onenote-developer-apis/suggestions/16289065-markdown-support-for-onenote-desktop-and-web

That's true enough, but a bit oversimplified, since you can assign multiple tags to any note, but you can't assign multiple notebooks to it. That's a large semantic difference.

In terms of how Evernote works at this time, a note can be "contained" by more than one tag, whereas a note can be contained in exactly one notebook. Since what you asked for "I have several notebooks that have overlapping subjects and would like to be able to reference a common note in multiple notebooks." isn't possible, the closest analogue that Evernote has is to use tags. This is why I mainly use tags over notebooks; because subjects do indeed overlap, and notebooks don't handle that case well (I mostly use notebooks to share specific note subsets between my two separate accounts, work and personal). Tags can identify note subsets of related notes across notebooks. That's just me, but on the other hand, I don't see the note-resides-in-exactly-one-notebook changing any time soon. The other suggestion, using note links, might be useful, but it adds an extra step: you need to put the note link inside a note, so you then need to find *that* note first. That might work better for you, though, since I don't know a lot about your use case.

"A good thing" is probably not a great way to express what I meant, and is also not fair to those folks who want this feature. Since you ask, I have a fair number of tags across two accounts that share notebooks (maybe 3-4 hundred?), I do use nested subtags, but mainly for loose organization, not rigorous, hierarchical categorization; I almost never navigate my tag tree (in fact, I usually keep my tag tree closed altogether.) because in my system, tags are not used like a folder system: they are mainly used to describe notes. There's no such thing as a "real hierarchy" for my tags, because my tags are intentionally intended to be used across categories. With respect to "nested folders" in Evernote, there are none (indeed, there are no "folders" at all; there are notebooks and stack). Notebooks may be collected into stacks, but otherwise, notebooks don't nest (notebooks cannot contain notebooks or stacks), and neither do stacks (stacks cannot contain other stacks). Anyways, sure, I use a small number of notebooks, 24 across two accounts (I'd use fewer if I didn't need to share some subsets across accounts), and 6 or 7 stacks. So sure, I use hierarchy to some degree, but I try to keep it to a minimum. I think that hierarchy is largely inferior to categorization, which is what tags are good for.. Side note: Searching by tag is easy in the Windows application, using Alt+Shift+T which does tag filtering: based on the current context (notebook + tags), it presents only tags that are used in the current result set. Narrows things down quickly, no tag tree required. So to your question, " wouldn't you find it great to have similar way to organise your notes", my answer would be "no, because I don't need it". But beyond that, and to come back around to my "good thing" statement, as a software developer, my opinion on the notion of nesting shortcuts is it's just adding where it's not really needed. A simple short list is what I generally aim for in operating with software (see the 7 plus or minus 2 principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_or_Minus_Two). This works for me in searching for notes, it's pretty well a part of why Google search is so popular and useful, and it's similar to how I think shortcuts ought to work. If I have to hunt and peck (or pick, haha) through a tree of shortcuts, it's not much of a shortcut, right? You've just traded complication in your notebooks or tags for complication in shortcuts. So that's my professional opinion, but in fairness to other Evernote users, sure it's fine to request it in other Evernote clients. I wouldn't use it (just as I wouldn't use nested notebooks), but it's no skin off my nose that others would. Apologies for not being more clear before. Because I was talking about the Windows client, which doesn't have nested shortcuts), it's not relevant to your situation on the Mac.

Or if it's a reasonably short list, you can use the scroll wheel if you have one to get to the end, and then Shift+LeftClick to select the sequence. My my mouse has a button you can press that makes the scroll wheel spin freely, so it can move quite a distance on one spin.

Sorry. When most people use the term 'PC', they mean Windows, and I missed the 'Mac' part of it. As I say, I can't speak to the Mac application. My mistake. On the Windows application, shortcuts don't nest (and I think that that's a good thing). But not germane to you, so carry on...

Are you talking about actual Evernote Shortcuts, or the tag tree, which is separate. In Evernote for Windows, there is no nesting of shortcuts in the shortcuts list. There *is* nesting for tags in the tag tree. And I see subtags sorted alphabetically under their parent tags in the tag tree. I can't speak to the Evernote for Mac.

I'll move this to the feature request forum for Evernote Web.

Doesn't really solve the original scenario. As suggested, using tags is the way to approach this in Evernote.

I aim to please...

Version 7.6 of what? Sounds like you're using the Mac client, but this topic relates to the web client, which is different.

If you're using the beta version, then you should switch to the so-called "current version" (Account Settings, "Use current version"), and you can stack and unstack to your heart's delight: