Some Reflections on Evernote and MyInfo

Posted by WSP
Aug 20, 2011 at 07:10 PM

Yes, I’m aware that it’s possible to arrange tags hierarchically in the Evernote tag list, but that doesn’t solve all of my problems. Here’s an example (from the same family tree notes I described above):

It’s easy in EN to create a tag for the “Doe” family. But under Doe I want to be able to create subcategories for “John Doe” and “Jane Doe.” That is where the difficulties start. In theory I could do that, but in a large body of notes on anyone’s family history, creating a tag for each individual would produce an intolerably long list of tags, especially since EN forces us to put all notebooks into a single file. In MyInfo I can separate my family notes from other kinds of notes very easily (and then search across more than one file if I wish), but in EN the tags of all those combined notebooks can quickly get out of control. I have thousands of notes in EN (mainly a legacy from using earlier versions of it), and my tag list is already stupefying large.