Goodbye Evernote 2.2

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 27, 2010 at 10:01 PM

Daly de Gagne wrote:
>But its tagging is weak - especially compared to a program such as
>Surfulater.

I am not sure I understand what you mean. For me the tagging functionality in these two applications is more or less equivalent, and more powerful than the majority of applications I have worked with. Tags are not my preferred way of working, but I use them extensively in Evernote as there are no hierarchical notebooks or folders. I have found the EN tagging system very capable and flexible with hierarchical organisation, autosuggest, multiselection (especially in filtering) and similar intuitive features.

The only tagging feature I haven’t found in Evernote is clones in the tag tree, i.e. possibility for a tag to exist in more than one positions in the hierarchy concurrently—one could argue however that classification-wise this makes no sense. I don’t know whether Surfulater has this feature.

> And Surfulater allows both a folders and tag structuring.

Yes indeed; I thought it was overkill to support both folders and tags (and clones, which means that items may exist in several folders concurrently), but it is great for users to be able to choose whichever system suits them best.