Goodbye Evernote 2.2

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Aug 28, 2010 at 01:37 PM

Alex, the Surfulater feature I like is that “nested related tags are automatically show.” in the tree, and do not have to be manually set up as with EN.

The way Neville has set this up it seems it is possibly more likely Surfulater, and not EN, will end up with the capability of finding the articles which have a specific set of tags you might specify on the fly. For example, all articles tagged Freud, mindfulness, and attachment - InfoHandler has always been the champ at this ability - because it was tag based in essence, and you could be very specific about which tags you use to find articles.

If, for example, there are 100 articles mentioning Freud, or 125 mindfulness, or 85 attachment it can be a chore to get the 17 which are tagged Freud-mindfulness-attachment if you can use a multiple tag approach. The beauty of tagging is that the tag word does not have to appear in the article, so it can get around a problem of using a regular search.

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>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.