A simple way to instantly find a note in Evernote

The main principle: tags, rather than notebooks

Many Evernote users are turning to this cloud service as normal, real notepads: they create a whole bunch of notebooks and distribute them my notes.

Yes, at first, this method seems quite convenient, until you have accumulated several hundred notes, some of which are suitable for multiple notebooks or, conversely, are not suitable for any of the them.

And with all this, you lose one of the coolest ways to manage their accounts - tag system.

In principle, tags - it is almost the same as that of notebooks, with the only difference being that the tags system is much more flexible and allows you to locate records much faster. Here's how to use it.

Step 1. Create notebooks

You will in any case need notebooks, whether you use tags or not. But when tagged with notebooks need far less.

Five pieces would be enough to organize any number of notes.

1. new notes

Here you can put all the newly created notes, which have not worked. Notes are in this notebook as long as you do not define them tags, and not transferred to another notebook.

2. working notes

This section will be stored all the useful note: interesting articles and collections, some data on the projects, links and other information that may be required in the process.

3. Memories

In this notebook, you can store all the notes with entertainment information and memories: photos, audio and video files, important personal letters, poems. Where you can store everything that does not touch the work.

4. miscellanea

In this notebook, you can store all the information that does not match any job under any entertainment. Any food recipes, schedule doctor's reception, penalties and other information.

5. Basket

Here everything is clear.

Step 2. create tags

Instead of placing a note in a separate notebook, create a tag and attach it to the note. For example, instead of a notebook, "Food for the weekend," you can create a tag "Weekend" and attach it to all notes that are somehow related to the output.

Plus the fact that even after you have marked all the dishes that can be prepared at the weekend, the tag "Weekend", some of them you can mark the tag "sweet", while others - "Baking." At the same time the tag "Output" you can mark a list of movies that you can revise in your spare time, or a note to mention a cool cafe that had long been planning to look.

On notebooks it will not work. You can not stick a note in three different notebook and copy it back and forth even worse - so you will get stuck, and disk space will end quickly.

Step 3. organize tags

With notebooks you can do is not so much - to combine several notebooks in one collection, that's all. A tagged, you can build a hierarchy, distributing them in the order you want.

For example, you can create the following hierarchy: description, information projects (do not forget that automatically tags distributed in alphabetical order, and that they are lined up in the order that you want, it is necessary to use a point and hashtags).

In the category tag "DISCLOSURE" are all tags associated with the contents of the note. For example, if there are references to people - you can use the tag "People", if stored in the note Information on blogs and sites - suitable tag "Resources", if the information about the visual content - "Images".

The next group of tags ".Navyki" includes tags that are associated with different areas of activity. If in the first group are the tags associated with the contents of the notes are stored in the second tag indicating the specific area.

For example, there may be a tag of "Marketing" or "Meditation" or "Running". As a result, if you found a cool resource on which a lot of information for the runners, celebrating its tags "Resource" from the category "DISCLOSURE" and the tag "Running" from the category ".Navyki".

The third category of tags can be called ".The project" and to tag in this category all the notes that apply to your work matters. You can insert tags - the names of projects to precisely avoid confusion, for example, "Layfhaker", "thing", and others. These tags will be assigned to absolutely any note you want to somehow relate to this project.

Now imagine that I should find a text for an infographic about the race, which will be published on Layfhakere. I can find this note on several tags: "Images" from the "DISCLOSURE", "Run" from the ".Navykov" and "Layfhaker" from ".The project".

Tag distribution will not take much of your time, and then you can easily fill your Evernote hundreds of different notes and quickly find them.

And you use the tag system to Evernote?