Q: “Creating a set of useful tags assumes that in the future you will want to extract data based upon those tags. Since in many cases you don’t have the data yet, and can’t know what you want to retrieve (kind of a “Back to the Future” scenario), do you have any suggestions on specific tags? Here are a couple I’m thinking of using and I’d appreciate your opinion: Census year - Birth year – Death year – Civil Records – Church Records.”Ī: Yes, I provide a list on my Evernote for Genealogists quick reference guide (out of print) that follows along the lines you are already going (focusing on record types). Here’s our Q & A on using Evernote for family history: I’m following many of your suggestions, but have a few questions.” “I watched on Evernote twice and I am now a Premium user thanks to the video. “Thank you for ‘reinvigorating’ my interest in my family history,” he says. I am glad that I was tagging my notes all over the place, so once I went through and organized my tags, whole lot of them made a lot of sense.Recently Richard wrote in with great questions on using Evernote for family history. Every time when you don’t have something important to do, and want to take a break, make a moment to go through a couple of tags, delete those that you don’t use etc… Tags can be the bread and butter of your Evernote account. It’s something that need to happen occassionally. This method works way better than deleting all the tags and than retagging them all over.
So double clicking the tags name, allowed me to immediately change the name of the tag and from there move it to the top instantly. Scrolling up and down through hundreds of tags was dountaing task, and not a pretty one either. Now once I pulled all the important tags to the top, I started sorting out without scrolling up and down.
If you want to make sure that the item is going to be the first on the list, just use “!!”. Symbols are increadibly important in daily Evernote use! If you want something to be on top, be it notebook or a tag, you just add “!” and it’s right there at the top. It was awfully hard to scroll up and down, so I used to “!” (exclamation mark) to mark every important note and take it to the top, where all of my important tags resided. Now instead of devoting more than 2 hours of organizing tags, I wanted to make the sense of what’s important and what’s not. I was avoiding switching altogether, because it didn’t feel comfortable to go through the tag hell. Apart of some notebooks used to collaboratively share with my coworkers and friends, majority of notebooks can be replaced with simple tags. Why? Because the notebooks that I actually use the most are next 2:Īll the rest of the notebooks can perform as the tags more or less. I am going to take the same approach now! I still kept the notebooks for organizing purposes, but they are becoming the second class citizen. All the GTD tags were put at the top, and I didn’t pay any attention whatsoever at what’s happening at the bottom. I knew it’s benefits while I was using Evernote for GTD. If I don’t have the need to tag something twice, I don’t need that tag in the first place! If I saw the huge number of tags that were tagging only one note, I would simply delete them. So what is the basic premise behind organizing your tags? Well what do you want to use the tags for in the first place? While I was going through them, I figured that large number of tags I used only once. Sneak Peek into my notebooks and tags (and OmniFocus on the left) If it wasn’t for search I wouldn’t make any sense out of my 1500+ notes. It’s just messy place, that I didn’t clean up in a while. I have awful lot of tags! When I say awful, I mean, I can’t even count them! They are nowhere near being organized even now. I am still using Notebooks to organize my notes, but tags are way more useful. I never paid strict attention to tags, but as my Notebooks became to small for my needs, I was urged to move forward with tags.
For past hour and a half I was going through my tag horrors.
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