It would be really useful to be able to drag notes around in the notebook to make a custom sort. Within a notebook, there are only 3 ways to sort note: by title, date updated, or date created. I imagine that you can save boards and make shortcuts to boards just as you can do for most other objects in Evernote. Since you are only pulling the alias of the note, the original is safe and sound in its notebook.Ī note board would serve the purpose of taking index cards and arranging in some useful manner to you. You can pull notes from multiple notebooks. A note board would allow you to pull not e aliases onto a board and arrange them any way you like. Not only that, you are limited to how those notes can be sorted within the notebook. If you think of notes as cards, then you can think of a note board as a surface on which you can arrange you notes however you like. One thing I’ve often wanted to be able to do is take notes and organize them in ways that are meaningful to me. One of the views in Evernote lets you look at notes in “card” view. How might this be useful? Well, it would be really useful if Evernote coupled it with a… Note board You can also make a shortcut to a note, but there isn’t much you can do with it aside from putting it into a shortcut list. You could always make a copy of the note, but that isn’t the same thing because updating the copy doesn’t change the original and vice versa. The alias points to the original so any changes you make change the original and the results are reflected in any alias. If a note exists in your School notebook, and you want it to also appear in your Commonplace notebook, you could create an alias to the note in the latter notebook. Imagine being able to create an alias for any note. This would be incredibly useful in Evernote. The nice thing about this feature is that a file can appear in many places, even though there is only a single copy.
Most operating systems have a mechanism for aliasing a file.
If anyone at Evernote is reading, feel free to take these ideas.
As I’ve played around with it, a few more feature suggestions have occurred to me, and I thought I’d share them here. Since then, I’ve been playing around with the new Evernote, trying to drum up some of my original enthusiasm for the tools. This, I thought, would be useful in determining whether a note is worth keeping around.
Not long ago, I suggested a feature for Evernote that would capture the last time a note was viewed.