
Tags are descriptive words or phrases that will help you search for or group items later on. Tags give you another level of organization that works across notes. Use tags for more comprehensive organization You have to think about what will work for you and how you are going to be using Evernote. Some people advocate that you should only have one or two notebooks and organize everything with tags, but I think that is taking minimalism too far. The good news is that it is very easy to move notes from one notebook to another and to eliminate notebooks that are no longer needed. I currently have 81 notebooks 26 have fewer than 10 notes each. I think that most people (and I’m one of them) start out with too many notebooks. You are only allowed to have 250 notebooks and a note can only be in one notebook at a time. For example, I have various notebooks for my business, notebooks for volunteer organizations and hobbies, and notebooks for health, finances, house, etc.

You might set up your notebooks by projects, by interests, by areas of your life, etc. A notebook in Evernote is simply a method of storing notes in a logical way. Just like you might keep papers in a notebook and have various notebooks assigned to different topics in a physical sense, you can also organize your notes into notebooks within Evernote.

We’ll also talk about Shortcuts because I think they are essential. Notebooks, tags, and notebook stacks are the main ways to organize your notes in Evernote. Evernote has several organizational features built in that will help you stay on top of your notes. I’ve seen people say online that they don’t like Evernote because of its “lack of organization capabilities.” And I just don’t get that. Evernote’s Built-In Organizational Features
