I Gave Up Evernote Notebooks: Can Search REALLY Replace Them? 

There is no best way for everyone. My way after 15 years of EN: one notebook for personal, one for work. I make a notebook for each new project just so I can see all the notes at one glance (and the project master note pinned to the top). These get archived when the project is over. I use tags religiously and also use search grammar in my saved searches. I was anti-notebook for some but now if I know I need to see multiple notes again and again, a notebook is quicker than clicking a saved search each time.

I always come back to Evernote because of the web clipper, the EN email address, the search function with tags (better that notebooks) but I still miss the presentation mode. Not happy that they abandoned it years ago

I tried doing this a few months ago, but got scared, and reverted back to my usual system. However after watching your video I am going to give it another go. The idea of using tags as a recovery method is good. I also intend to spend time improving my search methods.

I've tried to leave Evernote several times, but I came back and in a short time I was immersed in a very good flow and with a feeling of productivity lol. I'm liking the new innovations, everything is very recent, but I would like some things, for example, the widgets back and new widgets, another thing is the mobile home edition, and a more important role for PDFs in the app, the current edition has features very good arrows but you can't zoom without breaking the app, on mobile it doesn't even work properly, so editing can be improved with a close-up view of the PDF editing sideways (open the PDF on the side), or a new app to open the pdf and that the edits are saved in the app, I need more of this on mobile, I hope they focus on this part

I use 4 notebooks. INBOX (DEFAULT) GTD (NEXT ACTIONS) REFERENCE SOME DAY MAYBE In my opinion, if you don't follow a method, it's virtually imposible to have a sustainable system ready an up to date. Thus a mees of a system can get updated an current if you dedicate some time every week. Always around a system that resonates with you.

I like the ideia. But moving those legacy notes on the "new" Evernote is painful. Selecting 100 notes at a time was a really bad move by Evernote (let alone 50 at a time as in the beginning). There's no way to automate anything. Can you imagine moving 6 thousand notes between notebooks? Crazy!

I think the AI search is pretty good!

I gave up on Evernote entirely because of that pricing 😂😂

I've been using Evernote for at least 10 years. I stopped notebooks years ago. I use tags for everything.

It's pathetic that decades after Evernote was initially developed, thought leaders and users alike still struggle to organize their notes! Come on, Evernote… give us unlimited notebook (folder) nesting! And develop a way to mirror notebooks into other stacks, as is available in Workflowy.