I had a brief play with spaces when they first came out, but for me it's another layer of complexity that doesn't offer any benefits. Heck, I've only got one stack. Still, nice that more and more features are coming to Evernote.
Jon- Thanks so much for your support and guidance. I had read the Evernote guidance before I watched your video and I still am trying to figure out how and if I can address my biggest issue with Stacks and Spaces (maybe). When one clicks on the Stacks icon from the sidebar, one gets a list of all notes in the stack irrespective of which notebook that they are associated with. There is no quick way to determine note groupings from this view. When one clicks on spaces in the sidebar you immediately see the notebooks that have been included in the space and can easily identify which notes are associated with each notebook. To me, this is a huge improvement. The Spaces functionality seems to eliminate the need for stacks. Am I missing something in my analysis? Is there some functionality inherent in Stacks that I am missing?
They are very similar but you can have notebooks from different stacks in a space and notes only in a space which is different plus you can share a whole space including its contents.
I tend to see spaces more as a view and an organisation tool and I don't use a lot of them. I have two.
Spaces certainly have extra features compared to stacks. But do stacks offer any advanatages over spaces? I can't think of any. If not, one can think of spaces as simply improved stacks.
I thus wonder if 'mere' stacks will be eliminated at some point.
But even though apparently offering no advantages over spaces, keeping stacks does allow users to organize their notebooks by more than one way. Because, while notebooks can appear in only one stack and notebooks can appear in only one space, notebooks can appear separately in a stack and in a space. So if you'd find it useful to access your notebooks through a second organizing paradigm, you can. Just use stacks for one paradigm and spaces for the other.
It might not matter whether you assign a given organizing paradigm to stacks or spaces. But it might! One paradigm might be able to make greater use of the extra functionality of spaces.
Yeah, I need to sit down and take the time to really see if using spaces can do anything for me. I am an OLD PC guy (first PC we owned as a couple was a 286 or 386 and first OS was on the tail end of MS-DOS 3.3...) so I am really, really married to the files/folders/cabinets kinda hierarchy....so when they introduced stacks to EN, I was like YEAH! I don't know that I could work any other way...although EN with its bomb search power has had me tempted to just throw ALL my notes into one big notebook and see what it could do... :-)
Stacks are staying. There's talk of being able to add stacks of notebooks to a space in the future which may please some folk.
I don't find them 100% useful and only have 2 spaces but the ones I have are very useful mainly for controlling lots and lots of pins and notebooks from multiple stacks.
A major limitation/glitch I've discovered with spaces is that search operators don't work when searching in a space. As expected, searching for 'intitle:book' within a stack generates a list of all notes in the stack with the word 'book' in it. But searching for 'intitle:book' within a space just generates an empty set. (Searching for simply 'book' works in both stacks and spaces as expected.) I sure hope this gets fixed fast.
I had a brief play with spaces when they first came out, but for me it's another layer of complexity that doesn't offer any benefits. Heck, I've only got one stack. Still, nice that more and more features are coming to Evernote.
I've heard that quite a lot and if itys not useful... I don't use tags!
Jon- Thanks so much for your support and guidance. I had read the Evernote guidance before I watched your video and I still am trying to figure out how and if I can address my biggest issue with Stacks and Spaces (maybe). When one clicks on the Stacks icon from the sidebar, one gets a list of all notes in the stack irrespective of which notebook that they are associated with. There is no quick way to determine note groupings from this view. When one clicks on spaces in the sidebar you immediately see the notebooks that have been included in the space and can easily identify which notes are associated with each notebook. To me, this is a huge improvement. The Spaces functionality seems to eliminate the need for stacks. Am I missing something in my analysis? Is there some functionality inherent in Stacks that I am missing?
They are very similar but you can have notebooks from different stacks in a space and notes only in a space which is different plus you can share a whole space including its contents.
I tend to see spaces more as a view and an organisation tool and I don't use a lot of them. I have two.
Stacks are not going anywhere.
A gentle reminder to please post the link to the Evernote webpage on this topic. Thanks!
Thanks... here's the link to the post:
https://evernote.com/blog/spaces-stacks-notebooks
Thank you Jon, as always.
Spaces certainly have extra features compared to stacks. But do stacks offer any advanatages over spaces? I can't think of any. If not, one can think of spaces as simply improved stacks.
I thus wonder if 'mere' stacks will be eliminated at some point.
But even though apparently offering no advantages over spaces, keeping stacks does allow users to organize their notebooks by more than one way. Because, while notebooks can appear in only one stack and notebooks can appear in only one space, notebooks can appear separately in a stack and in a space. So if you'd find it useful to access your notebooks through a second organizing paradigm, you can. Just use stacks for one paradigm and spaces for the other.
It might not matter whether you assign a given organizing paradigm to stacks or spaces. But it might! One paradigm might be able to make greater use of the extra functionality of spaces.
Yeah, I need to sit down and take the time to really see if using spaces can do anything for me. I am an OLD PC guy (first PC we owned as a couple was a 286 or 386 and first OS was on the tail end of MS-DOS 3.3...) so I am really, really married to the files/folders/cabinets kinda hierarchy....so when they introduced stacks to EN, I was like YEAH! I don't know that I could work any other way...although EN with its bomb search power has had me tempted to just throw ALL my notes into one big notebook and see what it could do... :-)
Chucking everything in one notebook sounds brave :) Not sure I'm ready for that yet.
Thanks for the support Eric. Much appreciated.
Stacks are staying. There's talk of being able to add stacks of notebooks to a space in the future which may please some folk.
I don't find them 100% useful and only have 2 spaces but the ones I have are very useful mainly for controlling lots and lots of pins and notebooks from multiple stacks.
A major limitation/glitch I've discovered with spaces is that search operators don't work when searching in a space. As expected, searching for 'intitle:book' within a stack generates a list of all notes in the stack with the word 'book' in it. But searching for 'intitle:book' within a space just generates an empty set. (Searching for simply 'book' works in both stacks and spaces as expected.) I sure hope this gets fixed fast.