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I've been using the merge notes for a long time.

Typically a forwarded email, usually a customer request of some kind.

And any notes that I've taken separately relating to that request.

Once completed, I merge all the notes together and arrange them in an order that makes sense to me. It's just nice to have everything to do with a specific request all in one spot for reference.

I've tried tables in the past but always got pretty frustrated working with them. Maybe I'll give it another go.

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That's a good idea. I hadn't thought of combining customer support type requests.

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Like others, I've been using the Merge feature for quite some time. It's so useful if you've got a note on a subject, then find something on the web relating to it that you capture with the web clipper, and then you receive an email about it that you forward into EN - you can then merge them all into one note. And you can use the /table of contents feature to create a ToC based in the individual note headers.

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Nice idea. Very useful. Glad the TOC is working as I've not tried that yet.

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So far, I am still learning - I merge an invoice with its payment receipt and keep them in a dated Note in my 'Receipts' Notebook. They'll be deleted in a year, or seven years, depending on legal requirements.

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Nice. I should do that as well as I keep mine separate right now.

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Merging is great 👍- but has a small problem if you have defined links to the source notes: If the merge operation deletes these, all already defined links (within other notes) will lead to Nirwana 😤.

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I never have any links in notes I merge. Are you saying merging deletes internal note links? I'll try it later.

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Merging and deleting the merge-sources means that links to these formerly standalone-notes point to nowhere. If you click on such a link, either nothing happens or any other note is displayed.

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Is there a standalone note? Does the merged note become a new one? Interested in the workflow about changing the note links to the merged note or just removing them altogether?

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Merging notes is something Evernote does really well. I tend to make a lot of individual notes on a topic and then later I keep the most important notes as separate notes and then merge the others into a single note to keep things tidy, adding note links to the merged note so everything's easily to hand.

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Nice idea. Not tried it but a table of contents block at the top of a bunch of merged notes might help quickly navigate through them. Will try that later.

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