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Quick Tip: Create a Table of Contents Using Note Links

Tips + Guides | By Kasey Fleisher Hickey
 


Note Links allow you to associate your notes with each other, helping you create a customized organization structure inside your Evernote account. You can learn more about using Note Links by reading this blog post.

Note Links are great for linking together different pieces of travel-related information like itineraries, articles and passport photos, as well as organizing project elements and class research. One of the coolest things you can do with Note Links is create a table of contents for a set of notes inside of a notebook. This is particularly useful if you are sharing a notebook with other individuals.

To do this:

  1. Grab the Note Link to a note by right-clicking on the note and selecting to Copy Note Link.
  2. Create a New Note in your notebook or go to a note where you’d like that Note Link to go.
  3. Paste the link (it will show up as the hyperlinked title of your note) into your New Note or existing note.
  4. Do this for all other notes you’d like to include in your table of contents, putting them in the order that you’d like people to look through the notebook.

You can perform this as a batch action, too. Select multiple notes, right click and then add them to your new or existing note.

Are you using Note Links? Share your tips in the comments!

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  • German

    Estaría muy bueno que pongan algo en español, así no tengo que estar traduciendo todo lo que sale en el muro!

  • http://www.about.me/teamdave dave™

    dont forget you can create directories by using note links with images as well!
    http://elektricforest.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/visual-note-linking-in-evernote/

  • http://www.stalbantorzahnarzt.ch zahnmedizin basel

    wow nice table

  • http://TheProductiveDad.com Dean Ouellette

    When I first tried this, this is the thing that changed Evernote for me forever in business. In my client transactions I can now add in contracts and notes and emails and then link them all to the one main note I have for each client. This is gold!

  • Andy Dent

    You can also add these links just like normal links, applied to some text you’ve already written.

    I do this sometimes as a transformational thing – I’ll grab a bunch of links of stuff I’m interested in and put them in a note. Later I review them and probably save about half as clipped Evernote pages. I can then go back to my original index and change the original URL links to the Note Links, just with the Edit Link command as if I was correcting a URL.

    The only slightly bizarre aspect to this is that setting note links as a link like this will colour them the blue of normal URLs, rather than the green if you paste the link as in the article.

  • http://www.chosenfast.org James Freeman

    How do I right click with my IPhone? I am a new user & hope to be able to use the Table of Comtents feature from my phone.

  • jbenson2

    Notice: This Note Link feature has a bug and does not work on some Windows computers.

    April 10 – email response from Evernote Support:

    “I see there is a bug on file for this – I’m sorry to say we currently don’t have an update for you at this time. Thank you for reporting the issue, and we hope that it will be fixed in an upcoming release.”

    http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/25148-printing-list-of-note-titles/page__view__findpost__p__133264

  • http://therobbrennan.com Rob Brennan

    Thats so cool! I consider myself a fairly knowledgable Evernote user, and didn’t even know that existed. Thanks for sharing. I have a number of ways that I could incorporate that.

  • eboyle

    Just to echo a couple of the other comments, I tend to use my iPad a lot to get myself organized, but right now I don’t have a way of getting a note link from the native iPad app. That means when I’m updating my To-Do’s, I have to go back to my laptop to include a reference to Evernote. (ugggh I can’t believe you just made me get off the couch…) ;)

    Might be a nice feature to add in the future. Thanks!

  • http://www.umb.edu Christian

    I love wikis, and Evernote is a great compromise between the power of a wiki and the utility of a highly searchable data store that exists both locally and in the cloud.

    The note links feature moves Evernote a bit closer to wikidom, and I hope we’ll someday have faster hyperlinking and automatic TOC widgets that list all pages with a certain tag, etc.

    In the meantime, this is a great tip.

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