nested folders?

[bart...@gmail.com]

Is it possible to nest folders, ie create (sub)folders in folders, preferably at least three levels deep?  From what I've tried this is not possible now, but will this feature be added in the near future?

[sup...@clevernote.co]

The short answer is "no" :-)

The longer answer is ...

There are a couple of reasons why we decided against multi-level folders. The first is that we couldn't find a visual representation that didn't end up burying notes such that they became hard to find. Secondly, we wanted to be portable to a variety of back-end storage services. Google Drive supports nested folders, but there may be a future service that we need to support that does not.

To compensate for the lack of nested folders, we are focussing on tags and virtual folders as a mechanism by which users can construct a taxonomy to precisely suit their needs. So for example, if you search on "tag:foo" (or "#foo" as a shorthand), we construct a virtual folder called "tag:foo" containing the results which then behaves like a folder. Also, currently in staging at http://foo.clever-note.appspot.com, we have implemented a Kanban view (think "Trello"), which provides a drag and drop mechanism for organising notes by tags.

I hope this gives you the tools you need. If not, please let us know a bit more about your use case and we'll look into what additional tools we can add.

[cstru...@gmail.com]

Ditto here. Tags are not as useful as nested folders. It is impossible to create a large knowledge base without a proper hierarchy or tree structure. Even a good search function does not help, because sometimes one needs to search for something without remembering the name/title, but if it is well structured in a hierarchy it is always possible to track it down. My Evernote collection of notes is becoming unmanageable for the same reason. 

Carel