Noolingo provides two ways to organize your notes: notebooks and tags. These two methods have their own characteristics, and using them together can help you manage knowledge more efficiently.
Notebooks are the core way to organize notes in Noolingo. This design is inspired by Anki's deck concept but is more suitable for learning scenarios.
Many learning contents aren't suitable for tree structures. For example, words, formulas, and concepts you want to memorize are better suited to being laid out flat in a list. Notebooks are designed for this: you can put related notes in the same notebook, freely sort them, and manage them uniformly, reducing organizational burden.
Notebook Functions
Notebooks not only organize content but also uniformly manage learning strategies:
Unified Review Frequency Settings: You can set review frequency at the notebook level, choosing from five different levels, allowing different types of knowledge to have different review rhythms.
Batch Learning Plan Adjustments: If you need to adjust a notebook's learning plan, you can do it in batches without modifying item by item.
Unified Archive Status Management: When you complete learning a topic or temporarily don't need to review certain content, you can archive the entire notebook.
Unified Sharing and Export: Easily share entire notebooks or export them in specific formats.
Archive Feature
When you archive a notebook, all notes in that notebook will no longer appear in the study queue. This is very useful for completed learning content or content that doesn't need review temporarily. Archived notebooks can be restored anytime, and your learning records won't be lost.
Tags are another organizational method. Their biggest characteristic is being cross-notebook. A note can have multiple tags, letting you organize content from different angles.
Tag Uses
Quick Content Filtering: No matter which notebook a note is in, you can quickly find it through tags. For example, if you tag all chemistry-related notes with "Chemistry," you can quickly view all chemistry content.
Chapter Division: Within the same notebook, you can use tags to divide chapters. For example, in a "History" notebook, you can use tags like "Ancient History" and "Modern History" for subdivision.
Multi-Dimensional Classification: A note can have multiple tags simultaneously, achieving multi-dimensional classification. For example, a note about "Metal Elements" can have tags like "Chemistry," "Periodic Table," and "Metals" - you can find it from any angle.
Precise Filtering: Noolingo supports filtering tags within notebooks, meaning you can find notes that satisfy multiple conditions simultaneously. For example, finding all content in the "Chemistry" notebook that has the "Metal Elements" tag.
Notebooks and tags each have advantages. You can choose based on your needs:
When to Use Notebooks: Use notebooks when you need to group content for study or need unified learning strategy management. For example, "English Words," "Math Formulas," "Historical Events" can each become a notebook.
When to Use Tags: Use tags when you need to organize content across notebooks or need multi-dimensional classification. For example, status tags like "Important," "Easy to Forget," "Under Review" can be applied to all notebooks.
Combined Use: The best approach is to combine both. Use notebooks to divide large knowledge domains, and use tags to achieve finer classification and status management. This maintains clear hierarchy while allowing flexible organization and search.
When starting out, you don't need to over-organize. Just create a few notebooks by major themes and put your notes in them. As content grows, add tags as needed.
Remember, organizational methods are meant to help you learn more efficiently, not to organize for organizing's sake. If simple notebooks and tags are enough, you don't need a complex classification system.
Noolingo's notebook and tag design aims to let you easily manage knowledge, spending more time learning rather than organizing.