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MosesGTC Posted August 20, 2018 

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I am wondering how, if there is a way to display random notes?

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Like many users here, we have many notes, I wonder if there is a
way to display random notes, so to just trigger serendipity
moments:)? 

 
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Moses 

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Hi.  Short answer - no.  If you can nd some other software to pull
up a note,  the actual notes can be held in Evernote,  with the
timing coming from elsewhere...  we had a discussion a while ago ×
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about "Spaced repetition" which is based on the theory that once

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something is learned,  we instantly begin to forget it.  Over a ×
period of time the knowledge fades until we would have to
completely relearn it.  Research appears to show that if you
reinforce the orginal learned material by revision after a short
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something based on the related software...

There's software to help you manage learning with this process, 

and Evernote is involved to a degree - store your notes in Evernote
and use external software to retrieve those notes as and when
required.  

Evernote doesn't have a diary system as such,  and EN reminders

are one per note,  so the repeated learning effect might be di cult
to manage.

This discussion in the forums covers the subject in detail -

Wired on Peter Wozniak (who apparently invented this) -

http://archive.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-
05/ff_wozniak

Flashcard software to help study -

https://www.studyblue.com/evernote

Software designed to use the spaced repetition method

- http://help.supermemo.org/wiki/SuperMemo_Screenshot_Tour
- http://www.revunote.com -  & see revunote (Android)
- https://github.com/catgsmith/alfred-reminders
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TK0047 Posted August 20, 2018 

 On 8/20/2018 at 7:04 AM, MosesGTC said: 

Hi, 

Level 4 I am wondering how, if there is a way to display random

notes?

Like many users here, we have many notes, I wonder if there

 211 is a way to display random notes, so to just trigger serendipity
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Best regards

Moses 

I would love to have something like this too.Discovering a note

that you completely forgot is fun, sometimes powerful and can
lead to new ideas. I wish the notes were numbered, so at least I
could generate a random number in Excel and go to that note.
Even that would work.

To generate something close to this, I select ALL NOTES view and

scroll to a random location to see the notes in that section. Or
select different arbitrary tags from the tag view to see what it
would generate. But of course, it is not as random as it could be
when you are selecting the scroll location or the tags since
subconsciously I would make choices without even noticing. 

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Level 5 How about scripting to select a random note from the list.  I could
do this on my Mac.
I'd use a "random thoughts" tag to limit the list to my
inspirational/serendipity notes.
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TK0047 Posted August 20, 2018 

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How about scripting to select a random note from the list.  I

could do it on my Mac.
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I'd use a "random thoughts" tag to limit the list to my
inspirational/serendipity notes.

 211 I would love to. But I use Windows at work. Mac is at home for
573 posts personal use. Thinking about it, I should give it a try at home. I
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know you have shared some of your scripts in a topic before, is
that one of those you shared?

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I would love to. But I use Windows at work. Mac is at home

for personal use. Thinking about it, I should give it a try at
home. I know you have shared some of your scripts in a topic
Level 5 before, is that one of those you shared?

Here's a script example using AppleScript

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CalS Posted August 20, 2018 

 On 8/20/2018 at 1:15 PM, TK0047 said: 

I would love to have something like this too.Discovering a

note that you completely forgot is fun, sometimes powerful
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and can lead to new ideas. I wish the notes were numbered,
so at least I could generate a random number in Excel and go
to that note. Even that would work.

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To generate something close to this, I select ALL NOTES view
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section. Or select different arbitrary tags from the tag view to
see what it would generate. But of course, it is not as random
as it could be when you are selecting the scroll location or the
tags since subconsciously I would make choices without
even noticing. 

Could try a -created:yyyymmdd search.  Not as random as a

generator, but kinda. 

I did a -created:20150820 search and found an email from

someone I have not had contact with in too long, not then exactly,
but in the last year.  Interesting.  Phone call to make today!

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Could try a -created:yyyymmdd search.  Not as random as a

generator, but kinda. 
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CalS Posted August 20, 2018 

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That works; maybe "-created:day-nnn" to avoid having to come

up with an actual date
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Good idea.  I used the actual date so I could see what was going
on three years ago.
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Thierry G Posted February 21 

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I see Forte Labs have just released a free web tool called
RandomNote. I just tried it and it does exactly what it says on the
tin: after connecting it to your Evernote account it displays one
random note at a time. Press refresh to get a new random note.
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Repeat at will. https://evernote-random.glitch.me/

Background info: https://praxis.fortelabs.co/randomnote-web/

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