You could always make a copy of the note, but that isn’t the same thing because updating the copy doesn’t change the original and vice versa.

The alias points to the original so any changes you make change the original and the results are reflected in any alias. If a note exists in your School notebook, and you want it to also appear in your Commonplace notebook, you could create an alias to the note in the latter notebook. Imagine being able to create an alias for any note. This would be incredibly useful in Evernote. The nice thing about this feature is that a file can appear in many places, even though there is only a single copy. Most operating systems have a mechanism for aliasing a file. If anyone at Evernote is reading, feel free to take these ideas. As I’ve played around with it, a few more feature suggestions have occurred to me, and I thought I’d share them here.

Since then, I’ve been playing around with the new Evernote, trying to drum up some of my original enthusiasm for the tools. This, I thought, would be useful in determining whether a note is worth keeping around. Not long ago, I suggested a feature for Evernote that would capture the last time a note was viewed.

Skitch replacement for evernote