Thread by @fortelabs

1/ If you click on the name of a stack in the sidebar in Evernote like this...

2/ Then it will show ALL the notes from ALL the notebooks in that stack in the "list view" like this...

3/ and if you then select all (cmd-a on Mac) it will show how many notes are selected in the note pane here

4/ If you do this for each PARA stack, you can know how many notes are at each "level of actionability." For me:

Projects (highly actionable): 258 (5%)
Areas (medium actionability): 634 (12%)
Resources (low actionability): 2,234 (42%)
Archives (not actionable): 2,217 (42%)

5/ Comparing this to my task manager, I have this many tasks at each priority level (600 total):

High: 17 (2.8%)
Medium: 99 (16.5%)
Low: 258 (43%)
Someday: 226 (37.6%)

6/ So I have relatively fewer tasks at the top priority level, compared to actionable notes, which makes sense. Those notes are "project support" material designed to keep things off my mind, so I can focus on that tiny minority of highest priority tasks

7/ Because I have the exact same projects and areas across platforms, I can also say that for every project or area (49 total) I have on average 12 tasks and 18.2 notes

8/ Also, I have 18.4 notes per project notebook, 24.4 notes per area, 26.6 notes per resource, and 16.5 notes per archive. Makes sense, since projects are constantly being stored away in archives, whereas areas and resources stick around longer and have more time to accumulate