![]() ![]() I limit my tagging to people, or standing meeting names, so that when I turn up my agendas notebook for example, I can quickly attend to the matter at hand and have all the contextual information right there. My stacks/notebooks structure includes numbering to ensure the appropriate hierarchy. My GTD notebooks are in my shortcuts for easy access and to give prominence. ![]() Alternatively, by using the Cronofy Evernote connector or Taskclone, reminders can be sent to any calendar. ![]() Outlook provides the added capability of linking an Evernote reminder to the Outlook calendar. ![]() For email, I use outlook, which integrates well with Evernote to the extent that I can direct an email, (and even tag it) to a specific gtd notebook or reference notebook (Spark email is also very good). Evernote is a powerful tool to capture information inflows which come via many pathways. Following my review, I move notes to the appropriate GTD notebook, my reference notebook, or apply an evernote reminder which automatcally makes a calendar entry. I review my GTD notebooks regularly but no less than once daily. I use “GTD” to prefix my notebooks and stacks to highlight a call for energy and action. I integrate a couple of other apps for projects that may need to be done collaboratively with others or that need a tactical framework. The link that follows is to a very considered blog on the subject:Īfter years of trying the more popular task management apps, I have settled on an approach based on David Allen’s GTD and which makes use of Evernote’s built in task management functionality. To me this adds complication and drives unnatural ways of connecting our brains to information. Some of the approaches that I have studied (including one known as “ The Secret Weapon” or “TSW”) make extensive use of tagging. With my background in project management, I recognise that teams need to collaborate effectively, in realtime, with granularity and have access to contextual data. The result often is an app with an incredible UI, that tries to serve too many masters.Īdditionally, the task management apps take on a dynamic that resembles a gaming experience, which in my honest opinion, only reduces productivity by the obsession and complication that it creates.įor me, Evernote, which I like to think of as my second brain, is my go to system. In doing so, the developers have an unenviable challenge as they try and cater for consumers all with varying needs from a simple to do list to a system resembling a project management system. Most of the applications that seem to have flooded the market have leveraged off this GTD workflow and the ever increasing focus towards productivity to market themselves as the best new shiny solution. I say “natural” because most productive people have always been inclined to have an approach that included many of the principles of gtd. It has also given rise to countless applications, some of which integrate with Evernote to varying degrees.ĭavid Allens book was inspired in the way it succinctly expressed a natural workflow and how if applied with diligence can lead to high creativity and productivity. The book “Getting Things Done” or as it is often referred to “GTD”, by David Allen has motivated many to become better organised. ![]()
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