![]() If I want to make really sure I read something, I’ll tag it with and move it from the Reference notebook to Actions. ![]() I scan through the “Idea Box” tag often, looking for twoĭisparate ideas that click together in interesting ways. Say, I can tag it with “Idea Box,” remove “Reading Material” and it’sįiled. Reading an article I think might be useful for a story down the road, Material.” This is my poor man’s Pinboard, except that when I’m done New note in Evernote, in the Reference notebook and tagged with “Reading I favorite a tweet on Twitter, an IFTTT recipe kicks in that creates a But in a lot of cases, this is done for me. With those and their subtags, I can tag every note with whatever Mixed bag, but they cover all the major topics and areas of focus in my Many of them have subtags of their own, which I’m not also have the following top level tags (at the same level asĬontexts).Under tags, I have a tag called Contexts, which the following sub-tags: This setup is also heavily reliant on tags, which I was already using. Seven notebooks instead of three, but still much simpler than my old setup. Notebooks, but not as many as they suggested. Start, but unnecessarily complex, #turnsout. Official Evernote GTD system from the David Allen Company is a good So much so that I started wondering what else IĬould do with these notes that could suddenly be so many places at once My Inbox and Trash notebooks, comprised my entire Evernote database. Notebooks, tagged the notes in those notebooks appropriately, and movedĪll my notes into a single notebook called Reference. So I thought, “Maybe this will work.” I created tags for all my existing Wilderness, I’d liked the simplicity of tags in Simplenote and Vesper, In my wandering through the Evernote-free ![]() I was on OmniFocus and actually enjoying it when I returned toĮvernote from OneNote for my note taking (long story) and I saw this article about the right way to use Evernote.īasically, it describes an Evernote database with only three notebooksĪnd a hierarchy of tags. Time, I bounced from iCloud Reminders to Todoist, to OmniFocus andīack. Most of them required complicated hierarchies of tags and notebooks, and I felt like I’d be spending far more time implementing the system than actually, you know, doing stuff. I’ve seen lots of implementations of GTD on Evernote over the years, but they all seemed too fiddly, including the official one from David Allen. ![]()
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