Ninety-nine percent of the time, Evernote is updated and available wherever I sit down to use it.īefore I dive into the nitty gritty of how I use Evernote for task management, a few words on the principals that this process is anchored on:Ī concept popularized by management guru David Allen in his “Getting Things Done” system, the goal is to empty all inboxes each day of new messages and put them into a system. During the course of the day, I probably work on two different MacBooks, one iMac, one iPad and one iPhone. Evernote is fully available on almost any device.Getting information into Evernote is easy, fast and almost universal.So why would we use Evernote, when it’s not really built for task management, as a task management tool? Two main reasons: There have been lots of implementations of Evernote as a task management tool and, even though it’s not purpose-built to handle task management, it’s flexible enough to work within that context. The note-taking tool Evernote is considered by many to be the best software out there for recording notes, bookmarks, articles and all the other digital ephemera of our connected lives. I eventually committed to using Evernote to define my own workflow, and though I’m still refining the implementation, I’ve a simple process I’d like to share.

I’ve tried almost all of them, and maybe one day I’ll write about why each one didn’t take, but for the moment, I’d rather forget those years of being lost in the task management wilderness.

With many moving pieces and lots of projects going all the time in my life, I’ve struggled to find a task management app that really fits with my workflow and doesn’t overcomplicate things. By Jefferson Stovall on Februin Advice, Evernote, Productivity, Technology 3

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