I've been reading "
Getting Things Done" by
David Allen and as a result been spending some time putting together a system to help get organized and more productive. Previously, I had blogged a comparison between OneNote and
Evernote and the latter has won for gathering memos, emails, etc. that need to be acted on (trash anything else). Also found some good references on how to utilize Evernote (tags, notebooks), like
The Secret Weapon. It's a good start, but still looking for more of a system to put notes, tasks and projects together.
Turns out that there are lots of different GTD systems out there, but I only looked at ZenDone and
Nozbe in depth. Both integrate with Evernote, but in different ways. The difference was why I choose Nozbe for my Task/Project manager.
So, two pieces of the puzzle ... then I added in
If This Then That to funnel things to Evernote by doing one of these:
- Star an email in Gmail
- Label an email in Gmail
- Favorite a Tweet
Next step was to get actionable items from Evernote over into Nozbe. That's where another part of the integration came into play. One thing I could do was set a reminder on the note and that would get it over to the Nozbe inbox. From there I could assign it to a project or make it a next action. Then I discovered
TaskClone which allows me to create a note with multiple check boxes, add a specific tag and presto ... each check box item shows up in Nozbe as a separate task.
So, there it is, my GTD system to gather up everything important that needs to remembered and tasks that need to be done. All that from reading one book (and surfing around the net quite a bit).
