GTDWannabe has over twenty posts detailing how she uses EverNote to implement GTD. I also found a site (that she no longer maintains) that has a set of templates that she and other developers on the EverNote forum have implemented. I downloaded the SystemProject and SystemWeeklyReview templates
and spent some time transcribing Projects and their associated Next Actions from Freemind into EverNote.

I’ve been reading through the EverNote user manual to learn more about this tool. EverNote has a concept called Keyword Categories. You can create new categories and specify rules for each category. For example, I could create a category called GTD and specify that  a note belongs to this category if the keywords “GTD” or “Getting Things Done” or “David Allen” appear in the note. Actually, EverNote provides rich semantics for specifying these rules. Now your notes can be dynamically categorized
based on the rules you have specified.

 

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I’ve been using this following analog/digital, lofi/hifi combination as my GTD setup:

• Outlook for email, next actions and the hard landscape
• Freemind to capture Projects and Someday/Maybes as well as to do some brainstorming
• File folders for analog information
• DIY Levenger Circa / Rollabind notebook for must-have hardcopies
• Cornell Notes template from D*I*Y Planner that are filed in the notebook using the Circa punch
• 3×5 cards using the D*I*Y Planner templates that are filed in the notebook using the Circa punch

And now for the latest entry… EverNote Plus.

David Allen will be speaking at PUSH 2006. This conference, sponsored by the PUSH institute, is held every year in Minneapolis, MN. According to the website, the conference tends to attract “strategists, innovators and futurists from business, academia and the arts.”

I first heard about this conference through an ad in the FastCompany magazine. I wonder what David Allen will talk about in his 30 minute presentation. If one of you, or someone you know is planning to attend the conference, please let us know!

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It was bound to happen! It has, and will happen to the best of us. I’m talking about the gradual realization that you are falling off the GTD Wagon. This week I’ve been reading some interesting articles. Jason at BlackBeltProductivity.org has been writing about how GTD is a discipline:

Truth is, GTD® is a discipline. No one says it is easy, at first. For it to work, some of us must change some habits. Some of us will need to adjust our perspective. Some of us will have to reprioritize our lives. Some of us may have to do all of the above. For me, its still a work in progress.