GTDWannabe Helps Me Organize My Reading Lists
I’ve been spending a great deal of time with EverNote Plus 1.5 recently. I’m so glad that I submitted a handwriting sample and obtained a license for EverNote Plus 1.1, and even more grateful that EverNote provided free upgrades to EverNote Plus 1.5 when it was released. I haven’t played much with the new features such as PC to PC Synchronization and the ability to open multiple databases - instead I have been trying to organize my reading lists. A couple of months ago when I started using EverNote
I read an essay on how GTDWannabe uses EverNote to organize research materials. Back then I filed this information away in del.icio.us. Now I use the technique espoused in the essay of using keywords such as @get[] and implemented a rudimentary state machine to help me organize personal, academic and professional reading lists.
When I identify a book I’d like to read I find information about the book at the Public Library, amazon.com, getabstracts.com, books24×7.com and other sources and create a new note to capture the information.
I’ve created an umbrella keyword category called Books. Under this category I have the following sub categories:
“To Get” with keyword filter => “@get[]”
“In Queue” with keyword filter => “@get[x] @queue[]”
“Reading” with keyword filter => “@get[x] @queue[x] @read[]”
“Have Read” with keyword filter => “@get[x] @queue[x] @read[x]”
GTDWannabe, thanks for sharing your technique!
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