Comments on: Review: Getting Things Done with Evernote

By: HOWTO: Get Things Done with Evernote | MentalPolyphonics

HOWTO: Get Things Done with Evernote | MentalPolyphonics — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:02:28 +0000

[...] by Jared on Wednesday, 2009-June-3rd at 9:02 am As requested: [...]

By: Ryley

Ryley — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:48:20 +0000

Jared, I want to try this… I need a lesson though, evernote is too flexible, I can’t immediately see how to force it into the system you’ve described…

It has a BlackBerry app (which I haven’t grabbed yet), which makes this worth trying for me… That and Google Notebook is dead.

By: Kyla

Kyla — Thu, 28 May 2009 02:14:59 +0000

BTW, ThinkingRock is a pretty good GTD program too. It slows my computer down too much to use, though.

By: Jared

Jared — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:00:28 +0000

@Jack: The cost of modifications to hipster PDAs is way too high. GTD systems need to get out of the way or you just won’t use them.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:53:00 +0000

Bottom line it for me: Are these apps really more useful than a hipster PDA and some manilla folders? How much more useful?

It seems to me that a hipster will get you 80 or 90 percent of the way there.

By: Jared

Jared — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:33:37 +0000

@Kyla: RTM can do tag algebra. I don’t think it can do tag inheritance, but a good tag algebra system can fake that.

OmniFocus is by far the most powerful cross-platform task management tool, but it’s $80 for the full license. It even has iPhone GPS integration!

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:06:48 +0000

For implementing GTD you can use this web-based application:

http://www.Gtdagenda.com

You can use it to manage your goals, projects and tasks, set next actions and contexts, use checklists, schedules and a calendar.
A mobile version is available too.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:50:44 +0000

I asked Kousin Lynn White what system she uses because she’s the single most productive person I’ve ever met.

Turns out she independently came up with a simple GTD (including long and mid-term planning with weekly reviews and 43-ish folders).

Her only context seems to be “@agendabook”, but I’m not productive enough to give her advice on that count. We’re doing some experiments with superproductivity (one hour of effort to accomplish more than one hour of tasks), but I’ll save that for a future post.

Personally, I’ll get higher returns focusing on normal productivity first.

By: Kyla

Kyla — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:54:28 +0000

I use Remember the Milk. I’m only doing a pseudo-GTD though, because I’m lazy and I don’t do much. I don’t think it can do complicated tags like that, though. Or maybe it can, I’ve never tried.