Evernote: How to Master Evernote in 1 Hour & Getting Things Done Without Forgetting. ( An Essential Underground Guide To GTD In 7 Days Revealed! )

Jason Scotts

Description

How To Master Evernote in 1 Hour & Getting Things Done Without Forgetting is a guidebook for the practical application of Evernote into every corner of your life. Whether you are...-A student struggling with reams of lecture notes, references, and recordings of talks-A journalist who needs to compile ideas, log interviews, and communicate on the move -A busy individual who wants to keep and share photos, store business cards and notes "Evernote is your new, virtual filing cabinet." What's included in Master Evernote in 1 Hour?-Evernote Quick set tricks and tips, Evernote tweaks and mods, Evernote clipping and searching, Evernote mobile and bonus tips and an Evernote cheat sheet . In addition, this book also help you to become more productive by using Evernote® and implementing best practices tied to the wildly popular Getting Things Done® (GTD®) methodology developed by The David Allen Company. My easy-to-follow guide will enable you to make better decisions about how to organize your life in the electronic world.

Sujets

• Reference
• Personal development
• Self-management
• Body (disambiguation)
• Evernote
• Stress management
• Personality
• General officer
• Self-help
• Total quality management
• Time management
• Project management
• Memory
• General
• Identity
• Body
• Ego
• Qualité totale

Informations

• Publié par: Speedy Publishing LLC
• Date de parution: 29 septembre 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781630221683
• Langue: English

Extrait

Table of Contents
Introduction
I. What Is the Getting Things Done System
II. How to Implement GTD in 7 days
1. Collection
2. Determination of Projects and Identifying the Tasks Related to These Projects
3. Organization of Information
4. Accomplishing the Tasks
III. The Importance of Context for GTD Software
IV. GTD and Evernote
V. Evernote Understanding the Basics
VI. Evernote Quick Set Up Tricks and Tips
VII. Evernote Tweaks and Mods
VIII. Evernote Clipping and Searching
IX. Evernote Search Terms and Grammar
X. Evernote Cheat Sheet
XI. Evernote Mobile and Bonus Tips
XII. Conclusion
Introduction
If you want to maximize productivity, free your mental space of things to remember and store humungous data in a single storage area, Evernote is the best platform to have. Users say that the app is incredibly useful and can be learned in a matter of hours.
Evernote s brilliance shows up once a user uses it as his default webclip/bookmark, recipe box, app, repository of all reference materials, and so on. You ll feel it s great to have all information neatly indexed and easy to search across all system platforms.
The discussion here is meant to introduce you to Evernote. You d first feel overwhelmed with the details but with helpful guidance you ll enjoy going through the learning curve and incorporating it to your Getting Things Done (GTD) app.
The learning task can be done in a matter of hours, but if you give it more of a focus, it will take only one hour to master, so let s start.
I. What Is the Getting Things Done System
This exploration is for those who, for some reason of their own, have not yet taken advantage of the Getting Things Done system. The system is designed to increase people s productivity in the office and in their personal lives. It is a method of managing one s time, a method that is also called as the GTD method.

The method is based on the assumption that to do smaller tasks and bigger things like projects can be moved out of the mind to be recorded externally into notes. This allows one to break these tasks and see them as more actionable work pieces.
The method benefits mainly by freeing the user of the need to recall details of tasks and allowing them to focus on doing actions on the tasks at hand.
David Allen, author of the GTD system, believes that prioritizing tasks play a major role in the management of time. Allen developed the system with the belief that implementing perspective and control is the ultimate key to maximizing productivity. He constructed a process of workflow that makes it possible for anyone to gain control over commitments and tasks.
To improve on the area of perspective , he built a system that allows one to focus on six horizons or levels of doing things.
This horizon system is based on the idea of an airplane taking off from the ground. The first focus is compared to the runway level with the sixth or last level compared to the air level of 50,000 feet or more. As observers have noted, this Allen system is contrary to the theories that emphasize goal setting should be of the top down type.
For Allen, it is the opposite way that is more productive. He theorizes that it is harder for individuals to fix their eyes on big goals if the smaller tasks leading particular to the big goals are not sufficiently controlled. For him, there is a need to define and clarify the normal workday and freeing up space in the memory for one to be able to move up to the ladder or the levels of focus.
GTD, in particular, operates to improve one s ability to store, track and retrieve details and information. Allen thinks that people experience mental blocks because there is lack in planning in advance and in generating actions that can be undertaken later without requiring more planning. He further said that the reminding structure of our brain is not efficient in reminding us of the things that need to be done at the time and position where it is not impossible to do them.
With the GTD system in place and with it relying on outside memories, the brain s reminding inefficiency is compensated and the reminders come when they are needed, a hypothesis that is expressed in the brain theories called extended mind and distributed cognition .

The GTD system allows a review of tasks that can be done on a weekly basis. This way, the user can have a better perspective of what to do next and what should be prioritized. In every review session, the user is expected to study the circumstances around the tasks and categorize these tasks for better handling. A user, for example, can categorize important meetings, calls to make, follow up on supplies related to certain projects, and errands to do while in the supermarket under appropriate listings.
II. How to Implement GTD in 7 days
Let it be clear at this point that GTD is a time management theory and as an applied theory, it is merely a time management methodology. There is no such a thing as GTD software that has been developed by the author because his methodology assumes paper note taking as the primary method of recording data.
What we now have are technological systems and computer apps that claim to be using this methodology. Having said that, we can say that GTD is technologically neutral but the time management ideas presented in the theory can be used in the development of technological systems related to time management.
Developers of Android, Windows 7, Blackberry, Ubuntu, Mac, Linux, IPad, Android and I Phone and others are competing with one another in terms of incorporating the GTD system for their clients to use.
Moreover, several task management applicatio