Evernote offers a browser extension you can use to clip items from the web, and store those as notes.

You can drag-and-drop other files into a note, like PDFs or images.

You can create a note and make a recording and store that in the note.

It has a reasonably-OK text editor (I would be much happier if it used Multimarkdown) so the experience using it for text is a bit like using Word.

You can create a note and just type text into it, and use it for storing thoughts, drafts of blog posts, meeting notes, etc.

What do you put into this container? Just about anything.

It functions around the concept of a note, which is like a file on your computer, except it's not exactly a file but more like a container. Evernote is basically a digital filing cabinet. What is Evernote and what does it have to do with GTD?Įvernote can do so many different things in so many different ways, it's hard to describe exactly what it is. So I'd like to lay out my philosophy and practice of use - and to defend the concept of paying for Evernote. But I wanted to save Evernote until now because the first post was already crazy long, and because a lot of people seem to struggle with how to use Evernote in a consistent way. There was nothing to say about Google Calendar I wrote a huge amount about ToDoist. These are used, respectively, for calendar items, action lists, and filing away information for later use. I also wrote about using three main tools to do GTD: Google Calendar, ToDoist, and Evernote. It shouldn't be hard to learn or use the tools for productivity, and we shouldn't spend much, if any, energy thinking about or messing around with the tools. And by 'good' we mean simple and trustworthy. While GTD is about acquiring good habits of mind and making pos itive changes to one's behavior about work, having good tools at hand helps to make the habits more habitual. In my last post, I went into some (!) detail about simple trusted systems and their use in Getting Things Done (GTD). The most recent post (see below) has links to all the posts in the series so far.

This is an interlude in the ongoing series GTD for Academics that I have been posting.

Onenote vs evernote vs keep 2017