I prefer keeping it simple and I use mainly just two notebooks – To do and Filing – and also as few tags as possible. (On my blog I describe how I apply GTD using Evernote, and I also list these, and other, sources.)Īs another poster mentions, David Allen's book recommends using a lot of notebooks. I found The Secret Weapon a couple of years ago as well as Rudd Hein, David Gold, David Warn, Darren Crawford, and a few others. Hi Quest The Wordsmith - just seen your question about GTD and EN. I personally use ideas that came from both of these system. The answer isn't clear, since it depends on how big and flexible your system need to be. SO, the real debate between these two system In my own opinion: tags or notebook for organization. this, and the project, support material and reference notebooks. You basically get a inbox notebook, a next actions stack with a notebook for each context: call notebook, agenda notebook, work notebook etc. The difference is: The GTD ebook structure is based entirely on notebooks, notebook stacks and reminders vs TSW that is based a lot on tags. I understand you know how to use Evernote since you use TSW, so there's nothing new here. The book then explain how to setup Evernote and how to capture item in Evernote. It begin with a condensed version of the GTD workflow, with brief explanation of the weekly review, a workflow chart, etc.

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