Getting Things Done With Evernote

Learn the GTD workflow in Evernote, based on David Allen's book, and apply its five phases—collect, process, organize, review, and do—to stay organized and stress-free.

Learn to download and install Evernote, log in, and set up GTD notebooks and stacks, including agendas and the next actions stack, to manage your tasks.

Organize items by notebooks in Evernote, including agendas, calls, waiting for, someday maybe, computer, home, and office. Capture actions and project notes, and review weekly.

Move items between notebooks to apply the GTD workflow in Evernote, sorting next actions by context and reassigning them to someday maybe or waiting for with tags and search.

Create and use an inbox notebook in Evernote to capture ideas on the fly, clip web content, and process items to zero by deciding next actions.

Learn to email notes to your Evernote account using your unique email address, set a default inbox, or send to a specific notebook.

Learn to manage tasks in Evernote using due dates, do today and this week tags, and note reminders with alarms to stay on top of your actions.

Discover how to create a completed items notebook in Evernote, move finished projects there, and preserve a historical record for reference and year-end reviews, while avoiding trash deletion.

Learn to manage emails with Evernote by choosing between two methods: using waiting-for folders as action reminders in your mail, or creating next-action notebooks in Evernote with mail as storage.

Master inbox zero using GTD in Evernote, following David Allen's rules: decide actionability, trash or file, then set the next action, with do it now if under two minutes.

Treat your calendar as the hard landscape for your day in GTD with Evernote, scheduling day-specific and time-specific actions so what gets scheduled gets done.

Discover using Evernote as a GTD reference store, organized like a filing cabinet with notebooks and tags to quickly retrieve items such as bank account details.

Perform a weekly review to keep your Evernote system current: collect materials, clear your head, and update actions, calendars, projects, and checklists for ongoing organization.