Category Archives: Organization

Living in the cloud, but not the browser

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Jeff

I have an iPhone, a net­book and a multi-​monitor desk­top. And for most tasks, it really doesn’t mat­ter which one I use because can get to all the same data from all three. I tried doing the web-​app thing. I really did. Given that my … Con­tinue read­ing →

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The plan

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Jeff

A big part of this blog, and Writ­ing On Your Palm before it, has always been to doc­u­ment my jour­ney as a writer and serve as either a cau­tion­ary exam­ple or inspi­ra­tion to oth­ers. It occurred to me recently that I have a unique … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Evernote and the Google problem

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Jeff

We’ve all seen the new Bing com­mer­cials show­ing peo­ple suf­fer­ing from search engine over­load. I can iden­tify with those thus afflicted, since I go through that every day. Only it’s not hit­ting me when I search Google; it’s hit­ting me when I search Ever­note. … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Notebooks or tags with Evernote?

Posted on September 1, 2009 by Jeff

I’ve got­ten a few ques­tions about how I use tags and note­books in Ever­note. Now, while I think one of the cool things about Ever­note is that you can set it up how­ever makes the most sense to you per­son­ally, I real­ize it helps … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Evernote for GTD, simplified

Posted on August 28, 2009 by Jeff

If I’m going to use Ever­note for GTD because of how amaz­ing it is as an uni­ver­sal inbox, I need to develop a sys­tem that actu­ally exploits Evernote’s strengths, rather than sim­ply trans­lat­ing the paper note­book GTD work­flow to it. Ever­note is … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Cross platform GTD in Evernote

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Jeff

I got a request on Twit­ter recently (hi, @girvo!) to update how I use GTD now that I’ve switched plat­forms. It’s pretty sim­ple, and if you’ve been read­ing my stuff recently, it should come as no sur­prise that I’m doing it almost … Con­tinue read­ing →

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GTD for storytellers

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Jeff

Part of the prob­lem cre­ative types have with David Allen’s Get­ting Things Done method­ol­ogy is that we tend to be “big pic­ture” type peo­ple and GTD focuses on the lit­tle things. Even if we’re method­i­cal in set­ting up our GTD … Con­tinue read­ing →

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