That tweaking consists primarily of setting up stacks of tags in Evernote that can serve as contexts in your GTD workflow. I think it took me about an hour to watch all the videos and to tweak Evernote. The good news here is that all the hard work has already been done: the Secret Weapon (TSW) website provides a series of very clear and attractive short videos that explain how to set up Evernote for a GTD workflow. This means that you will have to do some preparatory work to set it up for that purpose. While Evernote can be used as a task manager, it was not designed to be one.

Evernote is zenlike in its simplicity, but can it be adapted to support the more complex phases of a GTD workflow? Will it help you process all this information, organise tasks and review priorities? Can it help you to get things done? Or are you better off co-opting a custom-built application like Zendone, which was designed to provide a task management overlay to help you work with the information stored in Evernote? You can sort your information in folders, tag individual items and retrieve your information thanks to a lightning-fast search function. Evernote is eminently well-suited for the ‘collect’ phase of the GTD process: it provides an intuitive, versatile and robust repository for every shred of information that you may wish to collect, whether that be a business card, a recipe or a web page. One of the core principles of David Allen’s Getting Things Done™ (GTD™) approach to task management is that you need a ‘trusted system’ for capturing all the information, ideas and tasks that come your way.

Getting things done and evernote