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[Marchiavel]

Sorry about your Gators man - love playing them in Atlanta.

Anyway - I'm thinking of changing how to process stuff. Maybe your way, help me out. Now I have something in "today" in my inbox for example, and I do it/complete it etc... I move to completed or change the notebook to completed in the note, but my tag is still there and pops up in search or if I remove the tag before moving to complete it disappears from the search as soon as I remove it and then have to hunt it down to move to completed...

 

I've encountered the same problem, and resolved by changing the ".When" tag with a "Actions pending" notebook ile containing those notebooks :

 

!NOW

1 - Daily

2 - Tickler (as I use Evernote as a calendar)

3 - This week

4 - Next week

5 - This month

6 - Later

7 - Someday

8 - Waiting

Completed

 

As EACH note MUST have been one and only one ".When" tag, I found it easier to manage.

[Grant837]

gatorbrit, you can edit Evernotes content directly in ZenDone, or quickly open it from ZenDone to edt. Its done via the Evernote icon used with the listing of each item.

What I dont like about ZenDone is that its ' context ' tags are independent from the Evernote Tags.

It been pretty quiet on their part these days, in regard to updates and community postings, so I hope that does not indicate any problems with their future!

[gatorbrit]

gatorbrit, you can edit Evernotes content directly in ZenDone, or quickly open it from ZenDone to edt. Its done via the Evernote icon used with the listing of each item.

What I dont like about ZenDone is that its ' context ' tags are independent from the Evernote Tags.

It been pretty quiet on their part these days, in regard to updates and community postings, so I hope that does not indicate any problems with their future!

 

In my view, any app that uses evernote as a background (like zendone), should allow me to fairly simply edit or create a task directly in EN and then have that show up in the app.   Maybe this is not practical from a programming point of view, but I want that seamless two way interaction.  Anyhow, I've tried ZD and I didn't really care for it.  I am actually using omnifocus these days.   

[Grant837]

gatorbrit, you can edit Evernotes content directly in ZenDone, or quickly open it from ZenDone to edt. Its done via the Evernote icon used with the listing of each item.

What I dont like about ZenDone is that its ' context ' tags are independent from the Evernote Tags.

It been pretty quiet on their part these days, in regard to updates and community postings, so I hope that does not indicate any problems with their future!

 

In my view, any app that uses evernote as a background (like zendone), should allow me to fairly simply edit or create a task directly in EN and then have that show up in the app.   Maybe this is not practical from a programming point of view, but I want that seamless two way interaction.  Anyhow, I've tried ZD and I didn't really care for it.  I am actually using omnifocus these days.   

It does as far as I know - Zendone watches your default inbox and syncs regularly such that a new note is also then found in ZenDone.  You do have to be online however.  And then you can further edit the not in ZenDone or Evernotes.  I can appreciate however your choice to go for OminNotes... no problem

[ethicalsusan]

Any suggestions on how to add recurring tasks - weekly, monthly, etc. to this system?

 

Thanks

[K-nut]

Any suggestions on how to add recurring tasks - weekly, monthly, etc. to this system?

 

Thanks

I have the same question.

Workaround: The way I have done my "6-Waiting" is that when I have a waiting (on a date) I preceed the entry with eg. "13-05-01"

Then I manually have to either search (notebook:@todo tag:6-Waiting tag:13-05-01)  or just browse my "6-Waiting" category to the right date.

 

Maybe this will be my (temp) solution with a new category "7-Recurring" and then when done  the header will have to be changed to next recurring time.

 

This for items that is not naturally to have in  !Daily or my own added !Weekly and !zMonthly (the two latter to be looked at the first day of the week and the first day of the month)

[splodger1]

Hi, I have been using Evernote premium for about 18 months and TSW for the last 8 months or so.

 

This has helped enormously as my partner and I run two businesses and are around 90% paperless, which I think is the limit realistically, as too many other people still insist on having the "original" or paper copies.

 

The set up took around 2 days because of the number of notes already in Evernote, and then over the first month I made various tweaks, but with just 3 notebooks:

To Sort

Business 1

Business 2

 

and over 100 tags, the GTD works great, the search is so powerful that I can recall anything in less than a minute, for any client from either business.

The to do lists for day, week and those all important Waiting for items, falls into place.

 

Watch the TSW videos several times, I use Google rather than Outlook so, some refinement there, and take time to go through all your current notes.

 

Once done, the system is superb.. 

 

[Heart1010]

@splodger1 You use Gmail web interface? How you forward the mails to EN? Simply forward them at all or do you use an extension like powerbot for that, or....?  

[clrkprsn]

I use Gmail + TSW and do it this way.

 

I have installed the Google Docs script described here:  http://www.labnol.or...messages/20665/

 

What this script allows me to do is process my Gmail inbox by labelling all emails I want forward to Evernote with the "Evernote" label I set up in gmail.  I can label incoming emails manually or with Gmail filters.  All these labelled emails are automatically sent to Evernote.  I then archive all processed email in Gmail to arrive at zero inbox (without deleting the original emails).

 

This script makes it really easy to get emails to Evernote just by applying a label to the emails you want forward.  The real power happens when you set up filters to automatically send certain emails to EN.  Want all your TPS reports automatically to be sent to EN?  Set up the filter to apply the "Evernote" label to those emails and it's done.

 

The only downside to this is that by sending a bunch of emails to evernote in bulk, you do not specify notebooks or tags in the email subject line.  The emails will all end up in your default EN notebook and you must organize / move / tag them in EN.

 

I have found this to be a very workable solution for Gmail users like me to use TSW.

 

Gmail + Evernote + the TSW system (using the Getting Things Done methodology) has really changed my life!  It uses the minimum number of tools (two!  Gmail + Evernote) and as long as you work the system, nothing falls through the cracks.  I watched the TSW videos a bunch of times and basically use their exact tag structure.  It's awesome!

[Heart1010]

@clrkprsn Have a look at http://www.harryonli...to-evernote/226 (gm2en script) which is similar to that one you posted but can also manage tags & co

[clrkprsn]

@clrkprsn Have a look at http://www.harryonli...to-evernote/226 (gm2en script) which is similar to that one you posted but can also manage tags & co

 

Oooh... that looks slick!  I'll have to give it a try when I have a moment to configure it.

 

What is your experience with this script?

[Heart1010]

Oooh... that looks slick!  I'll have to give it a try when I have a moment to configure it.

 

What is your experience with this script?

It's working perfect... and the dev is also very friendly and fast on replies!