
I'm a firm believer in spending the minimum time on administration and the maximum time on doing - with suitably generous allowances for sleeping and eating thinking and planning time. I can monitor projects and people, assign and share tasks and keep all that up to date from any platform I happen to be near. Someone else has engineered all these functions so the app will push jobs at me without my having to look for them. I can do recurring tasks, long term reminders and wish lists, and I can complete jobs that will automatically re rescheduled for a set period after the completion date, not the due date. My to-do process is: dump everything into Astrid/ Wunderlist (I'm kind've between apps at the moment) and let it nag me when the next item(s) come up. I'm quite a long way down the road to achieving my ambition to be the World's Laziest Person, and just reading the process above used up most of my attention span for this week. If I ever want a log of when I did something, "Completed" sorted by date does the trick. I've noticed that notes tend to move roughly like this: In other cases, I expand the note manually while I'm working on it, sometimes with checkboxes, links to other notes, external materials, etc. The real beauty of this is that most of the information for each action is right there in the note, because they mostly come from emails. Move to "Now" or "Next" when I can do something on it. "Pending" is usually also tagged with someone's name and is often also a "Fixed Date". Check "Later" when I'm bored being productive.Work through "Now", and move things up from "Next".List view showing "Fixed Date", sorted by title (puts the dates in the right order).Card View, sorted by last updated, descending, showing Now, Next, Pending or search results (shortcut keys cmd-1 through cmd-9 are great for navigating 9 shortcuts).
#Evernote jobs mac
Keep two windows open on my Mac desktop all the time:.Retitle notes tagged "Fixed Date" to start with yyyy.mm.dd.File everything as one or more of the following tags: Now, Next, Later, Pending, Fixed Date, or if it is not something I need to do, put it in the "Notes" notebook.Religiously check the saved search "Incoming", which shows everything I haven't filed yet.For example: "document grand unified field theory breakthrough".



I finally put my finger on why Evernote is such a phenomenal to-do list manager, at least the way I use it: I use Evernote, which isn't particularly great for to-dos yet.
