14. March 2019
Why and how I have shifted my GTD organization backbone in Evernote towards notebooks.
I have been using Evernote to manage my GTD tasks and projects from the very beginning. In case you haven't heard of the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology - the chance of this is pretty slim as it is very popular and gets much love on the Internet for well over a decade now - it is a conceptually very simple yet extremely powerful project management and self-organization system. Finding the right technical implementation of GTD for myself took some time and also involved some trial and error, but as soon as I have found The Secret Weapon (TSW), I have decided to go with it. It worked like a charm in general, it also has proven to provide great coverage of the GTD workflow. However, The Secret Weapon's approach is highly tag oriented and this technical detail has exposed some drawbacks with time. After living with these for a while, it was time to look into how I could hedge the elements of friction in the system while retaining the granularity and flexibility that the tag system of TSW has provided.