My wish list for this included a number of requirements: Over the last few weeks I have spent some time attempting to plug this leak by looking for companion apps and services that allow be to more tightly integrate Evernote with my calendar. To fix this leak I need a way to automatically schedule tasks in my calendar from Evernote so that Evernote becomes the keystone app in my workflow.
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Thus there is a leak in my workflow because of the manual and duplicate work that is required in stage 3: tasks are associated with reminders in Evernote but also need to be manually scheduled in my calendar. Evernote goes someway to helping with this in the sense that reminders can now be created for tasks but to schedule tasks I need to manually enter them in my calendar (across all my devices). Task Scheduling – this is where tasks are scheduled (and resources are assigned).Basically all of my tasks are assembled as Evernote notes, with links to supoprting information, and organised/reviewed according to project and priority. Task Collation – this is where I assemble my tasks and all of their associated information.This works well and I’ve written before about some neat ways to optimise this. For me this usually starts with email and action-bearing emails are sent to Evernote as a central collection point. Task Collection – this is the place in my workflow where tasks tend to originate.
Let me explain.įor me there are 3 basic elements for an effective task management workflow: The problem for me is that if I rely on Evernote for task management then my task management workflow is not, as it should be, a closed loop. Indeed over the last few months Evernote has added some useful new functionality in the form of a reminders subsystem that goes a long way to bridging its native task management gap.
Afterall Evernote is not a task management system, although it is flexible enough to be configured as such, and, by all accounts, does a fine job of implementing many of the popular methodologies such as GTD. Its task management capabilities are lacking however. It is a great general-purpose information repository and provides me with anytime, anywhere, any-device access to all of the important information that orbits my life these days. Photo credit: Chaval Brasil via photopin cc
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