Evernote

Been meaning to post a quick shout out to Evernote, my favorite productivity app at the moment.

I am using a bastardized version of Bobby Travis's "one notebook" tagging system to incorporate a GTD-based structure into Evernote - basically using Evernote tags to create a Next Actions / Projects / Reference type of structure for incoming notes.

Evernote is in many ways a perfect solution for the "universal inbox" of GTD lore. Pictures, text, voice notes, emails, web clippings - all of these can be squirted right into Evernote from any app or device. PDF's and pictures get "munged" in the background and converted into searchable text.

Once in Evernote, incoming notes get tagged as either Next Actions (with context based tags e.g. @AGENDAS, @CALLS, @EMAILS etc), Projects, or Reference items. I got fairly anal with the Reference tagging structure and created single-letter tag headers from A through Z, with nested tags alphabetized hierarchically thereunder.

Working great so far...although I do miss having a single consolidated "top level" view of all open action items (a la Things or OmniFocus).

More to follow.