I also have a few key tags set up as shortcuts in Evernote that help me keep the big things in mind. And sometimes I’ll take notes directly in Evernote (like on a phone call) but that’s rare. It’s a simple process and it ensures that I have the notes forever. Every week or so I’ll go through my notebook and take photos of my notes and upload them into Evernote through the Android app.
As I mentioned in a previous post about my Operating System, I’m like Ron Burgundy with my calendar: if its on there, I’m doing it.Ī HUGE advantage of Reminders is the ability to tell my phone via, “Ok, Google” to remind me of something later.Įvernote is the tool I put all of my notes in. I love how these reminders sit nicely in my calendar, which really is my ultimate tool. Google Calendar Reminders are used when I have a to-do that needs to happen at a specific time. Whenever I use a digital tool for to-do’s, it becomes easy to simply snooze an item over and over again, whereas with the notebook I have to rewrite my to-do list as I get further into the notebook, which is a nice forced “culling” process. Keeping my main to-do list in my notebook is certainly not as functional as having it digitally (because then it would always be with me and I’d never lose it,) but I have found over time that if its in my notebook it stays more top of mind.
And I use a hybrid bullet journal process for taking notes in my notebook. I have a lot of meetings with people (internal Dragon Army team members and external connections,) and I just have a hard time using a digital device when trying to connect with someone. I use an actual, physical notebook for my main to-do list and for note-taking in meetings. I also stick tasks in Google Tasks if I only have my phone with me, and later I’ll drop them into my notebook. Google Tasks became a staple of my process when it was recently integrated into Gmail (my email tool of choice.) I put longer term, less serious tasks there, and ones that I know I’ll need to access digitally. My current process is a combination of Google Tasks, Google Calendar Reminders, Evernote, and a physical notebook. Because, as we all know, time is the one thing we all have the same amount of and how we use that time will determine how successful we will be. I love talking about (and searching for) the most optimal to-do and note-taking processes, and I often change it up quite frequently in search for the ultimate solution. I’m a real nerd when it comes to optimizing my “systems” and finding efficiency in how I manage my time.
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