If you have an Evernote Plus account, you can forward emails to one of your notebooks. Integrating email with a task manager means that your daily priorities will then be in one place.

I recommend that you integrate your email tasks with your Evernote to-do list. Sort your notes and emails in the notebook by priority tag. If you’re using the Eisenhower method, for example, your tags can be “A.UI” (Urgent and Important), “B.UNI” (Urgent, Not Important), “C.INU” (Important, Not Urgent), and “D.NINU (Not Important, Not Urgent). The next level of organization for your tasks in your “ Next Actions” notebook is to assign priority tags. Use reminders to help you to schedule your actions. Name the notebooks something like “ Next Actions” and “ Waiting For”. You can also create notebooks for your items that you delegated or scheduled for later. Use Evernote notebooks for both actionable and non-actionable listsĬreate an Evernote notebook for “ Someday/Maybe” items and another one for “ Reference”. If not, delegate it or schedule it for later.

If it is actionable, determine if it will take less than 2 minutes.

The GTD system requires that you process your information through utilizing an “ action management system”.

This was first made popular by David Allen’s book in 2001. “Getting Things Done” (or GTD) is a popular productivity method. (Read about notebooks here: How to Organize Using Evernote Notebooks.) You can do this by using Evernote notebooks. Organize your tasks separately from your reference notes/emails in Evernote. Use your email daily priorities method with your Evernote to-do list as well In my blog post here: How to Prioritize Email, I wrote about prioritization methods for your inbox.

Using evernote for task management