Evernote Tasks | Your Easy Strategy for Seamless Organization

[@drfrankbuck]

How do you keep up with your tasks? Let me know in the comments. 😎

[@Barry-o7l]

Liked your angle on this presentation, not just a how to, but how why? Your educator genes are on display. Evernote is really starting to move the needle.

[@drfrankbuck]

Thanks! Yes, Evernote has been busy lately. They have really turned the ship.

[@697hotas7]

Thanks 🙏 Frank, very good advice, I will try to implement this system in my evn.

[@drfrankbuck]

You are welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@laurenceglazier]

Thanks for this. I am also interested in your thoughts about filtering the tasks, as the undated ones can mount up!

[@drfrankbuck]

It depends on which way you are going to view the undated tasks. Either way, I would work from the "Today" view. If your system is that every active task gets a due date and the ones with no date are a "master list" of tasks for sometimes in the future, and that you will periodically look at all of them and add dates to the ones you want to act on, I wouldn't worry about the length or the order of it. If you use undated items for things that are available to you now and wanted to organize what started to be a long list, here is what I would do: Again, use the "Today" view. Use the "Priority" field to segment them into high, middle, low, and none. Sort the list by "Priority" rather than date. What you will see is overdue tasks grouped together, and within that group, you see the high-priority ones at the top. So, a task that's one day overdue may be listed above one that is 6 days overview. In the "Today" section, you see a list of everything that truly has a date of Today, and they will be listed by priority. I would collapse the sections for "Tomorrow," "Next 7 days," and "Future." Then you would have your undated tasks (lots of them) with the high priority listed first. Hope this helps.

[@laurenceglazier]

@@drfrankbuck Many thanks - I will use the undated items approach and follow your suggestions. It will be interesting to see how the system works as the "No due date" grows, that's where the filtering will become more important. For the time being I will filter on key words for context.

[@alles1schick]

Thanks for your Insights. I was woundering how to implement the Eisenhower Matrix into this. Not all tasks are the same, and have the priority. I know that you can set a priority, but do you have any idea or workaround on thus? Thanks.

[@drfrankbuck]

Thanks for your question. Priorities is exactly the way I would do it. With Evernote, you have three priority levels, so you're one short. Using the flag could be the fourth priority. I would assign a due date to everything. (You could have a task you can't do or don't want to do until a week from Friday, but on that date it's a Quadrant 1. With this arrangement, you could go ahead and assign the date and priority, and on that date it would show up with the other Quadrant 1 tasks.)