This is the last of two blogs, here is a link to the first one. Once you have played with the shortcuts and the simple search syntax it is time to create more advanced searches. Setting the scope: Here are some of keywords to limit and scope of your search. notebook: to limit which notebook […]
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Part 1 of 2: Effective searching in EverNote
By Shahram on May 2, 2011 in Effectiveness, EverNote & GTD, Getting More Done, Getting Things Done, Software
Searching is key in any media/circumstance. In the old days who ever could do a good search at Altavista, Yahoo or eventually Google was the king. I even had searching classes back in university for faculty and other students. Since than has the search engines evolved to let any type of search produce decent results. […]
EverNote Attributes used for GTD
By Shahram on April 13, 2011 in Effectiveness, EverNote & GTD, Getting More Done, Getting Things Done, Software
EverNote is a great tool for gathering, organizing and handling things. In earlier blogs I talk about why the simplicity is exactly the thing that makes EverNote superior to any other tool. Searching, attributes and folder is just enough features for a general GTD practitioner. Sometimes you just like to have certain functionality or automation that […]
Search vs. categorization, tagging and adv. sorting
By Shahram on April 11, 2011 in Effectiveness, EverNote & GTD, Getting More Done, Getting Things Done, Software
I have spent many years on working with optimization of life and work. Have read/practiced most of the techniques from the old time-management stuff for 15 years ago until the most modern philosophies and tools. Dependent on where you are in your development, let me give you a quick advice! Search beats categorization 100% of the time […]
EverNote templates
By Shahram on April 7, 2011 in Effectiveness, EverNote & GTD, Getting More Done, Getting Things Done, Software
Once you get to know EverNote, you will start to have customized requirements. Many notes as in meetings, reports and quick info captures has the same format and content. Having a template saves lots of time. Unfortunately, EverNote doesn’t have a template feature yet. Here is a short tutorial on how to work around this […]
Evernote as the best GTD tool
By Shahram on April 1, 2011 in Effectiveness, EverNote & GTD, Getting More Done, Getting Things Done, Software
There are two subjects when it comes to becoming successful with GTD (Getting Things Done). Trusted tools Discipline Often people try to overcome the lack of discipline with tools. It is very easy to look for new to-do, list handler and action list applications. Now that there are more devices, you end up looking for […]
