productivity – Ruud Hein

You’re Just Being Interesting With Your “Information Overload”

By Ruud Hein | Friday, September 3, 2010 | Comments 4 comments

Twitter’s Ev thinks Twitter can help you overcome Information Overload.

That’s Sillicon Valley thinking. Information "overload" is a Sillicon Valley type of problem. Such problems are mostly a matter of choice, exist in a very small sub-culture — and have virtually no baring on the real lives of normal people. …

Evernote GTD How To

By Ruud Hein | Sunday, September 27, 2009 | Comments 179 comments

The following 15 minute setup enables you to use Evernote as a frictionless GTD list application. Easy entry, no multiple notebooks required. Works with you, not against you.

The setup features:

notebook independent setup: enter and use to do notes anywhere, anytime
Project List
list aggregating all next actions
@ context lists
Waiting For
Someday/Maybe
5 “time required” levels & lists
done/audit list
toggle checkbox (/tag) to move items on/off the Someday/Maybe list

The description is for an oldÂ Windows desktop client, Evernote 3.1, but works anywhere Evernote does. Current versions of Evernote haveÂ no counts shown next to the saved searches: Evernote 3.1 gives a clear at-a-glance view of where you have how many open items.
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