“WFR” is short for “Waiting For Response” - these are emails I’ve sent or calls I’ve made that I’m waiting to hear back on.

“Scheduled” is just what it sounds like - an action I haven’t taken yet that I have set to go off at a prearranged time. I have two sets of tags I use in my actions folder: “Scheduled” and “WFR”.

That makes it extra easy to see what’s going on, what’s been taken care of, and what you’ve got coming up. The Actions folder gets even radder when you start applying tagging to it. If you can’t put a name to the next concrete thing you gotta do, then you don’t gotta do nothin’! Tags Can’t think of a title? Then it’s not worth recording. The title can change as the situation evolves I generally just add notes on top of notes as the situation evolves. The title is what you need to do the body of the note is reference material or subordinate questions to the title. Since Evernote makes it easy to sort all of your notes into overarching themes (I think they call them “Notebooks”), I have a notebook dedicated just to what I need to do next. GTD stresses the importance of having a concrete “Next Action” for every thing that comes onto your plate. When the system you use to keep track of everything is Evernote - well, my friends, you’ve stumbled very close into a condition I call “Weapons Grade Productivity”. Briefly summarized - Allen’s central thesis is that it’s absolutely crucial to get your workflow out of your head and into a system you refer to consistently. It’s a great little read that you can blaze through in a few days, and is well worth the time you spend on it.

I love Evernote enough to pay fifty bucks to keep it year after year, but I never really felt like I was using it to its full potential until I picked up and read David Allen’s Getting Things Done.

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