

It was ok in broad terms – but it didn’t actully help me minute to minute.Same with the abc 123 priority systems Some was important some not.Priority manager – required me to use a very specific set of tools – and some times it wasn’t clear to me what my priorities actually were a week ahead of time. A jumbled list of stuff – some of which was clear actions – some was just vague reminders. None of what we’re about to go through together comes from any natural ability on my part.I have done what probably most of you have:To do listsDaytimerPriority managerAbc 123 priority settingNothing seemed to quite nail it for me – or at least stick around very long.There were flaws in all of the plansTo do lists – didn’t organize me – they just depressed me. There it is – that’s my structure score.It’s not out of 20 – it’s from 1 to 99So you’re in good company.A birkman component called “Structure” = measures organization and orderliness.The ability or willingness to deal with details, follow plans and finish tasks – use a systematized approach.Now I know – if you came to this session – you either are really good at this and want to gloat at the rest of us or…You’re like me.IronyLet me start with a personal introduction and confession.I want to give you one technical slide during this workshop – ready… it has some “Birkman” language on it – so brace yourself.Call Sean re member of training committee.– Call Sean re member of training committee Start with the minimum required framework, and refactor as needed.Get stuff out of your brain and onto paper The only guidance I would offer is that this way makes Evernote do the remembering and relevant presentation of already in use tags for you, and suggested format of needed new tags as required. Whether you want to add additional single word tag modifiers to that is a religious debate. I may not remember the exact classname, but I could type: Lectures in the search field, and along with all the other relevant hits in the search results would be a tag listing of every compound tag name with with Lectures in it, so I could pick from: Th in search is likely going to just show all your Thesis related tags, all alpha sorted by phylum.īut because the tags are delimited, I can also search on the sub words. Likewise you might have thesis tags starting with.

Just type the prefix and select from the list. So there's no having to remember what you're using. So just typing in the search bar (or the search field of the tags view) will show only your existing GTD context tags. The other way is to build hierarchy into the tag names themselves.Ī lot of the GTD tag schemes use a symbol character for for context, or an ! for an action tag, or a number of prefixes starting with. There are many more in these forums and a simple GTD and Evernote search will probably give you more than you would ever want to look at. Same as Jeff I rarely look at my tags based on 1 and 2 above.Same as Jeff I organize the tags in a tree structure.This sorts them nicely in List view and in tag drop downs. The linked document is a bit wordy, but in the end I precede action tags with "!-#", (!1-Now, !2-Next. Relative to GTD, I modified for my use a system called The Secret Weapon.Rely on the tag drop down tag list refinement as you type capability.This is a fairly simple way to get at 2,500 notes. For example, I keep all of my statements in EN and tag those notes with Statement and CompanyName. Use broad categories for tags with names you are likely to remember.First, be a minimalist relative to your usage of tags.
