If we never empty our inbox, then it just turns into a huge mix of to-do items, references, emails for which we’re waiting for a reply, someday/maybe ideas, FYI stuff, and junk/spam… Here a nice blog post on the subject, otherwise I recommend reading the Getting Things Done (GTD) book from David Allen. Meaning we’re basically allowing anyone to add items directly in our to-do lists all the time!! No surprise dealing with emails became so frustrating. That’s fine, the only thing is that anyone can send us emails. Don’t you? I mean like how often did you remember that you had to do something because you saw again that email from 3 days ago in your inbox? OK, me too. Many people use their email inboxes as to-do lists, without even being aware of it. OK, so now, what about the email? First question is actually: how do we use our normal personal and professional email inboxes every day? For more details on all this, see the further reading list at the end □ There are also features which allow scanning notes and Evernote recognizes your hand-writing allowing you to search the text of your own notes (I know it’s a bit creepy), you can even scan people business cards, you can also add photos and audio files. I use it as a read-it-later app and love that it allows highlighting and to add notes to the downloaded article. Indeed, the Web clipper allows downloading any webpage, either as a bookmark or the full webpage or just a selection, you choose. Personally, I only use it as my reference manager for my own notes and for online stuff. Let’s first have a quick introduction about Evernote.Įvernote is a note taking app, but with so many powerful features that people tend to use it for everything, including to-do list and task manager. After I started using Evernote, it took me quite a few months to realize the full potential of one of its features: the email address.
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