You already use Evernote as your task repository? Then take the next step with our task planner! Plan when to do or finish your tasks and create an overview for your week and the future, just by adding tags!
Merlin Mechler created this awesome automation, which was just available in german. So we decided to make an english version of this great automation, we just modified it a bit.
And this is how your task planner could look like:
You possibly know or use Evernotes feature to create a table of contents note. But Filterize has a really powerful action to create ToC (short for table of contents), that allows you much more!
I use that kind of automation for two of my notebooks and it is definitely time to share my experience with you!
At the last Evernote Event Productivity on the Go, Joshua Zerkel presented how he uses Evernote. One interesting approach was to use emojis inside Evernote to make your notes, notebooks, and tags more visual. In this article we show you how you can automatically add emojis to special kind of notes.
According to Wikipedia, the US president Dwight Eisenhower one said, “I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.” This distinction between urgency and importance has led to a popular time-management principle that is now known as the “Eisenhower matrix”, which lends itself to implementation in Evernote.
The Eisenhower matrix characterizes tasks according to whether they are …
Urgent tasks are those that demand your attention, such as a ringing telephone. However, urgent tasks are not necessarily important. (Many phone calls are not important, for example.)
This gives a total of four combinations as shown in the featured image at the beginning of the post. Steven Covey, who popularized the Eisenhower matrix in his book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, called the combinations “Quadrants”. Each quadrant has very different consequences for time management.
Evernote has published a template for the Eisenhower matrix. However, it has the disadvantage that all its entries are static – they have to be modified manually. It would be much more convenient if their contents updated automatically when you add or delete notes that are tagged according to one of the quadrants. Fortunately, Filterize offers exactly this functionality, effectively making the matrix into a type of dashboard.
If you are already a Filterize user, you can download a ready-made script and add the tag Eisenhower-Matrix to it. Then, every note in your system that has a reminder and any of the tags P1, P2, P3 will be added to the corresponding box. Filterize adds notes with a reminder but none of these three tags to Quadrant 4 “Do it Later”.
The result might look something like this:
You can also check out this video on our Eisenhower template presented by Enrico Nahler:
Our friend Enrico Nahler, ECC and Filterize user from the very beginning has built an awesome graphic dashboard in Evernote using Filterize. He uses Evernote for many different purposes, has thousands of notes and needed a way to access different kinds of notes as quickly as possible. He also wanted it to be graphically appealing. He created an awesome dashboard and showed his result in this video:
We also love the way Enrico uses Evernote and Filterize together to create such a feel-good dashboard. (The featured image above shows part of it.) So we are now going to give you step-by-step instructions for building such a dashboard for yourself.