All of my my ToDos (notes) are created in their respective notebooks. I manage multiple projects and I have separate notebooks for each project. While I don’t practice the ‘zero’ Inbox, I now easily maintain the ‘zero unread’ Inbox. Thus, I no longer have any need of flagging, coloring, or categorizing anything in my email application and my most important emails are always in front of my eyes as part of my ToDos. Whenever I send out an email and need to follow up at a later date, I bcc that email into Evernote and assign the date tags or reminders.

If I need to put some notes for myself, I just type them in the email before forwarding (or in the note after forwarding). For example, when I forward an email with the subject ' Submit end of the year reports #02 Tue' - this email is added to my Tuesday list and to my Finance notebook.Įvery day as I go through my emails, I knock off the easy ones right away and forward the rest of the emails to Evernote with the appropriate Day tags. The subject line of the email becomes the title of the note. When I forward an email into Evernote, I automatically place it on my DoTo list by assigning the Day tag, such as 02 Tue. Tags and notebooks can be assigned by putting special characters into the subject line. Any email sent to that email address automatically becomes a note. You may read more about this feature in How to save email into Evernote. Every Evernote Plus and Premium account has your unique email address. I need to work on an email later, I forward it directly into Evernote and the email is automatically converted into a note. Not anymore with my new Evernote ToDo system! First of all, following the GTD principle, I finish working on an email right away if it takes less than two minutes. All of the color tagging, reminders and switching between ‘read’ and ‘unread’ often becomes an email management nightmare. In other words, emails must become your ToDos that are easily actionable. For most of us, the main challenges with email management are how to flag, notate, schedule, categorize, and follow-up on emails.

Now I’ll share how to integrate your emails into the process.Įssentially, your email Inbox is just another ToDo list. In Part 1, Simple and Effective ToDo Management in Evernote, I showed how to set up and manage ToDos in Evernote.

Making a todo list in evernote