Inbox: of course Outlook will be our email inbox. If we quickly review the GTD flowchart, the appropriate tools to use in every repository would be: …GTD with an Outlook + Onenote combination is the best option.

It is in this context that incorporating OneNote makes sense. Its only remarkable advantage is being the everyday reference tool for millions of knowledge workers all around the world, allowing them to stay with their usual interface. Making GTD with Outlook –only Outlook- is feasible, but a little bit cumbersome, wiith specific regard to projects. …are conditioned by their IT Corporate rules, which usually limit choices to MS Outook.For example, Zendone, iQTell or Nozbe.īut what I find very often in my productivity workshops is that users…

There are a bunch of good possibilities out there. Usually we try to use as few tools as possible when implementing GTD.

In contrast to what happens with Evernote, surfing the Internet in search of advice and best practices using OneNote for GTD does not offer many results. The second piece of evidence is not so obvious, but still concludent. There are guides for Outlook, for Evernote, for Lotus Notes, for iPhone… but not for OneNote. The first proof of my statement comes from the configuration guides list by the David Allen Company.

But… nothing around us is so simple and easy, so I’m afraid we must go into detail. It would be short and precise, and you would feel the joy of finishing a task in much less time than expected. To be rigorous and honest, the first sentence of this “GTD with OneNote” titled article should be: OneNote is not a tool to implement GTD. GTD with OneNote 2013 Rafa García - №30 with Derek Sivers

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