![]() This is my task manager, and has the wonderful feature of being able to link with Evernote with a single click in Evernote. This is where the list resides until I am ready to take action on the items There are two tools used to make this work: I have a fairly straightforward process for managing my Someday list in Evernote. I needed to solve the problem of pulling things out. So even though I now had the site contents saved, solving the problem of defunct websites, and I had tags, solving the problem of not finding things, I still had a giant list. ![]() So I weeded out, and moved the things I still wanted to do over to Evernote. And about 50% of them pointed to sites that were no longer up and functioning. Then I went through my bookmark manager at one point, realizing I had thousands of bookmarks reaching back years. The advantage was that you could tag these bookmarks. Then online bookmark managers came to be, and I moved all my bookmarks there. And the bookmarks grew so large that I couldn’t find anything. With the first browsers, I started making bookmarks to sites that I wanted to do something with: read later or some other action. My Someday ListĮven knowing as I do the dangers of a slush pile, I still fell victim to the endless list. So the ginormous list of things you might want to do, unless you regularly pull things out, is worthless. If you can’t or won’t get data out of a system, why put it in at all? It’s wasted effort/time/money. The problem with any sort of list is that if you keep stuffing things into it, without removing items in turn, it becomes a giant slush pile of un-acted-upon ideas.Īs an IT data professional, I can tell you that a system where you only put things in, without the ability or inclination to take it out again, is a failure. David Allen, in Getting Things Done, recommended having a Someday/Maybe list, where all of these ideas reside. ![]() Most people have moments when they see something and think, “I’d like to do that someday.” If you’re not going to forget about it, that means you either have to do it right now or write it down somewhere so you won’t forget.
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