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From Evernote’s site: “While Evernote is immensely useful as a desktop note-taking application, its true power lies in its ability to synchronize your notes to your Evernote account on the Web. This syncing ability is a powerful piece of the TSW solution. The Secret Weapon is a powerful personal productivity method that merges David Allen’s GTD concepts with a program and cloud-based service from Evernote, (EN for short) that allows us to re-organize our emails, ideas, and to-do items into one system that stays synchronized across our varied devices, and has the ability to help us capture ideas when we suddenly come up with them.

It gives each user a remote cloud-based version, for syncing among device/computers.

A quick method for quickly turning PC-based Outlook or Apple Mail email into a new task/ note (this feature alone with transform your life).

It has a Shared section, so groups of people can assign and share tasks/notes.

It has a built-in keyboard shortcut that allows you to quickly add a new task/note, regardless of what application you are in.

It’s completely free (even your online account part).

It has mobile device versions, including iPhone, Android, Palm, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, iPad, and even iPod Touch.

Evernote’s makers call it “the path to a superhuman memory.” The reason it can use this tagline is : The software application Evernote lies at the heart of TSW.

Embark on TSW, using the steps we outline here as a guide.

Install it on all of your computers as well as any smart phone you use.

Install the free software program, Evernote.

If you want to get started without reading Getting Things Done, or simply want a refresher of the basics, Wikipedia has a great GTD overview here. Read (or reread if you’ve already read it) David Allen’s Getting Things Done book.Check out the short animation video here. First read this entire article briefly, to get the big picture and what we’re describing.What’s the result? Controlled, optimized throughput, with “no task left behind.” Quick Overview Once you’ve implemented TSW, each to-do in your life-which has some Action Pending, will be safely organized into its proper contexts, waiting its turn to be brought out and processed. The Secret Weapon is a merging of the GTD concept with a powerful program/service from Evernote, (EN for short) that allows us to re-organize our emails, ideas, and to-do items into one system that stays synchronized across our varied devices, and has the ability to help us capture ideas when we suddenly come up with them.