Hi All,
Newbie here to GTD. I've recently started a new job as an engineering manager and know that my personal task management systems of my old days, or lack there of, would prevent me from succeeding in my new role . I came across GTD when researching productivity methods and I think it could be a very good fit for me. I'm currently about 75% through the GTD book and am starting to consider my different options for how to setup my GTD system and would appreciate the advice of some experienced GTD veterans.
I would prefer to go all digital if possible and I'm looking for recommendations for applications which work on Windows and Android. I was a little surprised to find in my research that most people seem to use separate note taking and task management applications. I thought there would be a application out there which provides both good note taking and task management toolsets but that doesn't seem to be the case. For reference, I'll typically be taking notes either directly on a laptop or handwritten on my Samsung Tab S7+ tablet with the stylus.
I'm in a lot of meetings as part of my job and therefore take a lot of meeting notes. Within a single meeting note, l typically write down several unique actions which I need to address and would like to then sync these into a task manager Inbox as individual tasks or new projects. Many of the smart automation tools I've looked at (Zapier, Pleexy, etc) seem to only be able to link at the entire note level and not down to items within the note (ie. Zapier can make a new task for the whole note in a task app but can't make 4 individual tasks for the actual actions I have written down within the note). Is that correct?
From a time management perspective, copying all of my actions from a note app and entering them into a task tracking app manually seems incredibly wasteful which is why I have to imagine that someone has already solved this problem. Does anyone have a recommendations for apps which work well for this type of automation? Using OneNote as an example, I would love it if there was a way to make every To-Do checkbox item within a note automatically sync into a task manager as a new task.
What I'm currently exploring as apps to use are the following. I'm open to all ideas and suggestions though on what would work best with the smoothest integration and I'm ok with paying for premium subscriptions if needed. Support for handwritten notes in the Notes apps isn't 100% required but would be a strongly nice-to-have feature given my current note taking style.
Note taking: OneNote, Samsung Notes, EverNote, Notion (not sure if Notion is better for notes or task management or could be used for both)
Task Manager: Todoist, Microsoft ToDo, Notion
Thanks for the help and advice.
Newbie here to GTD. I've recently started a new job as an engineering manager and know that my personal task management systems of my old days, or lack there of, would prevent me from succeeding in my new role . I came across GTD when researching productivity methods and I think it could be a very good fit for me. I'm currently about 75% through the GTD book and am starting to consider my different options for how to setup my GTD system and would appreciate the advice of some experienced GTD veterans.
I would prefer to go all digital if possible and I'm looking for recommendations for applications which work on Windows and Android. I was a little surprised to find in my research that most people seem to use separate note taking and task management applications. I thought there would be a application out there which provides both good note taking and task management toolsets but that doesn't seem to be the case. For reference, I'll typically be taking notes either directly on a laptop or handwritten on my Samsung Tab S7+ tablet with the stylus.
I'm in a lot of meetings as part of my job and therefore take a lot of meeting notes. Within a single meeting note, l typically write down several unique actions which I need to address and would like to then sync these into a task manager Inbox as individual tasks or new projects. Many of the smart automation tools I've looked at (Zapier, Pleexy, etc) seem to only be able to link at the entire note level and not down to items within the note (ie. Zapier can make a new task for the whole note in a task app but can't make 4 individual tasks for the actual actions I have written down within the note). Is that correct?
From a time management perspective, copying all of my actions from a note app and entering them into a task tracking app manually seems incredibly wasteful which is why I have to imagine that someone has already solved this problem. Does anyone have a recommendations for apps which work well for this type of automation? Using OneNote as an example, I would love it if there was a way to make every To-Do checkbox item within a note automatically sync into a task manager as a new task.
What I'm currently exploring as apps to use are the following. I'm open to all ideas and suggestions though on what would work best with the smoothest integration and I'm ok with paying for premium subscriptions if needed. Support for handwritten notes in the Notes apps isn't 100% required but would be a strongly nice-to-have feature given my current note taking style.
Note taking: OneNote, Samsung Notes, EverNote, Notion (not sure if Notion is better for notes or task management or could be used for both)
Task Manager: Todoist, Microsoft ToDo, Notion
Thanks for the help and advice.