“I found some notes from May 2019 that were really useful to our business.

Stephens completed this type of review a few days before our interview. This review process enables you to see interesting connections between different notes and find ideas you'd forgotten. Set aside thirty minutes each week to review recently captured notes. Evernote will suggest how notes relate to each other, but you really need to dive into your notebook and see what's inside. The real value from any notebook lies in reviewing what's inside and seeing how different ideas relate to each other.

“Now, I really err on the side of very few notebooks, rather than trying to have a notebook for everything, then, being giddy with my tags because there's so many ways to cross tag.” It was the equivalent of a file cabinet, and I was just cramming everything into it with no rhyme or reason,” she says. “Five or six years ago, I had to retrain myself because I was getting really sloppy. I usually add five or six tags to individual notes including “creativity” and “productivity,” as well as “work” and “career.” Another is “money.” Stephens follows a similar approach. I can also save these notebooks to a desktop or local computer for offline access. After reviewing them, I file these notes into the Archive notebook. For example, my primary notebooks are Inbox and Archive.

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