I decided it was time to go all-in with Evernote. I’ve been toying around with it here and there and trying to figure out how it would fit into my workflow. I had been using Remember The Milk, and while it worked, it never felt quite right. I had read about The Secret Weapon, a GTD process built on Evernote, and tried it once before, but had dropped it because of two perceiving missing items. One was location based reminders, which I could get with RTM’s app, and the other was an easy way to handle recurring tasks without cluttering up my to do list. 

As it so often turns out, I didn’t actually need the location based reminders. So how could I get recurring tasks? Hm. IFTTT could write to Evernote. So now I just needed to figure out how to trigger IFTTT at the right time. If it was just one or two tasks at predictable times, I could probably use the Date & Time trigger. But I want something flexible so I don’t need to create recipes for each task. FInally, it dawned on me. Create entries in Google Calendar, put “[todo]” in the event description, and create an IFTTT trigger for events matching a search to write into my Evernote notebook. 

I guess we’ll know if it works on Friday when I need to clean the litter box.