GTD With Outlook Versus Evernote 3

Submitted by Kevin Kleinfelter on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 13:55

Outlook 2003 Tasks Versus Evernote 3 (Windows Desktop edition)

Advantage Outlook:

  1. You can set a reminder on a task in Outlook.
  2. I've set up nifty Search Folders to give me the following views of Tasks:
  • All Tasks
  • Completed Tasks
  • @errand
  • @everywhere
  • @home
  • @nowhere
  • @office

­

  • Outlook offers more columns (i.e. attributes), where Evernote just has Tags.  This gives me more options for sorting and filtering.

  • Outlook provides easy drag-and-drop email to create a Task.
  • Evernote just does a poor job of formatting.  Really poor.

    • ­Advantage Evernote:

    1. Synchronization across web, Windows, OS X (and yes, I use all 3).
    2. iPhone synch (for when I buy an iPhone).
    3. Evernote is a better reposiitory for other (non-task) information, that I'll be using even if I put my Tasks in Outlook.

    Other Notes:

    • July 23, 2009 - I'm going with Outlook because of the reminders (mostly) and the extra attributes (to a lesser degree).

    Add new comment