Below is a screenshot on how that looks like. When you want to reference a specific note, right click and select “Copy Note Link”. You could write in the tasks’ note “Check note in Evernote entitled instapaper tips” but that’s a little inefficient.įortunately you can link back to specific notes in Evernote within Omnifocus. There will be times when you need to access these notes within a task in Omnifocus. Let’s just assume that you’re sold on going paperless and that you have everything stored in Evernote. Not only is this a great way to get rid of papers but you’ll also be more efficient with finding and referencing documents. Once you have everything stored in Evernote, you can easily look up reference materials by using the search function. We’ve written before how you can go paperless with Evernote – it will save you a lot of headaches and it will make referencing documents a lot easier. If you have a lot of paper based reference materials, we highly suggest to go digital. This allows you to quickly find reference materials – no matter on what platform you are on. If you opt in to pay for the premium version, you can have OCR scanning abilities which means you can search for text within images. Plus its search functionality is very good. It is available on all major platforms, it syncs via the cloud and it is free. This is where Evernote really shines – it excels acting as a file cabinet for your reference materials. In this day and age it’s quite common to have digital reference materials.

Anyone familiar with the Getting Things Done methodology will be familiar with storing them in a single A-Z reference system but the problem with GTD is that is mostly assumes paper reference materials (remember: GTD was written in early 2000s).

Tasks such as “Read this article/magazine” or “Fill out tax form” require you to use reference materials. If you are someone who needs to reference a lot of notes within Omnifocus and you want to use Evernote in conjunction – read on!įor a lot of tasks you need to have reference materials in order to complete them. Individually they are arguably the best at what they do but if you combine them together it’s even better. Evernote is our favorite program for journaling and storing notes while Omnifocus is our favorite task manager.

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