You can create stacks in Evernote by dragging tags (or notebooks) on top of each other. That tweaking consists primarily of setting up stacks of tags in Evernote that can serve as contexts in your GTD workflow. I think it took me about an hour to watch all the videos and to tweak Evernote. The good news here is that all the hard work has already been done: the Secret Weapon (TSW) website provides a series of very clear and attractive short videos that explain how to set up Evernote for a GTD workflow. This means that you will have to do some preparatory work to set it up for that purpose. While Evernote can be used as a task manager, it was not designed to be one. Evernote is zenlike in its simplicity, but can it be adapted to support the more complex phases of a GTD workflow? Will it help you process all this information, organise tasks and review priorities? Can it help you to get things done? Or are you better off co-opting a custom-built application like Zendone, which was designed to provide a task management overlay to help you work with the information stored in Evernote? You can sort your information in folders, tag individual items and retrieve your information thanks to a lightning-fast search function. Evernote is eminently well-suited for the ‘collect’ phase of the GTD process: it provides an intuitive, versatile and robust repository for every shred of information that you may wish to collect, whether that be a business card, a recipe or a web page.

One of the core principles of David Allen’s Getting Things Done™ (GTD™) approach to task management is that you need a ‘trusted system’ for capturing all the information, ideas and tasks that come your way.

Tasks in evernote