If so, I would need to create a new writing task. The default context I have set for the omnifocus folder is ‘think/plan’: I need to decide whether to put in for an award. paste the link to the evernote entry in the notes field of the omnifocus task.Īs you can see from the screenshots, I have set up a ‘lit awards’ folder in evernote and a ‘track awards’ folder in omnifocus.enter the name of the competition as a task in omnifocus.I then switch to omnifocus for the next steps:

right-click the note thumbnail or snippet and select ‘copy note link’.click the button on the menu bar to synch the information with the evernote server.copy and paste the information about the award into evernote.This is what I do when I come across a literary award that I might be interested in: I obtain my information about literary awards mainly through the writers victoria newsletter and twitter. How can you capture snippets of information, regain an overview and build a platform that you can use for action? If literary awards are ‘not your thing’, you may still be interested in the principle of storing information in evernote and tracking associated tasks and deadlines though omnifocus. This post describes how I am trying to turn the tide of information overload and chaos in one area of my life by using evernote and omnifocus to keep track of literary awards that I learn about via twitter or newsletters. You, my friend, may be suffering from informatosis. You face a forest of factoids, a twirl of tweets, hystËricÅl hyperlinks – you feel like abandoning your 1,274 facebook friends and retreat into the cave of caveats. Findlay alley, melbourne, 2008 (image: ozengo purplezengoat)ĭoes this sound familiar: you subscribe to a newsletter because you are interested in a topic the newsletters start arriving in your inbox, brimming with superbly relevant information, yet after a while you feel overwhelmed rather than stimulated.

Copy evernote tasks to omnifocus