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If you're thinking of how to become more productive in today's generation where distractions are surrounding you. With the advent of the internet and the help of the creative minds today, the combined power of Evernote and The Secret Weapon is the answer. It takes a little practice and this tutorial will help you with how you can easily set it up.

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How to useEVERNOTETheSecret Weapon&EVERNOTEEvernote is simply a Note-taking App that enables you to be your most productiveEverything you store in your Evernote account is automatically synced across all of your devices.Search and edit your notes everywhere you have Evernote, including smartphones, tablets, computers and on the Web.Go to Google!First, we have to get the Evernote to your computer!

Type in Evernote

Click the Link

Click Download

Notice the little green icon, that means that your computer is now downloading Evernote.Run the installer!Follow the steps in the installer.It only takes a minute.

Click to open Evernote.

Type your Email

Type your preferred Password

Click Register

Click Get Started

Click on Create a note

Click New Note

Type your preferred Title for your Note

Type in your Note here!

Tip:If you like ticking off items on your to-do list, you may also switch to Tick Box.Just select all the items inside your Note by left-clicking hold your mouse and dragging to items or (Ctrl+A), and click the Tick Box Icon.

Click the tick box to change to Tick Box instead of Numbers.

Tick off the items by Left-Clicking your mouse inside the box.Now, Lets create a Notebook.

Click Create a Notebook.

Click New Notebook

Type your preferred Name for your Notebook

Click OKTip:You may place your first Note:Toasted Bread inside your first Notebook:Recipe

Right-Click your Mouse.

Click Move To Notebook.

Click your prefered Notebook

Click MoveNow, We have a Note and a Notebook.Lets try sharing our Notebook!

Click Share a Note

Click Share

Type the preferred Email you want to share your Notes with.

Click SendNow, We are going to combine the power of Evernote and The Secret Weapon.+

=MAXIMUM PRODUCTIVITYThe Secret WeaponThe Secret Weapon is a merging of the GTD (Getting-Things Done) and Evernote, (EN for short) that allows us to re-organize our emails, ideas, and to-do items into one system that stays synchronized across our varied devicesIt has the ability to help us capture ideas when we suddenly come up with themwww.thesecretweapon.orgGo to The Secret Weapon Website

Click The Secret Weapon Manifesto

Click Setting Up The Secret WeaponBased on The Secret WeaponWe need to create the following Three Notebooks:1. Cabinet2. Action Pending3. Completed

Click File

Click New Notebook

Type in Cabinet

Click OK

Click on File

Click New Notebook

Type Action Pending

Click OK

Click on File

Click New Notebook

Type Completed

Click OK

We have added the notebooks. Next, We have to Create Initial TagsTags are contexts you can use to differentiate notes from one another based on their content and priority.What.When.Where.Who.Active Projects.Inactive Projects

!Daily1-Now2-Next3-Soon4-Later5-Someday6-Waiting

@home@work@ townRead/Review

Click File

Click New Tag

Type .What

Click OK

The Tags get added here.

Click New Tag

Type .When

Click OK

Click New Tag

Type .Where

Click OK

Click New Tag

Type .Who

Click OK

We now have Four Header TagsTip:The who/what/where/when tags are what we call Header Tags, and we denote these by placing a . (period) in front of each one.It forces them to the top of the Tag listIt also reminds us to not use them as an assigned context;As youll see, theyre just folder names for the related tags/contexts that we can nest below them.We have to do Nesting as what TSW calls it:It is simply to create Related/Context Tags inside the Header tags.

You have to add the Context Tags inside the Header Tag .What.Active Projects.Inactive ProjectsDistributionIdeasMarketingSales

First, Right-Click .What

Type in .Active Projects

And Click OK!

You should see the Context Tag added inside .What.Lets add the rest of the Context Tags inside the Header Tag .What by doing exactly the same steps.

You should have 6 Context Tags added inside .What.

Next, Add Context Tags to Header Tag .When

We have to add this Context Tags!Daily1-Now2-Next3-Soon4-Later5-Someday6-Waiting

Right-Click .When

Type !Daily

Click OK!

You should see the Context Tags added here.

Add, the Context Tags to Header Tag .Where@home@work@ town

Click Create Tag in .Where

Type @home

Click OK!

After adding all the Context Tags

Right-Click .Who

Click Create Tag in .Who

Type your preferred Name

Click OK!

Now you have Context Tags for .WhoThis is how it should look.

Header Tags

Context TagsNow you are ready to use the power of Evernote and TheSecret Weapon to achieve more!

Whats Next?You can download The Secret Weapon Manifesto or go to www.TheSecretWeapon.com and follow the steps exactly.

Type The Secret WeaponCreate your First TSW To-Do!

Click The Secret Weapon Manifesto

Click Your First TSW To-DoGood Luck!I hope that this Tutorial has helped you.The End