Author: Dave Edwards
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Not Being Busy Is a Huge Advantage
Many people believe being busy equals success. The greatest advantage often comes from doing less: people who leave space in their schedules are able to spot opportunities—and seize them—while others miss out.
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Don’t Forget Your Next Great Idea
Our brains aren’t very good at helping us remember everything we find interesting. When you make time to write down your next great idea, you are less likely to forget it.
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Evernote Mermaid Diagrams Made Easy
Evernote added a simple way to create charts, graphs, and org charts inside your notes. Mermaid diagrams can be used for visual note-taking and team planning.
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Evernote Sharing: What the Share Button Can Do For You
You can share Evernote notes in seconds, yet some users choose the wrong option.
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Why Top Talent Leaves (And How to Keep Them)
Great companies don’t happen by accident. They are built by the people who work there. The quality of your team shapes the future of your business. Let’s look at how to build an organization that people want to work for.
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Should You Split Your Productivity System?
Should you use one productivity system or split your productivity system in two? It can be challenging to balance the needs of both your professional and personal lives.
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Why Leadership Is Mostly a Battle for Time
Leading an organization may look simple from the outside, yet the role imposes heavy demands. The head of an organization must guide people, manage time, and balance many competing needs every day.
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Evernote Helps Create Titles
If you don’t do a good job setting titles for your notes, your Evernote account gets messy. But using its built-in AI feature, you can get some help.
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Build Your Own Reference System in Evernote
If you are only using Evernote as a place to keep projects and your notes, you are missing out on the opportunity to build a powerful reference system.
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Non-Profit Board Recruitment Tips That Always Work
Many nonprofits struggle with board recruitment, even with a strong mission. Why do some nonprofit boards thrive while others stall? A few smart nonprofit board strategies can change everything.
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GTD Time Blocking- Are You Doing It Wrong?
Many people read Getting Things Done and still feel confused about calendars and task lists. Then they hear about time blocking, and things get even murkier. So how do you follow the GTD method and still block time to get work done?
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Easy vs Hard Tasks — What To Do First?
When your workload grows, do you choose easy tasks or hard tasks first? Research on productivity and task choice shows that this simple habit shapes long-term performance. The twist is that what feels efficient today may quietly limit your growth tomorrow.
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Evernote Updates: Pinned Tabs, Wrapped Images, and Calendar Problems
Evernote has added a way to pin tabs and wrap text around images. But they have also recognized problems with calendar integration. Here’s what we know.
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Book Notes: A World Appears – A Journey Into Consciousness
Have you ever thought about your own consciousness? Our inner voice and thought process is different from those who observe us. They have their own consciousness. Despite that being a topic most of us have thought about, we know very little about our conscious thought.
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Change Default Font in Evernote
Your Evernote notes don’t have to look the same forever. Default font settings control how every new note starts.
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Doing This Will Prevent Staff Burnout
Do long work hours really lead to better results, or just more burnout? Research on productivity and leadership tells a different story than hustle culture.
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Getting Things Done When There’s Too Much To Do
Sometimes, even GTD author David Allen feels that there’s not enough time to do all that needs to be done. He offers some advice.
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Book Summary: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
Book Summary The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great MigrationIsabel Wilkerson 2011 – Vintage – 640 pages Dave’s Summary The Warmth of Other Suns tells the story of the Great Migration through the lives of three Black Americans who left the South in search of freedom and dignity. Pulitzer-Price-winning author Isabel Wilkerson follows…
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What I Read in April
This month, I continued my journey of reading about American Presidents and key figures in our nation’s development. The biography of JFK was one of the best. But the book about our efforts to clamp down on Russia and Vladimir Putin was a fascinating look at how difficult it is to impact another nation despite our…
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Evernote Shortcut Hack
Discover a simple trick that can put your most important notes just one click away.
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How to Give Feedback Without Upsetting Your Team
Think giving tough feedback will hurt morale? Done correctly, it actually motivates, clarifies expectations, and strengthens team spirit.
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Using GTD To Manage Projects on Paper
Much has been written about going paperless. But you can manage projects and be faithful to the Getting Things Done methodology using paper.
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Why Busy People Still Get Nothing Done
Most people don’t have a time problem. They have a focus-and-energy problem. I’ve seen how easy it is to stay busy yet finish nothing
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Do You Have To Be A Morning Person To Be Successful?
You’ve probably heard the most successful people are those who get up as the birds start to sing. Apple CEO Tim Cook starts his day at 3:45am, and Richard Branson rises at 5:45am. But what if you consider yourself a night owl? Should you force yourself to change?
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Create A Knowledge Base Using Evernote
Most of us track projects using Evernote, but with a little work, it can become your own Wikipedia or Google search engine.
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Book Notes: An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
Historian Robert Dallek should be commissioned to write a book about every American president. “An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy” is one of the best books about the 35th president. He used information, including documents, Oval Office tapes, to share some information not previously known.
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Evernote Templates That Save You Time
Do you keep making the same Evernote notes again and again? There’s a faster way using Evernote templates, and a lot of people miss it.
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Giving Clear Feedback Builds Better Teams
Ever wonder why feedback often lands wrong, even with good intent? Clear feedback helps leaders boost employee performance and trust.
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Email Can Make You More Productive Again
Email management is the real key to productivity and time management.
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The Difference Between Being Busy and Being Productive
Some people are proud to say that they are always busy. They see this as a sign that they are hardworking and productive, but being hardworking is not usually the same as being productive.
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New Evernote Features You Need to See
Evernote has made an important change to its audio recording feature, as well as providing greater flexibility to the table of contents, and giving the AI assistant more power.
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I’ve Stopped Using this Evernote Feature
Evernote has lots of great features, but I’ve stopped using one of them. Let me show you why.
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Customizing Evernote’s Sidebar Creates More Focus
There’s a simple way to reduce clutter and make important elements more visible in Evernote. Customizing your sidebar will help you stay focused.
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Why Calm Leaders Get Better Results Under Pressure
Teams don’t panic on their own. They follow their manager’s lead. Staying calm at work is a core leadership skill.
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Why Meetings Kill Team Productivity and How to Fix Them
Meetings can quickly become unproductive and slow down a group’s work. In their book, Productivity experts David Allen and Edward Lamont share strategies for changing a team’s behavior.
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Is AI The Solution to Email Management?
We’re getting used to using AI, but are we getting closer to it managing your email?
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Happy People Are More Productive
Can happiness at work really boost productivity and career growth? Studies on workplace happiness show a link that may change how you lead and work.
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Evernote Updates Semantic Search & AI Assist
The latest updates to Evernote include changes to semantic search and the AI Assistant, and we look at sharing notes with people who don’t use the app.
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Books I Read In March
I’ve been interested in reading as many books as I can about American Presidents. I read about two American Presidents this month. Both were interesting for very different reasons. I also enjoyed a background book on the development of artificial intelligence and a fun book of Benjamin Franklin’s sayings.
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The Dark Side of Evernote
You may have noticed that some people use dark mode on their online apps. Evernote’s is better than most.
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Hire Great People
Most companies chase perfect resumes and lose great people. There’s a better hiring plan that builds strong teams. I’ll show you how it works.
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How to Turn Email Into a Productivity Tool
Email can be your best productivity tool or your biggest headache. The difference comes down to simple daily habits.
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Say “No” To Another Meeting
We’ve all sat through meetings that have been a waste of our time. Here is how to either make meetings better or how to avoid the useless ones.
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Catch Up On The Latest Updates to Evernote
Evernote just rolled out new features for AI Assistant, a new way to display tasks, and a new way to add emojis.
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Book Notes: Shortest History of AI
Book Notes The Shortest History of AI Toby Walsh 2025 – The Experiment – 207 pages Dave’s Summary Artificial intelligence is around us every day. It’s not going away. But don’t worry, it can’t think, and it is not about to do away with its human inventors. Toby Walsh’s book, “The Shortest History of AI,”…
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Using “Spaces” To Collaborate in Evernote
Evernote Spaces is now available to all users and offers a simple way to build shared workspaces for notes, files, and projects.
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The Secret to Being a Better Boss
Most bosses work hard to be good leaders. But what happens if you discover your team feels underappreciated? Here’s a simple approach to becoming a better boss who builds real trust.
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How I Mastered GTD with a Simple Paper System
Many people think digital tools are the only way to master GTD. But what if a simple paper system could make you more productive than any app? Today, I’ll show you how I did it.
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