In a month, my subscription to Evernote Premium is set to renew for another year. Since I've been an Evernote user for almost ten years -- and an active one for the last seven -- I'm almost certain to pay the $70 to retain the Premium account. Save for the web browser, my email client, and the core utilities of the operating system, Evernote is the most important application in my digital world. It is also the closest thing to being my personal information manager. It's where I make to do lists, plan my business, clip receipts, track my commitments. Evernote is also the first application I turn to draft any document small or large.

As part of my consulting, I plan to help people with Evernote: how to set up Evernote, how to organize notes using tags and notebooks, and how to integrate Evernote with other applications (perhaps with custom programming). I'm particularly keen to work with others on using Evernote to implement various productivity methodologies, such as David Allen's Getting Things Done. I'm currently running a GTD system on top of Evernote, a variant on The Secret Weapon: Evernote and GTD smoothly integrated into TSW. My system is a bit of a homebrew and likely doesn't match TSW exactly. It probably also doesn't match how The David Allen Company would say how to use Evernote. But it would be useful to describe exactly how my system works -- as part of my formalization process at the very least: more later.

I've joined the Evernote Community Program and will figure out whether to move up the tiers to become an Evernote Certified Consultant. I hope to get to know other members of the Evernote community, to learn from them about what it takes to be helpful to Evernote users in general.