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.

For years now, I've thought that November, the month for the National Novel Writing Month, would be the motivating prompt to write my next book. Not a novel -- yet -- but I did want to draft another computer book under the #NaNoWriMo-inspired #pragprowrimo umbrella.

This year, I'm in the middle of launching a consulting/training business to help people use their digital technology (computers, phones) more productively. One of the most important part of that work is to write clearly and consistently about what my business is about: what's its mission, whom do I plan to serve, and the specific services I will provide.

To that end, I'm committing myself to write something coherent every day of November for what I'll playfully call #MyBizWriMo. The pieces don't have to be grand, but they do need to be coherent. So this simple post serves as my first installment.