You have a visual mess and it leaves you feeling overwhelmed and stressed. Worse, you don’t even know what you’re missing. You can’t easily find the information contained on papers that you know are in the box. Without regular processing, you lose track of what’s in the tray. And, If you neglect the papers in that tray, over time, the pile will overflow, leaving that inbox essentially nonfunctional. Those papers all have a purpose - you have to deal with them. They all have an inbox tray sitting on top as a centralized collection point for incoming papers from various sources. 📥 Think about your run-of-the-mill office desk.

To understand the importance and value of this habit, let’s look at an example of processing from the physical world. In this context, I’m talking about the action you take inside your Evernote account, of moving notes from the location you create the note (usually your default notebook) into another notebook (the place where your note ultimately lives where it feels organized). Process what comes into your Evernote default notebook on a regular basis and make it part of your routine.

Gtd con evernote