- This document provides a tutorial on how to set up Evernote and The Secret Weapon (TSW) system for maximum productivity. It explains how to download and install Evernote, create notes and notebooks, and add tags for organization. It also outlines how to set up the three core TSW notebooks (Cabinet, Action Pending, Completed) and add header and context tags for categorization of notes. Following these steps allows the user to take advantage of Evernote's syncing abilities across devices and TSW's method for organizing tasks and projects.

1. How to use
EVERNOTE
The
Secret
Weapon
&

2. EVERNOTE
- Evernote is simply a Note-taking App that
enables you to be your most productive
- Everything 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.

3. Go to Google!
First, we have to get the
Evernote to your computer!

4. Type in Evernote

5. Click the Link

6. Click Download

7. Notice the little green icon, that means that your
computer is now downloading Evernote.

8. Run the installer!
Follow the steps in the installer.
It only takes a minute.

9. Click to open Evernote.

10. Type your Email

11. Type your preferred Password

12. Click “Register”

13. Click “Get Started”

14. Click on “Create a note”

15. Click “New Note”

16. Type your preferred Title for your Note

17. Type in your Note here!

19. 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.

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

21. Tick off the items by Left-Clicking your
mouse inside the box.

22. Now, Let’s create a Notebook.

23. Click “Create a Notebook.”

25. Click New “Notebook”

26. Type your preferred Name for your
Notebook

27. Click “OK”

28. Tip:
You may place your first Note:Toasted
Bread inside your first Notebook:Recipe

29. Right-Click your Mouse.

30. Click “Move To Notebook.”

31. Click your prefered “Notebook”

32. Click “Move”

33. Now, We have a Note and a Notebook.
Let’s try sharing our Notebook!

34. Click “Share a Note”

35. Click “Share”

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

37. Click Send

38. Now, We are going to combine the power
of Evernote and The Secret Weapon.

39. +
=
MAXIMUM
PRODUCTIVITY

40. The Secret Weapon
- The 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 devices
- It has the ability to help us capture ideas when we
suddenly come up with them

41. www.thesecretweapon.org
Go to The Secret Weapon Website

42. Click The Secret Weapon Manifesto

43. Click Setting Up The Secret Weapon

44. Based on The Secret Weapon
We need to create the following Three Notebooks:
1. Cabinet
2. Action Pending
3. Completed

45. Click “File”

46. Click “New Notebook”

47. Type in Cabinet

48. Click “OK”

49. Click on File

50. Click New Notebook

51. Type Action Pending

52. Click OK

53. Click on File

54. Click New Notebook

55. Type Completed

56. Click OK

57. We have added the notebooks.

58. Next, We have to Create Initial Tags
Tags are contexts you can use to differentiate
notes from one another based on their
content and priority

59. .What
.When
.Where
.Who
.Active Projects
.Inactive Projects

60. !Daily
1-Now
2-Next
3-Soon
4-Later
5-Someday
6-Waiting

61. @home
@work
@ town
Read/Review

62. Click “File”

63. Click “New Tag”

64. Type .What

65. Click “OK”

66. The Tags get added here.

67. Click “New Tag”

68. Type .When

69. Click “OK”

70. Click “New Tag”

71. Type .Where

72. Click “OK”

73. Click “New Tag”

74. Type .Who

75. Click “OK”

76. We now have Four Header Tags

77. Tip:
- 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 list
- It also reminds us to not use them as an assigned
context;
- As you’ll see, they’re just folder names for the
related tags/contexts that we can nest below them.

78. We have to do Nesting as what TSW calls it:
- It is simply to create Related/Context Tags
inside the Header tags.

79. You have to add the Context Tags
inside the Header Tag .What
.Active Projects
.Inactive Projects
Distribution
Ideas
Marketing
Sales

80. First, Right-Click .What

81. Type in .Active Projects

82. And Click OK!

83. You should see the Context Tag added inside .What.

84. Let’s add the rest of the Context Tags
inside the Header Tag “.What” by doing
exactly the same steps.

85. You should have 6 Context Tags added inside
.What.

86. Next, Add Context Tags to Header Tag “.When”

87. We have to add this Context Tags
!Daily
1-Now
2-Next
3-Soon
4-Later
5-Someday
6-Waiting

88. Right-Click .When

89. Type !Daily

90. Click OK!

91. You should see the Context Tags added here.

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

93. Click Create Tag in “.Where”

94. Type @home

95. Click OK!

96. After adding all the Context Tags

97. Right-Click “.Who”

98. Click Create Tag in “.Who”

99. Type your preferred Name

100. Click OK!

101. Now you have Context Tags for “.Who”

102. This is how it should look.

103. Header Tags

104. Context Tags

105. Now you are ready to use the power of
Evernote and TheSecret Weapon to achieve
more!
What’s Next?
You can download The Secret Weapon
Manifesto or go to www.TheSecretWeapon.com
and follow the steps exactly.

106. Type The Secret Weapon

107. Create your First TSW To-Do!

108. Click “The Secret Weapon Manifesto”

109. Click “Your First TSW To-Do”

110. Good Luck!
I hope that this Tutorial has helped you.

111. The End