Note-taking has been extremely important in the past. Even today, people still find themselves taking notes to keep track of almost everything. But with the world always evolving, jotting down everything could be time-consuming or worse – keep you more confused as you get buried in a pile of papers! But the onset of the information age has made this a lot easier as various digital tools are openly accessible to be utilized and keep track of your day-to-day activities.

Frank Buck is a certified Evernote consultant and productivity expert. He started his career in the early 80s when digital fashion was not a trend. He realized it's important to create a single place to handle everything for now – a system that works! Now, he joins the podcast to share more about accomplishing significant goals and understanding your ability to organize your time and surroundings through digital tools.

An old quote goes, "If you read the New York Times for a week, you're going to come across as much information as someone in Shakespeare's time came across in their entire life." Information is all around us, but your information is only as good as your ability to put your hands on it when needed. So, to date, with so much that digitally comes to us, it makes sense to keep things digital. The ability to trap that information in notes has always been important. And it will be much easier if you do it digitally because it's so easy to search for later. For example, the computer started as the center of information, but today Google/Microsoft servers took its place. This is because it provides everyone with the accessibility to their information using phones just as easily as they're getting it from the computer. The only caveat is to utilize software that works well from anywhere is important.

People would like to have the ability to get things in quickly, where you don't have to go from folder to folder to retrieve them. In other words, the search is very good, and you can easily share it with other people. The nice thing with digital notes is when you're thinking of something you're trying to find - not only do you find that easily. But you also find some other notes you had taken on the same subject that you forgot you even had. All those come up in the search quickly.

Evernote offers a free plan, so you can get it anytime in a few easy steps (1) Go to Evernote.com (2) Look and Download Evernote Web Clipper (3) Download the App to your phone.

The whole idea of Evernote is that you would be able to get your note wherever you are. All those little bits of information in small index cards and sticky notes scattered everywhere. With Evernote, you can create a little notebook to store your personal information, from insurance policy number, AARP number, driver's license, etc., in alphabetical order. You can also have a default inbox notebook with a.in front of it, so all incoming mail is sorted from the top of the list dot. So, when you check it later in the day, you can easily sort, review everything, clean, or add as necessary, which will be more helpful to you later.

David Allen was right on the money when he said, "where people mess up is when they start to try to do too much at the same time." For example, if you are in a meeting taking notes and it includes a few deadlines, you flip back to your to-do list and note them there. Essentially you are going back and forth between your to-do list and your calendar. But the principles taught there were, as you're taking notes when you have those two dues in those calendar appointments that come out of that meeting, go ahead and make it part of your...