Evernote for Lawyers

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I have been using Evernote for seven years. It has become an integral part of my legal practice, and, in fact, I am at a point where I use it to the exclusion of paper documents. One of the many things I use it for is legal research; I save my research by tagging general and specific subject matters so that much later I can return to research that I previously did. This allows me to have a quick turn around time in drafting points and authorities and responding to questions.

I have developed my own system of notebooks and tags. I keep notebooks for clients, and I tag within the notebook by the client name and the general topic, e.g., “Smith - Communications” or “Smith - Motion to Dismiss.” I have notebooks for each month to put upcoming projects. It has been a work in progress over the years.

I obtained this book to see what I was doing wrong. Honestly, I didn't get much use out of it. The author, David Ward, uses a system called “GTD” which I could not make much sense of. Candidly, I need more pictures or screenshots to illustrate what the author is talking about. Also, I could not see how to integrate GTD into my system and it seemed to me that there were pieces that I needed to cover that were not addressed by GTD or elsewhere in the book.

The value of the book was pretty much limited to incidental tips and suggestions, which I am happy to use.