Evernote Keeping Your Marriage Safe

It used to go like this.

I work from home with my little busy website design business. So instructions from my beloved wife come regularly when she is not working herself.

She pops her head into my office (usually on her way out) and hits you with the list!

1. Don’t forget to collect the dry cleaning.
2. Call the insurance company as it is due. Try and get a better price if you can.
3. When the washing machine is finished can you put another load on please? That shirt you want for tomorrow is top of the pile.

As her car disappeared down the drive the points above would usually be forgotten instantly as work intrudes again.

Now I have been an Evernote user for years. I use it for work notes, personal notes, photos, goals, education you name it. But I never used it for saving my skin.

You may know how it goes. Your wife returns home and checks how those important things went. At this stage the state of play is

1. The dry cleaning is still in the dry cleaners.
2. The house better not burn down as it is possibly not insured.
3. And if you wanted the shirt washed well it may be tomorrow before you see it

The worst part isn’t the not doing these things, it is the wild eyed desperation as you scour your brain trying to remember what you were actually asked to do. Water boarding wouldn’t help. Its a blank.

Now when I hear those instructions I do 3 simple things.

I write a note in Evernote right away, add a tag called wife, and then add a reminder for an hour later to remind me to actually do it.

The results have been great, now I at least don’t forget the list and sometimes they even get done. The happiness index is so much higher because of Evernote and water boarding isn’t required.