actualNoteContentPart: Now that I have finished [explaining why CEOs are useless for productivity advice](https://www.amplenote.com/blog/your_ceo_isnt_a_productivity_expert_who_is) , I want to share my professional CEO advice on productivity. I created this post to share personal examples from an ambitious person using Amplenote to maximize their personal productivity and happiness. The first half will describe the high-level thought process I use to organize my 5,000+ tasks. The [second half](#Example_Amplenote_system_used_by_the_CEO_)  will offer screenshots and examples of how I try to organize my complicated life as CEO and Programmer for two growing products.
  
  If we're being honest, when our small team started building Amplenote back in 2018, it wasn't because we were inspired to create an app with the perfect [Idea Execution Funnel](https://www.amplenote.com/help/idea_execution_funnel_explained) . That concept was years from being backfilled as our raison d'être. Like many of the people who discover Amplenote, we decided to move note apps out of frustration with Evernote. 
  
  Aside from Evernote's many shortcomings, I seriously needed a better way to organize tasks. As a CEO, I've often read how essential it is to "spend more time on important tasks, less time on urgent ones." But my daily task selection was a haphazard mess. The barrier to working on more important tasks was the sheer volume of disparate stuff on my todo list. We had at least 10 projects underway at any given time between our companies. It was both **time**- and **willpower**-intensive to choose which of them was "most important" on a given morning.
  
  By the time we started building Amplenote, there were already **lots** of apps that made it easy to collect a list of ideas. But, at the end of the day, nobody needs that. Paper is fine for collecting a list of ideas. To beat paper, we needed to aim higher. The spark that inspired us most: **what if the list could pick out which** **of its ideas are best to work on today?** That would be a significant advantage over the venerable notepad.
  
  Granted, nobody has done this before. It can't be easy. But, it turns out, there is one source we can tap into to reliably predict which tasks are probably "best to work on today?"
  
  That source: past versions of the list-maker. By harvesting all the decisions of your past selves, [Task Score](https://www.amplenote.com/help/tasks_and_todos_task_score)  gradually sifts out which tasks matter most to you. Many ([like productivity expert Shu Omi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9JG4qw0H3I&t=440) ) consider it our signature feature. The gist is that, the more times you look at a prospective task, the more chances you have to refine it, dismiss it, or do it. Especially if the task is quick to get done, or [Important](https://www.amplenote.com/help/define_urgent_and_important) , it deserves repeat consideration.
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  Now that I have finished [explaining why CEOs are useless for productivity advice](https://www.amplenote.com)`
   , I want to share my professional CEO advice on productivity. I created this post to share personal examples from an ambitious person using Amplenote to maximize their personal productivity and happiness. The first half will describe the high-level thought process I use to organize my 5,000+ tasks. The [second half](#Example_Amplenote_system_used_by_the_CEO_)
    will offer screenshots and examples of how I try to organize my complicated life as CEO and Programmer for two growing products. If we're being honest, when our small team started building Amplenote back in 2018, it wasn't because we were inspired to create an app with the perfect [Idea Execution Funnel](https://www.amplenote.com)`
   . That concept was years from being backfilled as our raison d'être. Like many of the people who discover Amplenote, we decided to move note apps out of frustration with Evernote. Aside from Evernote's many shortcomings, I seriously needed a better way to organize tasks. As a CEO, I've often read how essential it is to "spend more time on important tasks, less time on urgent ones." But my daily task selection was a haphazard mess. The barrier to working on more important tasks was the sheer volume of disparate stuff on my todo list. We had at least 10 projects underway at any given time between our companies. It was both time
  - and willpower
  -intensive to choose which of them was "most important" on a given morning. By the time we started building Amplenote, there were already lots
   of apps that made it easy to collect a list of ideas. But, at the end of the day, nobody needs that. Paper is fine for collecting a list of ideas. To beat paper, we needed to aim higher. The spark that inspired us most: what if the list could pick out which
   of its ideas are best to work on today?
   That would be a significant advantage over the venerable notepad. Granted, nobody has done this before. It can't be easy. But, it turns out, there is one source we can tap into to reliably predict which tasks are probably "best to work on today?" That source: past versions of the list-maker. By harvesting all the decisions of your past selves, [Task Score](https://www.amplenote.com)`
    gradually sifts out which tasks matter most to you. Many ( [like productivity expert Shu Omi](https://www.youtube.com)`
   ) consider it our signature feature. The gist is that, the more times you look at a prospective task, the more chances you have to refine it, dismiss it, or do it. Especially if the task is quick to get done, or [Important](https://www.amplenote.com)`
   , it deserves repeat consideration.
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