Comments on: In praise of full inboxes

By: mark

mark — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:45:44 +0000

upate to link above….

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:27:34 +0000

Piling is the way to go. I believe it so strongly that I've designed training seminar to eliminate folders all together. http://www.cnxn.ca/Outlook%20Training.htm

By: ClearContext Corporate Weblog

ClearContext Corporate Weblog — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 23:35:42 +0000

Making Email Work Again – ClearContext 2005 Email Usage Survey Analysis

“I’m drowning in email.”

By: ClearContext Corporate Weblog

ClearContext Corporate Weblog — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 00:25:27 +0000

Making Email Work Again – ClearContext 2005 Email Usage Survey Analysis

“I’m drowning in email.”

By: Lifehacker

Lifehacker — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:38:28 +0000

The pilers speak

In a recent post on email Filers versus Pilers (those who organize their email in folders and those who let it live in their inbox indefinitely), I asked Pilers to explain their systems for being responsive and organized with an…

By: On The Go

On The Go — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 01:44:35 +0000

Slacker Manager – In Praise of Full Inboxes

I just made an entry on Slacker Manager’s weblog entry on In praise of full inboxes:

By: Des Paroz

Des Paroz — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:46:59 +0000

I posted these same comments over at Office Zealot GTD Zone as well….

I am definitely a fan of an empty inbox. I’ve been following GTD for over 2 years, and this is consistently one of the key behaviours that I need to work on to get the system right.

There’s just something special about walking away from your office each night, looking back and noting your physical and email inboxes are empty.

For email, we use Lotus Notes. I religiously file emails needing action into my “@Action” folder, and also organise a NA on my Palm. As I utilise mNotes, I sync the @Action folder over to my Palm as well, so whereever I am, I can check the NA list, and still deal with emails in the Notes system.

To me, the empty inbox, projects list and the weekly review are the cornerstones of a successful GTD implementation.

By: Marc Orchant

Marc Orchant — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:58:52 +0000

Bren… not going to do it. Wouldn’t be prudent.

(with apologies to Bush the Elder) ;^)

Check on the comments on my post – I have a lot of support here on the light side!

By: Andreas Weinberger

Andreas Weinberger — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:57:40 +0000

I am working with Outlook and Lookout on two separate PCs (Office PC and Notebook). My personal style of working with Outlook always leads to a empty Inbox:

- check headers and delete everything that´s obviously rubbish
- group by type
- check and answer all meeting requests that are not already out-of-date
- open new E-Mail and read it
- if it needs an action at once, then answer and delete or archive the original mail
- if it needs an action later create a task (mail is moved into the task automatically)

So basically I look into my mailbox from time to time and within minutes it is empty again.

Best wishes

Andreas

By: Bren

Bren — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:51:09 +0000

Mike, I’m with you (thanks for Lookout!)…that ROI is interesting, but I don’t spend any seconds filing. Anything that gets filed, goes there automatically. Stuff from my boss goes into his folder upon receipt, etc… That just helps me visually see which messages are more important to me when they arrive. Over time, everything that’s in a folder gets auto-archived into my ‘Inbox’ archive.

And Marc…c’mon over to the dark side, man! The water’s fine! :-)