26 October 06
Inbox Zero
In the fit of organization that has overtaken me as a result of my office move, I’ve been inspired to tackle my email box. Merlin Mann’s series Inbox Zero has proved very helpful. One day into the experiment, my inbox is indeed at zero, and life is good. You just have to be drastic, and make liberal use of the delete key. And most importantly, keep on doing that.
Besides, email may be dying off as a medium anyway.
- Your post inspired me to do an email dash today to get my email box back to zero, which I’ve been doing moderately successfully the last few months, and reading the miniseries on Inbox Zero was full of other good tips. The great thing about zero inbox is that once you do it, you never want to go back to the old life again; it become its own motivator.— Tim 27. October 2006, 13:09 Link
- Wow. I must look into this. I never delete any email, ever. My archive is so big it’s almost filled up my memory allocation on the university network. I do sometimes find that one vital email from years ago and it saves the day, but more often I don’t find it because there is too much there and it’s not sufficiently well classified – ridiculous!— Jean 31. October 2006, 03:51 Link
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