Email is King. But don’t let the king rule you. Don’t depend on your email. Don’t be re-active but pro-active and decide how to deal with email – it’s the first part of the series:
Question: How do you get a life outside of email? Does Email rule you or do you rule email?
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#1 by lmau on November 10th, 2009
Good 2 minute show !
I use 2 of the tips (no sorting in many folders, no preview).
I did not yet disable the email notification, I may try it.
Another think I do is to have 5 folders as defined in GTD.
@Inbox, where email comes
@action : email waiting an action from me
@waiting-for : email for which I’m waiting an answer
@review/read
@done : all the “finished email”
Few times in the day, I scan my inbox, and according to GTD method, I dispatch in the good folder ( action / waiting for/to read / done), or I answer (if less than 2 minutes).
So in fact, all my messages are in @done, and the challenge is to keep the others empty.
I works for me.
ps : your 2 minutes show is … a 3 minutes show today !
#2 by Michael Sliwinski on January 13th, 2010
I like your folder setup with email. I’ll think about the waiting-for folder which makes a perfect sense.
I put review/read with action as my [reply] folder together.
@done is my Gmail arichve.
Thanks for your great comment.
My newest video in 2010 is exactly 2 minutes… and I’ll try to make sure to keep them only 2 minutes long.