Project Inbox Zero

Posted by: justinmoss on: November 1, 2008

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Your inbox is not a to-do list

Merlin Mann is a golden god! … at least in terms of what he’s done by helping thousands of people tame their inbox. In his one hour podcast/video (a lecture given to  Google employees in 2007) he makes many salient points about the use [misuse] of email as a ‘to do’ list.  For me, the main takeaways were:

• Process your inbox (to zero) each day – aim to have zero emails each day (10 mins habit)
• Action each email – Delete (or Archive), Delegate [Diarise], Respond, Defer,  Do
• Devolve complicated folder taxonomies (when do you really use them)
• Systems are anal but useful – so make it simple
• Time and attention are finite – why tax it more than necessary?
• Filters can be useful, but again, keep them simple

Links: 43 Folder Inbox Zero Project | The Video

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Tags: GTD, Merlin Mann