[…] Quick tips on processing your email inbox - “The basic idea is to firewall processing as a discrete phase you go through no more than every hour or two at the most. For God’s sake, don’t live in your Inbox if there’s any way you can avoid it.” […]

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[…] Wondering if 43 Folders had practical advice to back up his insightful observation of the email inbox overload syndrome, I found the following advice in his blog from last year: Processing determines as quickly as possible what, if anything, to do with each piece (in ascending order of urgency and importance): […]

[…] The truth is that you probably can take the average email inbox — even a relatively neglected one — from full to zero in about 20 minutes. It mostly depends on how much you really want to be done with it. The dirty little secret, of course, is that you don’t do it by responding to each of those emails but by ruthlessly processing them. Is that how you thought this worked? Answering 500 emails in 20 minutes? Jeez, it’s no wonder you’re such a mess. Your cognitive dissonance is epic. […]

[…] I found a great article by Merlin Mann of 43 Folders on how to keep your e-mail inbox under control. There are a few people at the Law School I work at that have enormous inboxes… One individual has over 20,000 messages in his inbox.  One day I got a call from him because his e-mail program (Outlook) was crashing on him.  It turns out that Outlook does have an upper limit on the number of message it can hold in an inbox. […]

[…] Quick tips on processing your email inbox | 43 Folders The basic idea is to firewall processing as a discrete phase you go through no more than every hour or two at the most. For God’s sake, don’t live in your Inbox if there’s any way you can avoid it. (tags: email gtd lifehacks mobile tips organization productivity) […]

[…] Utilizar un buen sistema de clasificación de correo electrónico: Ésta es un poco más complicada de describir. Básicamente lo que quiero decir aquí es que se racionalice lo que hay en el Inbox de correo para tratar de que no nos ocupe espacio mental pensando en las cosas que están pendientes de hacer. Una técnica excelente es la que está descrita en 43 Folders, basada en el famosísimo “Getting Things Done” de David Allen. […]

[…] A few days before leaving for a two-week trip, I felt so overwhelmed by the number of little tasks that had to be taken care of before leaving that I decided to start looking into this whole Getting Things Done movement seriously. I started off with cleaning out my three inboxes of about 200+ pending emails following the simple rules set out by Merlin Mann in this 43 folders post. I left September 15 with a very clean inbox, and came back on September 30 with a very manageable number of pending emails, mostly the stuff that I couldn’t take care of because I had only intermittent access to the internet while I was traveling. Boy, looking at an inbox with less than a dozen pending messages, most of which will be processed in the next couple of days, is such a liberating experience. […]

[…] Fifty percent or more of your mail may not make it past the first question: delete. A majority of the remainder may not make it past the second (beyond perhaps a one- or two-line reply). And, God willing, you’ll eventually get really fast at dispensing the rest with quick application of the third. The key is to get super-fast at turning valuable messages into actions or placeholders for action. I’ll say it again: […]

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