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Glenn Wolsey: 6 email tips
Merlin Mann | Sep 1 2006
Glenn Wolsey—6 Ways To Organize - Your Mail Application Glenn Wolsey has a great little post on how he’s set up and is using Mail.app. He’s got some very smart stuff here, including an intriguing approach to minimalist mailbox management:
The “Interesting” folder is a new one to me, and, although I personally favor a more verb-y approach to my email buckets, that would be a cool way to bubble up stuff you don’t want to miss after a big round of processing. As we covered in Inbox Zero, it’s all about liberating the actions out of your mail. Like any of this stuff, if the system makes sense to you and gives you transparent affordances for instantly knowing “where it goes” and “what you need to do about it,” then you’re on to something. Nice work, Glenn! POSTED IN:
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