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I did pretty much this...Fresh Start: The Email DMZ By: Merlin Mann (56 replies) January 4, 2006 - 6:48am |
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I did pretty much this...
I did pretty much this same thing at the end of October when I was first exposed to GTD (thanks, Merlin!). Instead of using the DMZ folder, I just said all emails after October 31 in my inbox will be sorted (@actions, etc.), responded to, or trashed. And everytime I received email to be sorted, I just did a few extra in the process since I was in the sorting mode. Of course, I had over 3000 emails (small amount compared to some of you, and you know who you are) to do so I just placed another arbitary date on the line—June—and just plain archived them (cringe). Now my inbox is clean and is processed regularly (mileage may vary for others) and can attest to the belief that the “email DMZ” method does work!