I have been looking at the way in which I have been doing the practice of Emptying more closely, and I am still convinced that it’s one of the most difficult practices. (For details on the practice of Emptying, see the list of Categories at the left, and click on — “Emptying.”)
It’s a […]

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I can’t quite recall where I read this suggestion, but I have been trying it out and it seems to work.
It’s very simple - for every important piece of email, send a reply, even a short one, to say one of the following messages:

Thanks
It’s received and will be acted on and here’s the promised due […]

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Email is a problem for everyone who is concerned with being productive. It is a new medium and there is virtually no-one with 20 years of email experience.
Only recently have best practices begun to be developed for this difficult source of information. In the absence of these best practices, users end up with in-boxes of […]

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This is a great presentation by the author of
43 folders on maintaining an “Inbox of Zero”:
[googlevideo=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=973149761529535925&hl=en]

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Emptying is the activity that logically follows
Capturing.
Definition
Emptying involves removing items one at a time from the points of capture and placing them within one of the other components of the time management system. This action frees up the point of capture to receive new items.
Whereas
Capturing involves a split-second activity and is truly […]

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