Tag Archives: Email

Converting Email into Scheduled Items

Ever since I learned that I could take an email and immediately transform it to an item in my schedule with its own start and end time, I have engaged in the habit almost daily. In Outlook 2007 it’s a … Continue reading

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A Zero Inbox in Outlook or Gmail?

I just read a great post over at the Web Worker Daily Blog. It essentially has to do with Capturing in one’s inbox, and how using Outlook has lead to very different ways of maintaining a Zero Inbox than using … Continue reading

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Downloading Email — Caution!

A critical strategy in achieving the goal of a Zero-Inbox is to gain control over the flow of email into one’s Inbox.  This is accomplished by turning off the auto download feature, and scheduling times in the day to review … Continue reading

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Something Outlook Needs

In prior posts on the topic of Microsoft Outlook, I complained that the program was not really written for users, and instead suffers from the creativity of programmers who have added in feature after feature without really understanding how users … Continue reading

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Using Your Inbox as a List of To-Do’s

I came across the following quote which is taken from an article in the New York Times from June 26th entitled “E-Mail Etiquette for Public Figures.” I once read a popular book called “Getting Things Done” (you can read about … Continue reading

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Cutting the Volume of Email

I picked up the following quote from a post in Tim Ferris’ blog: Jim — May 29, ’08 – 10:17 PM “Another effect of reading and replying to e-mail frequently is that you don’t allow others responses to build up. … Continue reading

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