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Inbox Zero Report
by Andrew McCaskey
InBox Zero continues – I have not fallen off the wagon yet- and have been pleasantly surprised how quickly you can dispatch ten or twelve items of marginal value once you get to the point where there are only 16 items to look at in total. The secret is that folder called unread mail – once you have pushed that inbox to Zero you will find that keeping on top of the incoming is a lot easier.
Another tip that I’m starting to employ – One or two subject Tags as a prefix in subject lines such as DEMO: or TRAVEL: – Simple category reminders and acronyms that will be sure to be pulled in some search that I might trigger a few weeks from now. Plus, it’s a way to attract attention and telegraph some of the content to your addressees to cause them to pull and actually read the message.
And then finally, a technique from Lifehacker called the “Trusted Trio“ – reducing his folder count to exactly three - Action, Archive and Hold. Then let the drill down software take charge of pulling all that stuff up, when (and if) you need it. The hard part of this system is consistently revisiting Action and Hold and complete the “open loops” stowed away there. Just make sure that you never read email in your inbox – just make a triage decision, with liberal use of the trash.
Inbox Zero is the work of Merlin Mann, at the site 43Folders. He also wrote an article at MacWorld that gives a somewhat Mac-centric view – but the principles come through loud and clear.
I think you will be amazed at how much this little technique will help smooth the workday.
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Inbox Zero: One of the guideposts along the way will be some articles from the excellent site for personal productivity at 43 Folders , specifically an article entitled “My email diet” in the Inbox Zero – Day 1series.
From the 43Folders Inbox Zero process, I’m learning that these tools are no substitute for ruthless triage of escalating questions:
1. What does this message mean to me and why do I care ?
2. What action, if any, does this message require of me ?
3. What’s the most elegant way to close out this message and the nested action it contains ?
These questions were most valuable getting from 400 to 100 items. After that, the default
Outlook folder “Unread Items” kept the new stuff in one place – just reading headers and sender lines for easy zapping
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