http://itzy.wordpress.com

for those of us who get a lot of e-mail.
he plugs his software a bit so i'll just get that out of the way: http://www.claritude.com

helps to stay organized using different methods - he's got a few down well.
1-reducing the number of inboxes
2-addressing messages to groups - how to get people to respond when you send to multiple recipients
3-keeping an empty inbox - d'uh, but reassuring
4-keeping track of overdue responses - i actually started this today. before, i'd go through my sent messages each week and that was so time-consuming. i'm going to start doing this.

anyone here use his software SpeedFiler? it seems worthwhile.

any other tools for e-mail/organization you'd recommend?

3/4/2006 2:32:09 AM

here's some tips to deal with RSS/news overload
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/gtd/3-steps-to-highly-efficient-news-reading-160454.php

3/14/2006 5:59:10 PM

the empty inbox is the big one for me. when i was in school my inbox was more often than not 500+. i always felt stressed b/c of this but never really consciously realized it. for at least a few months when i started working full time my inbox was typically < 20 messages and it felt a lot easier to manage.

since then i've realized how much a difference in productivity it makes to be intentional about my email. Any message that is purely FYI or doesn't require a response gets moved to the Archive folder immediately. Usually keeps my inbox < 50 messages. I also use colored flags A LOT. it helps so much to be able to look in the For Follow Up search folder in Outlook and be able to see all the outstanding tasks, grouped by color (ie catagory - immediate chores, faculty issues, vendor issues, tech issues, personal issues). email rules are helpful too for auto-classifying certain stuff.

the only thing i wish i had is the tagging-style one-to-many relationship with my folders

3/14/2006 6:47:47 PM