All my advice is from Get-It-Done-Guy. Favorite advice (that I don't totally follow) is for your Out-of-Office message to read that you will not be able to reply to anything sent in your absence and for the sender to resend anything requiring a response. Then delete the entire contents of your inbox upon your return.
Good for the person this works for, but there's so many important messages it simply wouldn't. I can't imagine having a job where you can be as imperious to all your correspondents.
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1136 victims in total were snagged, with over 1.5 million users watching their reactions live on SKY Sport. The two weeks following the event, the Heineken subsite received over 5 million unique visitors, plenty of blog and news coverage, and some seriously heavy YouTube/socnet love.
I have to write a self assessment.
"Dear Boss: I slounge, I smoke, I yoga. I cook. I'm gonna be a porn-writer when the livejournal rolls back. There's slash in the internet since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a yoga mat."
Inboxes with 87486329 unread messages terrify me.
See also those people with phone mail box lights that are never not lit. Ever.
ION, it is GORGEOUS in Boston today. Must be close to 65, and it feels warmer in the sun. Supposed to last at least until Sat night/Sun morning, though the tempratures will slowly creep back down towards normal.
I'm currently about 4500 messages behind in filing my Inbox. But only 35 of them are unread.
The conversation here got me motivated enough to file up to June 2008, but the rest is going to have to wait until I'm significantly more industrious.
I'm currently about 4500 messages behind in filing my Inbox. But only 35 of them are unread.
The conversation here got me motivated enough to file up to June 2008, but the rest is going to have to wait until I'm significantly more industrious.
GIDG would have you create a backlog folder and immediately put your entire Inbox in it. Then keep current with your new empty inbox, and set a benchmark number for going through the backlog folder every day/week/month until it's empty.
t /GIDG likes carrots
GIDG may like carrots, but Matt likes having recent e-mails with pending issues that he has to constantly refer back to all located in one handy place rather than spread across dozens of nested project folders.
GIDG sounds awesome. I want him to come and run my life. Or at least my classroom.
GIDG may like carrots, but Matt likes having recent e-mails with pending issues that he has to constantly refer back to all located in one handy place rather than spread across dozens of nested project folders.
Hence why I basically clean mine out but still keep pending things there. It serves as a complement to my weekly action items list.
I don't implement everything he recommends by far, but his advice has really helped me come up with my own basic system.
Get-It-Done Guy's Quick and Dirty Tips to Work Less and Do More: [link]
I not only keep email for ridiculous amounts of time, but I also import them from one computer to the next, one file format to the next.
But recently I upgraded to the most recent Thunderbird and have yet to figure out where it's stashed everything. So maybe I'll break myself of the habit.
