…from friends, from co-workers, from on-line accounts, from family, from automated newsletters, from me (…yes, sometimes I send emails to myself as reminders of things to do)…wherever my email originates from, it lands on me…and it’s heavy because there is so much.
Email is awesome – don’t get me wrong – but it is also one more thing to manage and organize. If you don’t give it some systematic attention, you’ll always feel buried.
My friends over at Rian Design clued me into Inbox Zero. The strategy they present…RULZ!!!! Merlin, the genius who “created” the system, talks about “going through” your inbox with skills, tools, and an attitude needed to empty your email inbox — and then keep it that way. I’ve been using the system for about (2) months and…it works!
The system is beautifully organized and explained in a series of blog posts. I recently saw the presentation he gave to the folks at Google teaching them how to manage their inbox.
