Comments on: Managing Mail Imperfectly http://www.swiss-miss.com/2008/04/managing-mail-i.html swissmiss is a design blog and studio run by Tina Roth Eisenberg, a 'swiss designer gone NYC'. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:29:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Josh Carter http://www.swiss-miss.com/2008/04/managing-mail-i.html#comment-5984 Josh Carter Fri, 02 May 2008 18:19:05 +0000 http://www.swiss-miss.com/2008/04/managing-mail-i.html#comment-5984 <p>I think the post is missing the point of Inbox Zero. It's not about managing mail perfectly or keeping a fancy hierarchy of folders, it's about only seeing an email once and taking the appropriate action. Keeping the inbox empty is pretty easy when there's only a couple actions an email can prompt: delete, file, reply immediately, or take a note about an action I need to take (then file). For me, "file" means dump in a folder called "Archive." I use search if I need to find an old email.</p> <p>The problem with keeping everything in your inbox is that you tend to use emails as your action reminders. This means you need to keep looking over a list of emails, then remember which actions each needed. It's a lot of wasted mental energy and it's easy for things to slip through the cracks.</p> I think the post is missing the point of Inbox Zero. It’s not about managing mail perfectly or keeping a fancy hierarchy of folders, it’s about only seeing an email once and taking the appropriate action. Keeping the inbox empty is pretty easy when there’s only a couple actions an email can prompt: delete, file, reply immediately, or take a note about an action I need to take (then file). For me, “file” means dump in a folder called “Archive.” I use search if I need to find an old email.

The problem with keeping everything in your inbox is that you tend to use emails as your action reminders. This means you need to keep looking over a list of emails, then remember which actions each needed. It’s a lot of wasted mental energy and it’s easy for things to slip through the cracks.

]]> By: andrey http://www.swiss-miss.com/2008/04/managing-mail-i.html#comment-5983 andrey Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:24:24 +0000 http://www.swiss-miss.com/2008/04/managing-mail-i.html#comment-5983 <p>thanks for the link. it seems khoi's managing mail... post is from june 2007, not 2000. 7 years mean a lot in the internent universe ;)</p> thanks for the link. it seems khoi’s managing mail… post is from june 2007, not 2000. 7 years mean a lot in the internent universe ;)

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