Empty Inbox
This has been a crazy week. We got approval on a new job that should be very cool but is on a very tight deadline. Needless to say, there hasn't been much time for blogging.
But it is a great segue into my Empty Inbox philosophy. In reality, it isn't really mine since I read it on another blog but what can you do? Anyway...
For the last few months I have been deleting every email that I receive after the task related to the email is complete. My goal every day is to have an absolutely empty Inbox. It feels great. It also forces me to deal with an email when it comes in and not procrastinate. For the record, my mail app is set to Get Mail only once an hour so I am not constantly distracted.
The obvious problem of losing pertinent information in those deleted emails is solved by a mirrored gmail account and a gmail widget that saves me the step of logging in through a browser. All in all, I highly recommend it. Give it a try.
