Inbox Zero

Evan Courtney — Fri, 21 May 2010 11:00:40 +0000

I’ve heard of Merlin Mann and his “Inbox Zero” idea for a couple of years, but I finally sat down and looked over his site, and watched his presentation of the idea to Google.
Why?
Because I’ve got over 250 emails sitting in my inbox screaming at me.

Merlin gives a good plan on how to deal with your email, by processing each email by doing one of the following.

Choose one action to do on each email

Delete
or create a single folder called “archive” that you throw it into.

Delegate
Forward it to someone else.

Respond
Get it out and do something with it as quick as possible.

Defer
Answer it later. Put it in a folder called “Respond”

Do it
Put it on your calendar, to do list or wherever. Just get it out of your inbox.

You can check out Merlin’s original Inbox Zero presentation that he gave at Google. It’s about an hour long, but so worth it. Watch video.

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Evan Courtney — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:19:17 +0000

Most of my meetings I have to write things down.
And then I type them into a program.
Evernote. Google Docs. ect.

How do you take notes?

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Inbox Zero

Notes: Paper to Digital