Keeping Your Inbox Empty

Inbox Zero is a con­cept by Mer­lin Mann that I embrace fully (he is writ­ing a book on it due to be out soon), and most email hogs have a love hate rela­tion­ship with Inbox Zero. The thing is, most peo­ple have Inbox Zero wrong. Not being the inven­tor of the con­cept, I should say that most peo­ple approach keep­ing noth­ing in their inbox the wrong way. Keep­ing your inbox empty is not about react­ing to email quickly and effi­ciently – keep­ing your inbox... Read More

∞ Charles Best on Keyboard Shortcuts

via America’s Most Pro­duc­tive CEOs: Charles Best of DonorsChoose.  Read More

∞ America’s Most Productive CEOs: Mark Cuban

Mark Cuban on his deci­sion cri­te­rion for respond­ing to email: If it’s of value, I respond. If not, not. Some peo­ple write a book. I don’t get past the first para­graph. Other peo­ple start out with some expla­na­tion of why they are writ­ing. I don’t get past that. If you are clear and to the point and it’s rel­e­vant to some­thing I am doing or am inter­ested in, there is a good chance I will respond. via America’s Most Pro­duc­tive CEOs: Mark... Read More

∞ Email Sanity: How to Clear Your Inbox When You’re Drowning

Leo Babauta writ­ing on Zen Habits: Stop send­ing so many emails. The more emails you send, the more you’ll get. Use email as lit­tle as you pos­si­bly can. Call peo­ple if you can, or walk over and talk to them. If those aren’t pos­si­ble, see if you can fig­ure it out for your­self. If you send an email that doesn’t require a response, say so. This entire arti­cle is gold. via Zen Habits.  Read More

∞ Gtriage: Escape From Gmail Overload

Sarah Perez: Gtriage is a new ser­vice that aims to help Gmail users suf­fer­ing from “infor­ma­tion over­load” due to an over­crowded inbox — a prob­lem affect­ing the major­ity of email users today. The way the ser­vice works is that it scans all your email mes­sages and to deter­mine which ones are the most impor­tant to you. It then tags those mes­sages “Impor­tant” with bright red labels so they don't get missed. via Gtriage: Escape from... Read More

∞ Lab Rat: Does a Balanced Email Diet = More Focus & Productivity?

Brit­tany Ancell: The only way to gain true peace of mind is to close your email com­pletely. It requires an obscene amount of dis­ci­pline to not dip into your inbox on a whim. At the very least, turn off mobile alerts and keep your client minimized. This is a great arti­cle; if you use email you need to read this. via The 99 Per­cent.  Read More

∞ 20 Email Productivity Tips to Become an Email Master

Daniel Scocco: Sig­na­tures can save a lot of time, because you won’t need to type a salu­ta­tion, your name or con­tact details below every mes­sage. Make sure to include only the rel­e­vant infor­ma­tion there, how­ever. Things like ran­dom quotes or images will clut­ter your mes­sages at best, and annoy the receiver at worst. I can­not tell you how annoy­ing peo­ples email sig­na­tures can be. Hint: if you are attach­ing your com­pany logo as an image... Read More

One Button to Merge All Duplicate Contacts (Gmail)

Gmail Blog: Man­ag­ing a big address book can be a chal­lenge, so it's no sur­prise that the top request for Google con­tacts is a fast, easy way to merge dupli­cate con­tacts. You've been able to merge con­tacts one-by-one for a while, but now we've added a sin­gle but­ton that merges all your dupli­cate con­tacts at once. This was really needed. via Offi­cial Gmail Blog.  Read More

Use OutLook? Liaise Intelligent Assistant Available Now

Mar­shall Kirkpatrick: Out­look users can now use email plug-in Liaise to auto­mat­i­cally extract action items, del­e­ga­tion and pri­or­ity lev­els from the free text of email conversations. I don’t use Win­dows so I have yet to try this, but it looks use­ful. How­ever I don’t agree with the sen­ti­ment that this tool makes Mac users jeal­ous of Win­dows users. via Use Out­Look? Liaise Intel­li­gent Assis­tant Avail­able Now.  Read More

Cure Your E-Mail Addiction

Unclut­terer: via Cure your e-mail addiction  Read More