Comments on: Organize your email http://www.beawesomeonline.com/organize-your-email Website advice for delightful weirdos Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Catherine Caine http://www.beawesomeonline.com/organize-your-email/comment-page-1#comment-195 Catherine Caine Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:30:02 +0000 http://www.beawesomeonline.com/?p=509#comment-195 Hi Mike, you could do what I do at the Day Job... I turned off all forms of email notification but left tasks and appointment on. Reminders flash up automatically, but I don't go near the inbox until I've finished what I'm working on. It takes a little discipline, but does get ris of email interrupting my train of thought.<br><br>P.S. Thanks for email. All fixed now! Hi Mike, you could do what I do at the Day Job… I turned off all forms of email notification but left tasks and appointment on. Reminders flash up automatically, but I don't go near the inbox until I've finished what I'm working on. It takes a little discipline, but does get ris of email interrupting my train of thought.

P.S. Thanks for email. All fixed now!

]]> By: Mike Korner http://www.beawesomeonline.com/organize-your-email/comment-page-1#comment-194 Mike Korner Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:24:55 +0000 http://www.beawesomeonline.com/?p=509#comment-194 Good article Patrick. My favorite line is: "Remember. This is your email. You own it, and it doesn’t own you." I think I should email that to myself every day as a reminder :) <br><br>Email is a hard one. I revamped my system a lot after reading David Allen's book, "Getting Things Done". While I rarely get to "inbox zero", I have things a lot more under control. <br><br>One problem I run into with shutting down Outlook is that I use its reminder feature for appointments and tasks. Also, I will often end up back in email -- sometimes just to review emails for a task I'm working on or an upcoming appointment. <br><br>I guess the answer is to separate mail, task, and calendar programs but I have that with Google and it has its evils, too. <br><br>Anyway, thanks for the tips. I agree completely with your points about shorter e-mails. Now if we could just get people to leave shorter blog comments :) Good article Patrick. My favorite line is: “Remember. This is your email. You own it, and it doesn’t own you.” I think I should email that to myself every day as a reminder :)

Email is a hard one. I revamped my system a lot after reading David Allen's book, “Getting Things Done”. While I rarely get to “inbox zero”, I have things a lot more under control.

One problem I run into with shutting down Outlook is that I use its reminder feature for appointments and tasks. Also, I will often end up back in email — sometimes just to review emails for a task I'm working on or an upcoming appointment.

I guess the answer is to separate mail, task, and calendar programs but I have that with Google and it has its evils, too.

Anyway, thanks for the tips. I agree completely with your points about shorter e-mails. Now if we could just get people to leave shorter blog comments :)

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