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> Organising mails is a strange game, and the only winning move is not to play. I laughed out loud at this, because you are 100% correct.
How about a nice game of chess?
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From the article: > Inbox Zero might be impractical every day, but Inbox Organized happens without breaking a sweat. My experience is the absolute opposite. Organising mails is a strange game, and the only winning move is not to play. I get the information out of the emails as soon as I can, and put it into a system that is actually manageable. GTD had it right from the start. Thank you David Allen. You want harsh fe…
I must say I loved it. In 10min I cleared my inbox which I was postponing for a few weeks. I actually love that this is tied to Gmail. The integration means I can move back at any time by just deleting my shortwave account so it's very low risk for me. Also it's top notch, it imported all my aliases and signatures.
Isn’t that a false promise of modern life? Inbox zero isn’t possible or even necessary
People have more than 1 unread email? In the regular inbox? really?
I have a few broad search filters (example, at work: internal email vs outside email.) I star or bookmark things I need to come back to (and then un-star them afterwards.) I use text search to find everything else.
I treat it like a giant single chat history.
I have never not been able to find an email when I need to, and I never miss a message.
Life is too short to waste time trying to maintain "inbox zero."
Why do we need/want inbox zero? Isn’t that a false promise of modern life? Inbox zero isn’t possible or even necessary
Why do we need/want inbox zero? Isn’t that a false promise of modern life? Inbox zero isn’t possible or even necessary
Why do we need/want inbox zero? Isn’t that a false promise of modern life? Inbox zero isn’t possible or even necessary
> Email Data: we collect your email address and the contents of any emails and messages you draft or receive in our Service, as well as associated metadata (such as the time sent).
I understand the technical need, but no thanks, I would prefer some local client. Especially given that:
> In certain circumstances we may share the categories of Personal Data described above with the following categories of third parties without further notice to you: [...]
> we may share Personal Data with vendors and service providers, including providers of hosting services, payment processors, email communication software and email newsletter services, customer relationship management and customer support services, and web analytics services.
So you (could) share my (business) emails with more or less everybody in the world?
Hard pass.
From the article: > Inbox Zero might be impractical every day, but Inbox Organized happens without breaking a sweat. My experience is the absolute opposite. Organising mails is a strange game, and the only winning move is not to play. I get the information out of the emails as soon as I can, and put it into a system that is actually manageable. GTD had it right from the start. Thank you David Allen. You want harsh fe…
> Organising mails is a strange game, and the only winning move is not to play. I laughed out loud at this, because you are 100% correct.
My solution is just to never delete any e-mails. Inbox zero is a complete waste of time for me.