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I don't understand why people are constantly acting like they are required to read email. I currently have over nine-thousand unread emails in my gmail. And look! Nothing bad happened! That's getting things done. Things that aren't email .
I don't understand why people are constantly acting like they are required to read email. I currently have over nine-thousand unread emails in my gmail. And look! Nothing bad happened! That's getting things done. Things that aren't email .
Some of us are wired to bring that little red number to 0. Latent OCD, perhaps? It just makes me itch inside when it looks like someone might be waiting for a response. I need to learn to live with it.
If someone needs me urgently for something, they can ping me in our company hipchat or use any of a number of methods to contact me by voice. Email is lowest priority.
I do get through my emails, but it's not something I allow to interrupt my day repeatedly.
Since I switched over to this, the self-inflicted stress over keeping my inbox empty has gone away. ANd I still get the work done that I need to get done.
For those interested in trying this, it's worth noting that you'll need to disable some things like the tabbed inbox. The step-by-step eventually mentions this, but until you get to that point you won't see any sign of the multiple inbox UI.
I don't understand why people are constantly acting like they are required to read email. I currently have over nine-thousand unread emails in my gmail. And look! Nothing bad happened! That's getting things done. Things that aren't email .
Note: I don't expect e-mail to be replied to straight away just when there it time, if it's urgent I will most of the time use alternative contact methods.
That's all well and good but so far it's only what the author has done (but with, IMHO, a nicer and easier to use UI). What Active Inbox does that isn't possible without a plugin is it adds notes and "next steps" to emails, it's easiest to explain with a screenshot:
http://awesomescreenshot.com/08225ii5e9
Full disclaimer: I have been paid to add features to Active Inbox (including some of the ones I've mentioned and very cool upcoming keyboard control thingy) but I was a happy customer before that happened.
I don't understand why people are constantly acting like they are required to read email. I currently have over nine-thousand unread emails in my gmail. And look! Nothing bad happened! That's getting things done. Things that aren't email .
I use the mailbox iPhone app. The killer feature for me is that I can snooze an email. It's close to ideal for me. This ability to show multiple inboxes on the desktop might be an interesting tool to add visibility to something on another list.
Can't beat Mailbox. Wish they had a desktop app too. The snoozing thing is essential for moving stuff out of my headspace until I can think about it. I wish everything in life had a swipe to snooze.