{"id":266,"date":"2010-02-15T15:38:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T22:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=266"},"modified":"2010-02-15T15:38:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T22:38:29","slug":"inbox-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Inbox Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m Writing a Book.<\/a> from Merlin Mann<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My life is a mess, mainly because my email is a mess.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve reached a critical point with email at which I just can’t keep up.\u00c2\u00a0 I can’t remember what I’ve read.\u00c2\u00a0 I can’t remember where the last email I last answered is.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve lost the plot.<\/p>\n

I’m now looking for the plot at the site Inboxzero.com<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Because I don’t have time to answer all of my emails, I also don’t have time to watch the video I’ve posted above in its entirety, nor do I have time to watch the previous video created by the same guy in which he first made famous his inbox zero plan.<\/p>\n

What I have done is to try to tackle this in my own way.\u00c2\u00a0 Today I moved about 50,000 emails to a folder labeled “old.”\u00c2\u00a0 I created labels for various types of emails.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve crafted a plan.<\/p>\n

My plan is that I will try to end each day with nothing left in my inbox.\u00c2\u00a0 If I don’t need it, I’ll delete it.\u00c2\u00a0 When I’ve answered it, I’ll move it to a folder.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a simple plan.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope it works to help me keep up with where I’ve been and how far I have left to go.<\/p>\n

Today is my first day of attempting to get down to zero.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought I was there at one point, but when I answered and moved the last student email and went back to look at my lovely empty inbox, I had three new campus spams…I mean announcements.<\/p>\n

Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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