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I'm interested in reading the solutions promised in part 2.

• peteretep 11y ago
  The easiest is: stop using your Inbox as a todo list, and use a dedicated Todo list system instead (like GTD). Any email that can be answered straight away is, anything else is archived and becomes an item in your Todo ledger.
  • graeme 11y ago
    I've trie this, but I never manage to deal with stuff once I file it. It piles up like my inbox. How do you deal with the dozens/hundreds of tasks that may accumulate?
    • normloman 11y ago
      If you get dozens to hundreds of tasks to do in a short period of time, isn't that the root of the problem? I suspect if you get too much email, it's usually because 1. You are the boss and insist on being CCed on everything, 2. Your job description is vauge, and everyone sends tasks to you, or 3. Your coworkers feel like they have to notify you of everything. All three are organizational dysfunction, and not a technology problem.
      • graeme 11y ago
        Entrepreneur. Though I didn't mean they all arrive at once. I meant I file them, work on something else, never process the filed stuff, and then it grows large and overwhelming. I stay on top of stuff sometimes, but then my main work goes slower. I do outsource a bunch, but some things I've found difficult.