10 Steps to a Gmail Makeover
March 25, 2010
A great post about email inbox overload: “10 Steps to a Gmail Makeover” by Lisa Thumann. In all seriousness, I do all of these & you should too. Seriously, peeps, pay attention. #10 is my favorite as it is the most effective, and the toughest to follow:
10. Be Decisive
Hank gave a very wise piece of advice. He suggested that when you get a new piece of e-mail, make a decision about what to do with it. Give it a Label. Read it. Delete it. Archive it. But, don’t just leave it there. It took me 14 days to whittle down from 14,000 e-mails to zero. I feel like I’m going to be more responsive to people now as they are not going to get lost in the shuffle. Well, I hope so anyway.
via @buffyjhamilton on Twitter
March 26th, 2010 at 9:29 am
Thanks for pointing me to such a useful set of tips. I have added it to my library’s blog as well, see http://library.med.utah.edu/blog/eccles/2010/03/26/tips-for-using-gmail/
Great tag-line on your blog, too!
March 27th, 2010 at 11:42 am
Thanks for the link back to my post. Number 10 has been the most challenging part for me. When Hank gave this piece of advise, it sounded so easy, but it is exactly this issue that caused me to accumulate so many e-mails in the first place.
I am proud to say though that since I originally posted “10 Steps to a Gmail Makeover”, I have maintained inbox zero before going to sleep every night. Phew!!