PRODUCTIVITY: Thinking about email

Of course I am interested in your thinking about email and your strategy for exploiting the opportunity it represents.

I’ve come to the conclusion, that despite handling prestigious amounts of the stuff. Stuff that varies in quality from vile trash to gems. I need a better mechanism.

It all ties into what platform are you using. Web-based uninstalled or client based or a mixture.

It all ties into creating a “brand”, spam, and throughput.

Argh.

Just as one can take too many feeds and be unable to “drink from the fire hose”, it is possible to be overwhelmed with email.

So how to handle it?

Do you use one email and deal with it? No, that single channel quickly hides the significant from the trivial in a mass of mess.

I think my strategy of using different emails or different purposes has allowed me to get to my current state. Unfortunately, I need more.

(1) I need conversations like I see in Gmail.

(2) I need Getting Things Done applied to email.

(3) I need Outlook email boxes galore?

Sigh. I don’t know what I need?

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