Jun 23 2008
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Inbox zero
This describes exactly my inbox strategy. It’s so obvious that GMail was built with that in mind that I don’t understand why most people don’t get it (and I’m not even counting the poor souls stuck with Outlook).
“The basic premise of Inbox Zero is that you only have action items in your e-mail inbox. Everything else is archived or organize by a limited set of labels. One of the major setbacks of Outlook is search. There really is no comparison to the e-mail search capabilities of Google Apps. Even amongst thousands and thousands of e-mails, it’s easy to find the one you’re looking for. In Outlook, people tend to compensate for poor search capabilities by archiving their e-mail in (often) scores and scores of nested folders. The overhead associated with organizing and accessing data in this manner can often be overwhelming. “