Getting Email Under Control

I've been a big fan of David Allen's book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (GTD) for a number of years now, so I was surprised to find that I haven't really posted about it (except for this brief mention) on this blog. The two big ideas from GTD that have always stood out for me are separating the process of collecting vs processing and focusing on "what's the next physical thing I can do" vs. trying to assign priorities to everything on your lists. There is much more to GTD than that, but those are the two things that I always return to to help me stay on track.

A big part of staying organized for most of us is managing the seemingly ever-growing list of items in our e-mail inbox. If you inbox feels like it is out of control and causing you stress, I highly recommend that you download this free article from David Allen's web site - Getting Email Under Control.

It may sound like a trivial thing when you read about it, but I think you will be surprised by the feeling you get when you see that you email inbox has less than one screen full of items.