Quantified Self | Self Knowledge Through Numbers. A Closed-List Approach to Processing Email. Posted on December 30, 2010 by LJ EarnestCategories: Organization,Productivity Estimated reading time: 2 minutes, 19 seconds Welcome to Simple Productivity Blog! You may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. This will allow you to receive updates in your RSS reader every time new content is posted here. If you want to receive updates in your email, click 'Via email' in the upper right corner. Please take some time to check out the content on the site. There is a Getting Started category that may be useful. You may comment on any article by scrolling down and using the form at the bottom of all articles.
I am taking a break this week. You have decided to take control of your email, and answer it when YOU decide, not be at the beck and call of every email that comes in. This method was inspired by the closed-list philosophy of Mark Forster in Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management . Step 1: Set up your folders Step 2: Empty your inbox Step 3: Process the email Like this: Manliness. 50 Tricks to Get Things Done Faster, Better, and More Easily - S.
Mental Help Net - Psychological Self-Tool. Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done. Unclutterer: Daily tips on how to organize your home and office. Leo babauta. The Beginner’s Guide to Zen Habits – A Guided Tour | Zen Habits. Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter.
While some of you have been following Zen Habits since its early days (beginning of 2007), many of you are fairly new readers. To help you through the fairly overwhelming archives, I’ve compiled a beginner’s guide. Kind of a Quick Start guide. First, a note: Please don’t try to go through this all at once. Take it in small chunks. Where do you start when you have a thousand posts to read through? So here they are: The All-Time Most Popular Posts on Zen Habits But those are just the stars of the All-Star team.
Or you can go through a few compiled guides I’ve hand picked for some of the more popular categories: And if that’s not enough for you, here’s a month-by-month Best of Zen Habits: By now, you might want to know more about Leo, the guy who writes this blog … well, here’s more than you ever wanted to know: Whew!