April Nottingham

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  Email Sucks! 5 Time Saving Tips From Kevin Rose.

  Email is probably one of the most over used forms of communication today. It is a fantastic technology that has revolutionised the way we work but like most good things it is best in moderation. People with a moderate amount of email in their inbox are few and far between and most are suffering from [...]

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  Empty Inbox: The Last Chapter

  This post is part of the Empty Inbox series Operating a successful and sustainable empty inbox is a process rather than a product. Unfortunately a sudden burst of productive work can’t save you from the chaos, consistency is the key to removing the stress from email. Was the Stress Justified? As you trawled though those [...]

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  Empty Inbox: Steps to Zero

  This post is part of the Empty Inbox series. No matter what the state of your inbox it can be taken from full to empty with relative ease in less than five minutes. Obviously to do this you don’t respond to each and everyone of those emails. The only way to really empty your inbox [...]

• Empty Inbox: Mental Filtering

  Mental filtering is not exclusively my idea, it’s based on the concepts of Merlin Mann which in-turn were based heavily on David Allen’s Getting Things Done book. Essentially mental filtering is based on using a few questions to filter the messages in your inbox: 1. How does this message affect me? 2. What does this [...]

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  Empty Inbox: Scheduling

  This post is part of the Empty Inbox series I’ve already mentioned scheduling email in one of the previous posts in the Empty Inbox series but I believe it’s so important to achieving an empty inbox it deserves it’s own exclusive section. You may have already heard me talk about the dangers of email autocheck [...]

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