The Empty Inbox Series
What is Empty Inbox
Empty Inbox is a series of posts by Oli Gibson aimed to help you take control of your email, manage an empty inbox and become more productive. The series covers the skills, tools and attitudes that can help you manage your inbox successfully, along with a couple of tips and tricks Oli has picked up along the way to make it a little easier. You can visit each of the posts by clicking on the title.
Posts in The Empty Inbox Series
- Introduction - Email seems to be the biggest time drain faced by many busy people today. It seems to be such an issue that many great minds have already thrown their hats into the ring over and shared their secrets for dealing with the vast quantities of email many of us receive. It’s time I threw my hat in the ring.
- Six Sneaky Email Cheats – There is no easy way to rid yourself of email over night, but these six cheats come as close as possible.
- The Key to Using Filters – Filters are one of the most underused tools in email. They can be the easiest way to reduce the amount of manual email processing you do every day as well as cut down on the regular interruptions email creates.
- Delete – Many believe that deleting email is some how sinful, shows your slack attitude or is simply counter-intuative to the idea of mastering your inbox. But lets be honest we all receive so many drains on our time these days that treating every new email in your inbox as a sign of love that must be reciprocated is like writing your own mental death certificate.
- Scheduling – I believe scheduling is so important to achieving an empty inbox it deserves it’s own exclusive section.
- Mental Filtering – Essentially mental filtering is based on using a few questions to filter the messages in your inbox.
- Steps to Zero – 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, you use email processing.
- The Last Chapter – 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.
