Inbox Zero: Action-Based Email

From a Google Tech Talk (view the video: http://tinyurl.com/yp4vq3) presented by 43 Folders' Merlin Mann on 2007-07-23 at the company's Mountain View campus.

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1. Inbox Zero action-based email Merlin Mann Google Tech Talk
2. Where’s the Love?
3. Get a System (but, keep it simple)
4. Time & Attention are finite.
5. Time & Attention are Finite Concept: Joel Spolsky
6. Manage Actions
7. Inbox Zero
8. Emailʼs just a medium One place for anything Process to zero Convert to actions Inbox Zero
9. What is Processing? More than checking Less than responding Answers: “So what?”
10. Make Sandwiches (Donʼt just take orders)
11. Delete Delegate Respond Defer Do
12. Delete (or Archive)
13. Delegate
14. Respond
15. Defer
16. Do
17. Delete Delegate Respond Defer Do Choose One
18. The Processing Habit “We are what we frequently do” — Aristotle
19. Do Email Less.
20. Cheat.
21. No fiddling.
23. Delete Delegate Respond Defer Do Stay on target
24. Remember? Finite.
25. Thanks.
26. Inbox Zero action-based email Merlin Mann Google Tech Talk