Confronting Your Inbox

From the Sarasota Chamber of Commerce Techfast Breakfast August 4th, 2010 session. Focusing on effective e-mail management to promote individual productivity and stress management.

Transcript

1. Confronting Your Inbox
   Changing the way you work to reduce stress and be more productive
   Tim Knight
   GravityFree
   

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2. “We are the most over-informed, under-
   reflective society in the history of civilization.”
   — ROBERT KEGAN & LISA LAHEY
   

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3. Efficiency is about creating
   time for renewal.
   

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4. Our Brains Love Small Successes...
   Our Workflow, Doesn’t.
   

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5. Don’t leave your email
   running all day
   

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6. Our Brains Have Trouble
   Seeing Difference in E-mail
   Flagging and Marking Unread
   Doesn’t Do It
   

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7. Check your email with the
   understanding you will
   empty your inbox.
   

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8. Five Types of Email
   Spam
   Newsletters
   FYIs
   Events
   To Dos
   

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9. Five Types of Email
   Spam
   Newsletters
   FYIs
   Events
   To Dos
   

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10. Five Types of Email
    Spam
    Newsletters
    FYIs
    Events
    To Dos
    

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11. Five Types of Email
    Spam
    Newsletters
    FYIs
    Events
    To Dos
    

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12. Five Types of Email
    Spam
    Newsletters
    FYIs
    Events
    To Dos
    

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13. Five Types of Email
    Spam
    Newsletters
    FYIs
    Events
    To Dos
    

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14. To Do Managers
    Windows:
    Tudumo
    JetTask
    Mac:
    OmniFocus
    Things
    Online:
    GoodToDo RememberTheMilk
    

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15. Suggested Organization
    

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16. Miscellaneous Tips
    1. Setup realistic expectations in
    vacation messages.
    2. Summarize your points in long
    emails to multiple recipients.
    

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17. Thank You!
    – Tim Knight, GravityFree
    Questions?
    

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