Getting things done by empty inbox rule: simple email management strategy for effective work living
Empty inbox
Your email inbox is full? You got messed in the big email list? You don’t know what to do first what to start from?
Hi, most of you use some email client in your job activities. You get inquiries tasks and other action oriented emails throughout your working day. A lot of us feels frustrated when having accumulated large amounts of various emails from work colleagues partners clients etc. and work seems to stop and we feel we can’t cope with our work. That to do for more effective tasks management?
The main secret for getting thing done strategy is to empty your inbox.
Like said on Zero mail technique by Merlyn Mann from Google Tech Talk http://www.merlinmann.com/2007/07/26/google-inbox-zero/ but we will have here more simple way. So lets begin:
When you get new email in your inbox you can do these types of actions:
- Delete (remove from inbox)
If email is not important and ask for nothing - you can delete it, (better archive, or delete with undelete option)
- Delegate (forward first and remove from inbox)
Got email which asks for doing something? Think of delegating it to colleague, DO only thing important to you, don’t do thing important to others. Delegating add the deadline of the job.
- Do(leave in inbox until done, remove when done)
Do what is wanted. (this must be important job for you own goals) You can reply about status. Remove email only when job is done. This the main action for your getting thing done. Don’t remove email before job done, because you will lose follow up thread and forget about the task. THIS is the best part of zero inbox - because you want inbox to be zero, so you need the job to be done and not to procrastinate.
- Archive (move to another storage folder from inbox)
If this is information for you which maybe will be needed in future, just move this email to another folder for later use.
Do until Inbox = zero. 
Good luck!
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