Welcome to the Inbox Era. Having worked in very email-centric organizations in the high-tech industry for the past 10+ years, I’ve become accustomed to dealing with a very high volume of email. For years I’ve tried to discuss my trials and tribulations with dealing with the onslaught of information coming at me via my inboxes [...]
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The era of the inbox
I wasn’t kidding when I said I plan to be writing more this year. I’m just in the process of launching a new blog called Inbox Era, which will be a site dedicated to helping people learn how to manage all of the digital inboxes in their lives, particularly email and social network inboxes. I’ve [...]
Quoted in Computerworld on Outlook slowness
I was quoted again in an article on Computerworld’s website regarding the performance of Outlook 2007. While the spirit of my comments are fairly accurate, there are a few inaccuracies in the article, and some relatively harsh words were used to describe things that I know I used softer language on. I’m sure this falls [...]
Outlook Slowness
Clearly I’m not the only person in the world that has experienced slowness in Microsoft Outlook; “Outlook slow” is the second most searched-for phrase that leads people to this site, behind “eye twitch”. I have to say that although I’m somewhat happier with Outlook 2007, it’s still not as good as it ought to be. [...]
Quoted in Computerworld
About a month ago I was interviewed by a reporter named Eric Lai for an article about Microsoft’s Office 2007 launch, and Outlook 2007 specifically. The conversation lasted about a half an hour, and covered quite a broad range of topics, within the context of email management. The article that the reporter was writing was [...]
How to mark all posts as read in Google Reader
With the release of Google Calendar, I’m finding myself migrating more and more of my online life into Google apps. Gmail was the first (and still best), Google Personalized Homepage the next, then Google Calendar and now I’m starting to use Google Notebook some. The one that I could never really get into, though, was [...]
Becoming a Gmail master
While I’m a heavy user of Outlook in a business environment, I’ve migrated to Gmail for my personal email, and I don’t think I’ll ever go back. Gmail is pure email done right; it doesn’t have the productivity functionality of Outlook, but if you’re just looking for a mail client that allows you to deal [...]
ClearContext 2.0 to be released tomorrow!
The next version of my favourite Outlook plug-in for helping to make a huge incoming stream of email manageable is being released tomorrow. The 2.0 version of ClearContext comes with a raft of new features, tons of fit and finish, and effectively turns Outlook into the email management solution it should already have been. The [...]
Merlin’s “Getting to Zero” Inbox strategies
I mentioned this a couple of posts ago, but it warrants further attention. Productivity wizard and email guru Merlin Mann over at 43 Folders is doing a series on email called Getting to Zero. If you struggle with all the messages in your inbox, set aside a couple of hours and go read this series. [...]
Pretend you’re offline for better email productivity
Brad at ClearContext points to a post by Shawn Morrissey who comes to the realization that he is extremely productive with his email when on flights with no connectivity. He further suggests blocking out 90 minutes per day to process through your email with Outlook set to Offline status, so no distracting emails come in. [...]