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Green tea’s caffeine won’t bother you
Green tea has an ingredient that actually counteracts the caffeine it contains. The amino acid theanine, found in green tea, has been shown to reduce mental and physical stress, improve cognition and mood and has a relaxing effect when consumed. Theanine is even used as a natural calming agent for its ability to cause states [...]
Why is the goal an empty inbox?
To truly get a handle on your email communication, you need to have a goal of emptying your inbox regularly. When asked why they do it, most people who keep everything in their inbox respond with, “I can’t delete it; what if I need it?”
What is the Inbox Era?
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 [...]
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 [...]