Quick GTD productivity tip
I’m currently part-way through reading David Allen’s Getting Things Done and I’m finding that the methodology he espouses is a good fit for the way my brain works.
One of the central tenets of the system—the second of the five steps one goes through when doing something—is Processing your various inboxes. As Allen notes, there are some inboxes that don’t require any action on your part to get filled: Email accounts.
If you’re anything like me, you’ve got quite a few different places to go to retrieve your email. I have:
- Microsoft Outlook on my home computer, downloading mail from half-a-dozen different domains
- The equivalent accounts online, courtesy of my web host
- Gmail
- My Digital Web email account
- Hotmail
These last four—all online—are at four different locations, so need four windows/tabs open to check, so what I’ve done is combine all four in one bookmarks folder.
As well as keeping them all together in one convenient place, this means that I can use the “Open All in Tabs” option (middle-click on PC, Ctrl-click on Mac) to open four new tabs at the same time—so when I decide it’s time to process my virtual inboxes, one click is all it takes!
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Nice tip. I too am a new convert to GTD, having just finished the book. If you’re looking for software for GTD try Thinking Rock. It’s working for me.