Pledge “tidyinbox”
"I will ensure that my inbox is empty before I go to bed each day in 2009 but only if 25 other online peeps will do the same."
— Bill Thompson, of andfinally.com (contact)
- Dylid arwyddo cyn: 30 Ionawr 2009
arwyddwyd gan 29 person (4 dros y targed)
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Suw and Bill believe that inbox cleanliness is as close to godliness as atheistic net users get. We'd like our friends to join us in our quest for virtue and salvation.
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Pethau i'w gwneud gyda'r addewid hwn
Sylwadau ar yr addewid hwn
Llofnodwyr cyfredol (
= they've done it)
Bill Thompson, Crëwr yr Addewid, ynghyd â:
- Suw Charman-Anderson
- Chris Mear
- Kirsten Jones
- David Wells
- Chris Bray
- Carl Morris
- Matthew
- James Cridland
- Mary Picken
- Mike
- Drew Buddie
- Paul Wilkinson
- Amanda
- Graeme Sutherland
- Shane Lambert
- garsin cheung
- Simon Perry
- Hilary Perkins
- Phil Clark
- Björn Bauer
- Alun Rowe
- Tom de Grunwald
- Tom Morris
- Steve Thompson
- Amy
- Steve Thompson
- Sarah
- Debbie Kean
- Aidan McCarthy
Another challenge I have is that I receive work-related as well as personal emails at the same addresses.
The way I use email is different for work vs. personal. Work tends to be about tasks and requests. Personal is more rambling, penpal-style, and typically I delay up to a week or so before responding.
I've long given up trying to school people to differentiate between my work and personal addresses.
I may have to start archiving the personal ones on receipt and putting "respond to friend x" on my todo list, which feels a bit weird.
The 35,000+ emails in my inbox, which included 25k+ unread mails, are now archived. Hurrah!
Waiting for the enjoyable feeling of weight lifting from my shoulders to sink-in :)
Still, early days yet.
This is going to need tactics :)
I am noticing that it's forcing me to make decisions that I'd otherwise needlessly postpone, which is interesting. And a good thing!
Whereas I can sleep easy about an outstanding to-do list item because I've "actioned" the email.
Or better still, like you say - sitting back after apportioning proper time to gun down all those emails.
For the use case of "need to wait till someone else replies", it really depends doesn't it?
Sometimes I can just archive, forget and trust the other person to bring it up again. If it's something important where I need to hassle or chase someone, I put it in my diary: "hassle person x to do z thing". (That's the plan anyway.)
I'm learning that life and cool projects make progress by those awkward but necessary confrontations. Not least with myself.
Debbie
http://feedmechocolate.com/
I've been doing pretty well at keeping my inbox tidy so far, but I figure a bit of public shaming will help keep me on the straight and narrow!
It would be fun to track a whole organisation's email statuses (if they were all on IMAP).
Then you could pie chart their operant conditioning and reprimand them in the face.