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I’m not sure if you can tell from the picture, but it is a shot of my Email Inbox. EMPTY!!!!! I’m not sure I’ve had an empty inbox since the day that I started using email. In fact, if you take the average number of emails in the inbox over the past year, it is probably around 600-700. Ouch!!!
One of the things that I’ve learned in my job transition is that I need to get a whole lot better at managing information. There is an incredible flow of details, information and todos that come across my desk on an average day and mostly I’ve just been buried.
I decided to read the book, Getting Things Done by David Allen. Jerry told me about it and my dad was reading it so it seemed like the time was right. I read the first few chapters on my trip to Singapore and so when I got back to the office, I decided to implement his suggestions. He said that it could take 2 full days to get everything organized. Here I sit at the end of Day 3 and I’m almost there. I’ve organized my paper files and as of right now, I’ve organized my email. I still have to go through a bunch of lists of todos that I’ve made. I’m getting close, though. Now, the challenge will be to maintain it. The book seems like it will help me a bunch.
I’ll let you know whether these 3 days were worth it. I’ve been battling the stress of the fact that I haven’t gotten many todos done during these 3 days. Time will tell.
Now, nobody send me another email again. EVER!!!!!! 
I’ve started using David Allen’s GTD stuff too. I like most of it. It’s based on using categoris for doing tasks based on where you are. I’m always at my computer so I’m finding it not as helpful as it could be, but I like it. I don’t use the calendar the way he suggests either. But I am trying to keep my email down and I’ve gotten it cleared a few times.
Congratulations! The planets must be aligned because I emptied my Inbox, too. It is only the second time ever in my email life, and it was also inspired by GTD.
Awesome! It has been a big help and a freeing feeling to keep the inbox “almost” empty. I am finding a few of his categories to be very useful espicailly @calls and @agendas.
I decided to comment in your blog and not send you an “email”