1. I have a personal email account on yahoo. I set it up this past year and have been changing any previous communications so that now most personal emails go to that yahoo account.
2. I already have many folders created. I move emails every day if I have time or at least weekly. I may get behind when I come back from vacation but try to catch up within the following weeks. Since reading this assignment, I have been going in to each folder and weeding folders and emails no longer needed. I have worked through a third of them. I will continue doing this on a weekly basis until finished.
3. I don't keep an address book anymore. Since anyone I have emailed recently pop-ups when I start to type, I don't need to have an address book.
4. I intend to keep working on deleting folders until I am able to go through all of them. I also intend to keep up with my inbox, deleting and moving emails to folders if relevant.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Thursday, March 6, 2008
#28 Spring Cleaning -don't clutter up cyberspace.
I have read through this blog entry. I read the Wikipedia entry for G.T.D.
Even though my organization process may not be pretty I can organize and get things done. I normally have a list going which I cross off and update on a regular basis. Sometimes items take a long time and will stay on the list, other times they are simply calls I need to make and get through fast. So I can relate to some of the techniques- like anything that takes less than 2 minutes to go ahead and do immediately. I did go to David Allen's website and listened to a video showing him talking to a group. This may be sinking in but I admit it all sounds a little abstract right now.
Google Calendar- I took a tour of the site. It looked sort of like our department calendar.
Remember the milk- I took the tour- never could figure out what this looked like. I might like it because it sounds like it is more like lists. I do like lists.
Ta-da List- I am not sure I saw the advantage in this one. It looked like the same as my hand written lists. It would take me more time to log on to my computer- remember the website- remember my log in - then sit and make the list than if I just sat down and made the list with a pencil and paper. I don't get it?
Bla Bla List- I read through the FAQ because I couldn't see a tour of the site. They said they were like Ta da except with more options- like R.S.S. Again maybe because I have never used these- they seem like more effort than it is worth.
Even though my organization process may not be pretty I can organize and get things done. I normally have a list going which I cross off and update on a regular basis. Sometimes items take a long time and will stay on the list, other times they are simply calls I need to make and get through fast. So I can relate to some of the techniques- like anything that takes less than 2 minutes to go ahead and do immediately. I did go to David Allen's website and listened to a video showing him talking to a group. This may be sinking in but I admit it all sounds a little abstract right now.
Google Calendar- I took a tour of the site. It looked sort of like our department calendar.
Remember the milk- I took the tour- never could figure out what this looked like. I might like it because it sounds like it is more like lists. I do like lists.
Ta-da List- I am not sure I saw the advantage in this one. It looked like the same as my hand written lists. It would take me more time to log on to my computer- remember the website- remember my log in - then sit and make the list than if I just sat down and made the list with a pencil and paper. I don't get it?
Bla Bla List- I read through the FAQ because I couldn't see a tour of the site. They said they were like Ta da except with more options- like R.S.S. Again maybe because I have never used these- they seem like more effort than it is worth.
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