gmailzero as our emergency blog post

we realized we never blogged about gmailzero so we’re rectifying that tonight!
how have people been liking gmailzero?
i love it to pieces: bmndr.com/d/gmailzero

david, want to unfreeze yours and make sure you don’t spot anything
embarrassing with it currently?


http://dreev.es – search://"Daniel Reeves"
Follow the Yellow Brick Road – http://beeminder.com

I started marking my messages “unread”, or star them and stash them in the
starred folder. That’s just me, though - observe your own mind, and you’ll
be endlessly entertained.

Reto

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Daniel Reeves dreeves@beeminder.comwrote:

we realized we never blogged about gmailzero so we’re rectifying that
tonight!
how have people been liking gmailzero?
i love it to pieces: gmailzero – d – beeminder

david, want to unfreeze yours and make sure you don’t spot anything
embarrassing with it currently?


http://dreev.es – search://“Daniel Reeves”
Follow the Yellow Brick Road – http://beeminder.com

ha, do you mean you started doing those things as a loophole to avoid
gmailzero’s sting? :slight_smile:

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Reto Stamm reto@retostamm.com wrote:

I started marking my messages “unread”, or star them and stash them in the
starred folder. That’s just me, though - observe your own mind, and you’ll
be endlessly entertained.

Reto

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Daniel Reeves dreeves@beeminder.com
wrote:

we realized we never blogged about gmailzero so we’re rectifying that
tonight!
how have people been liking gmailzero?
i love it to pieces: gmailzero – d – beeminder

david, want to unfreeze yours and make sure you don’t spot anything
embarrassing with it currently?


http://dreev.es – search://“Daniel Reeves”
Follow the Yellow Brick Road – http://beeminder.com


http://dreev.es – search://“Daniel Reeves”
Follow the Yellow Brick Road – http://beeminder.com

Hah! I actually have a bad habit of not even touching things that look
onerous, so I’ve started doing the opposite and once I get on the road
for today, I go through and mark a bunch of other things as read
just to put myself on the hook for tomorrow.

Bethany

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Reto Stamm reto@retostamm.com wrote:

I started marking my messages “unread”, or star them and stash them in the
starred folder. That’s just me, though - observe your own mind, and you’ll
be endlessly entertained.

Reto

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Daniel Reeves dreeves@beeminder.com
wrote:

we realized we never blogged about gmailzero so we’re rectifying that
tonight!
how have people been liking gmailzero?
i love it to pieces: gmailzero – d – beeminder

david, want to unfreeze yours and make sure you don’t spot anything
embarrassing with it currently?


http://dreev.es – search://“Daniel Reeves”
Follow the Yellow Brick Road – http://beeminder.com

I also noticed that urge to use “mark as unread”, but instead opted for
followup.cc. Disadvatage - they eventually will show up :slight_smile:
I am happy gmailzero helped me to see how often I kept emails as reminders.

On 22 September 2012 07:44, Bethany M. Soule bsoule@beeminder.com wrote:

Hah! I actually have a bad habit of not even touching things that look
onerous, so I’ve started doing the opposite and once I get on the road
for today, I go through and mark a bunch of other things as read
just to put myself on the hook for tomorrow.

Bethany

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Reto Stamm reto@retostamm.com wrote:

I started marking my messages “unread”, or star them and stash them in
the
starred folder. That’s just me, though - observe your own mind, and
you’ll
be endlessly entertained.

Reto

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Daniel Reeves dreeves@beeminder.com
wrote:

we realized we never blogged about gmailzero so we’re rectifying that
tonight!
how have people been liking gmailzero?
i love it to pieces: gmailzero – d – beeminder

david, want to unfreeze yours and make sure you don’t spot anything
embarrassing with it currently?


http://dreev.es – search://“Daniel Reeves”
Follow the Yellow Brick Road – http://beeminder.com

T minus an hour and it’s now sort of readable: http://expost.padm.us/gmailzero

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Dovile J djdovile@gmail.com wrote:

I also noticed that urge to use “mark as unread”, but instead opted for
followup.cc. Disadvatage - they eventually will show up :slight_smile:
I am happy gmailzero helped me to see how often I kept emails as reminders.

On 22 September 2012 07:44, Bethany M. Soule bsoule@beeminder.com wrote:

Hah! I actually have a bad habit of not even touching things that look
onerous, so I’ve started doing the opposite and once I get on the road
for today, I go through and mark a bunch of other things as read
just to put myself on the hook for tomorrow.

Bethany

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Reto Stamm reto@retostamm.com wrote:

I started marking my messages “unread”, or star them and stash them in
the
starred folder. That’s just me, though - observe your own mind, and
you’ll
be endlessly entertained.

Reto

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Daniel Reeves dreeves@beeminder.com
wrote:

we realized we never blogged about gmailzero so we’re rectifying that
tonight!
how have people been liking gmailzero?
i love it to pieces: gmailzero – d – beeminder

david, want to unfreeze yours and make sure you don’t spot anything
embarrassing with it currently?


http://dreev.es – search://“Daniel Reeves”
Follow the Yellow Brick Road – http://beeminder.com


http://dreev.es – search://“Daniel Reeves”
Follow the Yellow Brick Road – http://beeminder.com

ok, the post is live now! blog.beeminder.com/gmailzero

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Daniel Reeves dreeves@beeminder.com wrote:

T minus an hour and it’s now sort of readable: Gmail Zero: Beeminding Your Inbox

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Dovile J djdovile@gmail.com wrote:

I also noticed that urge to use “mark as unread”, but instead opted for
followup.cc. Disadvatage - they eventually will show up :slight_smile:
I am happy gmailzero helped me to see how often I kept emails as reminders.

On 22 September 2012 07:44, Bethany M. Soule bsoule@beeminder.com wrote:

Hah! I actually have a bad habit of not even touching things that look
onerous, so I’ve started doing the opposite and once I get on the road
for today, I go through and mark a bunch of other things as read
just to put myself on the hook for tomorrow.

Bethany

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Reto Stamm reto@retostamm.com wrote:

I started marking my messages “unread”, or star them and stash them in
the
starred folder. That’s just me, though - observe your own mind, and
you’ll
be endlessly entertained.

Reto

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Daniel Reeves dreeves@beeminder.com
wrote:

we realized we never blogged about gmailzero so we’re rectifying that
tonight!
how have people been liking gmailzero?
i love it to pieces: gmailzero – d – beeminder

david, want to unfreeze yours and make sure you don’t spot anything
embarrassing with it currently?


http://dreev.es – search://“Daniel Reeves”
Follow the Yellow Brick Road – http://beeminder.com


http://dreev.es – search://“Daniel Reeves”
Follow the Yellow Brick Road – http://beeminder.com


http://dreev.es – search://“Daniel Reeves”
Follow the Yellow Brick Road – http://beeminder.com

I have carried over my pre gmail habits of archiving all posts to folders,
my gmail solution for this is to label every post (a lot labelled by
filters). So gmailzero for me is no unlabelled mail and zero tagged to do (I
use active inbox - http://www.activeinboxhq.com). What’s the “official”
definition?

On Saturday, 22 September 2012 01:10:40 UTC+1, Daniel Reeves wrote:

we realized we never blogged about gmailzero so we’re rectifying that
tonight!
how have people been liking gmailzero?
i love it to pieces: gmailzero – d – beeminder

how do I unsubscribe?

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:13 AM, boardtc boardtc@gmail.com wrote:

I have carried over my pre gmail habits of archiving all posts to folders,
my gmail solution for this is to label every post (a lot labelled by
filters). So gmailzero for me is no unlabelled mail and zero tagged to do
(I use active inbox - http://www.activeinboxhq.com). What’s the
“official” definition?

On Saturday, 22 September 2012 01:10:40 UTC+1, Daniel Reeves wrote:

we realized we never blogged about gmailzero so we’re rectifying that
tonight!
how have people been liking gmailzero?
i love it to pieces: gmailzero – d – beeminder


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On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:13 AM, boardtc boardtc@gmail.com wrote:

I have carried over my pre gmail habits of archiving all posts to
folders, my gmail solution for this is to label every post (a lot labelled
by filters). So gmailzero for me is no unlabelled mail and zero tagged
to do (I use active inbox - http://www.activeinboxhq.com). What’s the
“official” definition?

On Saturday, 22 September 2012 01:10:40 UTC+1, Daniel Reeves wrote:

we realized we never blogged about gmailzero so we’re rectifying that
tonight!
how have people been liking gmailzero?
i love it to pieces: gmailzero – d – beeminder


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official definition for gmailzero is no Read messages in your inbox.
ie, Unread messages don’t count against you since you don’t have
control over those.
i often accumulate Unread messages because of that loophole but i
periodically make my One Must-Do task be to mark everything in my
inbox as Read.

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 4:13 AM, boardtc boardtc@gmail.com wrote:

I have carried over my pre gmail habits of archiving all posts to folders,
my gmail solution for this is to label every post (a lot labelled by
filters). So gmailzero for me is no unlabelled mail and zero tagged to do (I
use active inbox - http://www.activeinboxhq.com). What’s the “official”
definition?

On Saturday, 22 September 2012 01:10:40 UTC+1, Daniel Reeves wrote:

we realized we never blogged about gmailzero so we’re rectifying that
tonight!
how have people been liking gmailzero?
i love it to pieces: gmailzero – d – beeminder


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http://dreev.es – search://“Daniel Reeves”
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Good one, the key to clearing my confusion is a line form the first link -
“GmailZero only works for people who (try to) diligently archive
messages.”. So as well as marking things as read daily you also archive
them.

I believer labelling is another form of archiving. Could the check be
configured to check for no read unlabelled messages?

On Wednesday, 13 March 2013 02:39:50 UTC, Daniel Reeves wrote:

official definition for gmailzero is no Read messages in your inbox.
ie, Unread messages don’t count against you since you don’t have
control over those.
i often accumulate Unread messages because of that loophole but i
periodically make my One Must-Do task be to mark everything in my
inbox as Read.
Gmail Zero: Beeminding Your Inbox | Beeminder Blog
The One Must-Do Task Each Day | Beeminder Blog