Self pep talk on my email backlog-minding

[zedmango]

Doing 1h15m of email and getting to inbox zero would allow him 1h45m of Netflix.

I just want to put in a plug for the GTD approach, like I suggested here, in which you get to inbox zero by going through all emails, and if dealing with the email would take longer than 2 minutes, you put it on a to-do list and move the email to a separate folder. That lets you process your inbox faster.

Temptation bundling for inbox beeminding

Posting my email reply: When you go through your email for inbox zero, are you replying to each individual email that requires a reply, or otherwise doing stuff for each email? Because you can just move it to a folder and add the stuff you have to do to a list, GTD-style. That way you can get to inbox zero faster. The point of inbox zero is not necessarily to complete all email-related tasks, just to list them so you don’t have unknown stuff in your email. A lot of your suggestions have the pro…