Drew’s Twitters
- canion: RT @isaacforman: Was LeBron's decision show this drawn out? September 7, 2010
- canion: RT @ssharwood: and this is the bloke who wants question time to be faster and more functional! #auswaits September 7, 2010
- canion: Spit it out!!! September 7, 2010
- canion: @mjcp you are cracking me up! September 7, 2010
- canion: See what happens when you run with a visionary policy? It can win votes! #ausvotes #auswaits September 7, 2010
Hannah’s Twitters
- hbear: RT @Lyall: #AusVotes RT @robcorr: Best. Filibuster. Ever. September 7, 2010
- hbear: RT @KateLundy: New post: National Broadband Network decisive http://bit.ly/c0eEjE #nbn #ausvotes September 7, 2010
- hbear: @TanyiaMaxted I'm going to a wine night tonight in Adelaide - think I'll just be sampling the champagne! September 7, 2010
- hbear: RT @Pollytics: So - we get the NBN, the filter gets canned by the Greens BoP in the Senate, we have a tax summit and proper climate chan ... September 7, 2010
- hbear: Wahoo! #JuliaGillard #ausvotes September 7, 2010
Email: Filer or Piler?
We were having a couple of after-work drinks today, and for a short time the topic of organisation, in particular email filing, came up. On one side, we had a guy that didn't really do any filing - everything was in his 'inbox'. Even more extreme was another person who didn't even delete meaningless emails - again, everything in the 'inbox'.
A colleague and I were on the other side, organisation is key. My particular aim is to reach 'inbox zero' every day. I hate seeing a list of items sitting there, applying their silent pressure to my brain. I think that you should act on an email as soon as you get it. Sure, that decision might be as simple as tagging it for action at a later date, but at least the decision is made, the email is tagged and can be filed away. Of course, the best key to use when making filing decisions is the delete key, and I recommend that you don't hold back in its use.
So what system do you use? Do you have a system? Is it a byzantine collosus of nested folders, or do you throw everything in a single archive? Or are you one of those scary people who just lives in the inbox?