Including the size of your inbox in your signature
To give people a rough indication of when they might hear back from me, I am now including in my email signature the number of emails in my Inbox. I'm just doing it manually.
This is a useful technique because it let's people know that you're not ignoring their mail.
Hopefully with what I have learned from the Getting Things Done methodology, that number will soon be 0.
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Jon Aquino (Victoria BC Canada)
http://jonathanaquino.com Emails in Inbox: 109
ICQ: 334568010 MSN/Yahoo: Jonathan_Aquino
This is a useful technique because it let's people know that you're not ignoring their mail.
Hopefully with what I have learned from the Getting Things Done methodology, that number will soon be 0.
posted by Jonathan at
7/20/2005 06:53:00 p.m.
5 Comments:
but i actually rather seldom clean my inbox (5XX now).. so you write the number of unread emails..?? and that means always to reply?
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Anonymous, at 7/22/2005 4:51 p.m.
"Getting Things Done" is a great book. Number of unread emails = 0.
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Anonymous, at 7/22/2005 5:06 p.m.
Hi perriger - Yeah, number of unread emails. Whether I reply to them depends on the email - GTD teaches that you have four options:
* do it now if it takes less than 2 minutes
* delegate it to someone else
* defer it to your calendar or todo lists
* trash it
Anonymous - I'm jealous of your empty inbox. I'll be there soon.
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Jonathan, at 7/23/2005 11:09 a.m.
ok .. i think i should read that book ;)
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Anonymous, at 7/23/2005 1:06 p.m.
You'll love it!
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Jonathan, at 7/23/2005 1:18 p.m.
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