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Inbox Zero - do you have an email issue - I did!

Inbox Zero is a policy promoted by Merlin Mann a San Francisco blogger (he gets called a "productivity guru") who has been spreading the Inbox Zero gospel - since 2006. I've modified it to IZZD - see below.

I have only just picked this up - Thanks to The Times Saturday 30th August 2008 - and I think it's wonderful. Such a simple thing to do - but SO effective. I have around 400 mails a day and a lot of them are automatically put away in folders. That stills leaves plenty to play on my mind.

His is a ruthless program of culling the inbox into categories: Do, Delete, Archive and a few for special projects to keep them together. At the end of the process you have Inbox Zero.

All I have done is adapt the above principle to the way I work. One of my important folders is "Archive", it actually holds everything that I've dealt with but I might just need at a future date.

Then my Inbox folder is empty, and matters waiting for attention are kept in Do. So my entire incoming mail that is not sorted by other methods, is posted as it arrives. Then I allocate time to deal with and Do. Simple and unstressful

Then, as simple as it sounds - I keep an eye on "Do", each night I make a note in my paper diary of how many left- the goal is "Zero Do" It works for me. use it if it works for you - IZZD Inbox Zero - Zero Do.

Isn't it amazing that adopting a simple strategy can have such an effect. Email WAS overwhelming - NOW I control it. Thanks to Merlin Mann.

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