E-mail Organization
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- oddslob0
Things for mac has this dope quickentry shortcut that basically posts a link to the Email into the notes field of a todo item. So if shit hits my inbox, I make a todo item out of it, even if it's 'respond' and then i file the email immediately into one bigass 'archives' folder. The goal is to get my email inbox down to nothing just for OCD reasons, but the other goal is to get it into things where I can actually assign it to someone specifically or assign it to a specific day that it needs to be dealt with, or move it into a project folder so it becomes part of the flow. Once it's out my email and in things, i have way more control over who/how/when shit gets dealt with, so i can just carry on with my day doing my daily todo items or else deal with it immediately if its top priority.
That way, too, the completed todo items (emails and not emails) can be quickly scanned at the end of the day and i may have missed tracking the time on a small task or something so ill be reminded by seeing that I dealt with that email, hence the small task and can make sure it gets tracked and ultimately billed accordingly.