This article leads to other two:
- Geek to Live: Empty your inbox with the Trusted Trio, that basically describes a system with only three folders:
Action, for the tasks you must complete; Archive, for long-term store of emails and Hold, for actions you will handler during the next days. :(- Separate your email from your to-do's, this article is the interesting one, because it comes to the method that I'm currently using (without success). It basically says something evident "email isn't a good task manager", the subject of a email doesn't express the thing you have to do, you need to reread the chain of emails to realize what is you task. What it proposes is to keep a separated list of TO-DO where you write the task you have to do (you stop using the email as a task manager) and also rename the Action folder to FOLLOWUP, here you'll store the emails that need a replay, making also a notation in your TO-DO list: ... (followup)... to know the email is in that folder.
I think that the FOLLOWUP folder is a good idea, I'll try, let see.
