The question of the hour:
“What is your 3-5 step process for reaching inbox zero? Obviously I have my way I would do it… but I’m curious how you would do it in a series of steps, assuming I have a shit ton in my inbox now and want to get to that inbox zero approach”
You know, Stefania once had 30,000 (something like that) emails in her inbox.
And she asked me a similar question.
My answer to her is the same I’d give most (see caveat below) across the board:
1. Click “Select all”
2. Click “delete”
3. Only exception is something you have to address, etc
4. After that begin each day with inbox zero
5. In most cases, nearly every case I’ve ever seen at least, if you’re on a thread with multiple people, back and forthing, you can safely ignore it unless or until your name is specifically mentioned or you see it more than 3 times, then you might want to pay attention
6. This is similar to how time savvy people treated the old corporate memos
7. And it works
8. The above all applies to open tabs, too
9. There is a lot of freedom in mass email inbox genocide
10. And once you do it, I suspect you’ll never go back..
Anyway, do the above at your own risk, of course.
I mentioned a “caveat” to all this.
And that caveat is to do the above at your own risk.
I have to say that because there are more and more people who are so hopelessly flakey, and so despicably undisciplined… that they probably should not take the above advice, as they probably really will just end up ignoring or deleting otherwise urgent, important, and maybe even life-saving info.
Not sure where else I can take this topic.
So I’ll just end with this:
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