I’ve been doing the GTD things for a few years and am a major fan of OmniFocus by the Omni Group (they got my money for my Mac, my iPhone, and iPad). A similar concept pertains to email and that is of Inbox Zero. The concept is basically keeping your email inbox empty by dealing with or deleting each message.
I’ve longed wanted to get down to an empty inbox. About a year ago, I went from a few hundred down to about 100 but getting past was more difficult than I would have imagined.
The last few weeks, I’ve renewed the effort and today successfully got both my personal and work mailboxes down to zero.
The trick, of course, is keeping it empty. I get enough mail both personally and professionally so I will continue to leverage the power of OmniFocus to capture anything I need to deal with but can’t at that moment.
I like finishing the year with nothing. Merry Christmas.
As an interesting coincidence, I got NOTHING, after spending around $700-1000 on everyone else. Two less items than last year, and those were unexpected. I pretended to buy myself something on Xmas Eve…I wanted the Mexican Cactus Breakfast, but had to settle for Huevos Rancheros. There’s a little Carlie Brown Xmas Tree on my desk here I am about to hurly violently into the trash