{"id":867,"date":"2010-12-24T22:06:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T05:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=867"},"modified":"2017-08-19T16:30:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T23:30:23","slug":"for-christmas-i-gave-myself-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/867","title":{"rendered":"For Christmas I gave myself nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing the GTD things for a few years and am a major fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/products\/omnifocus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OmniFocus<\/a> 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/inboxzero.com\/video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inbox Zero<\/a>. The concept is basically keeping your email inbox empty by dealing with or deleting each message.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>The last few weeks, I&#8217;ve renewed the effort and today successfully got both my personal and work mailboxes down to zero.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t at that moment.<\/p>\n<p>I like finishing the year with nothing. Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/867\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,49,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-productivity","category-thoughts","category-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vft-dZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2618,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/2618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}