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Michael Linenberger: Liberate tasks from your inbox<\/a> | 43 Folders:
“When you see a requested action in an email, don’t do it immediately. It might be one of the least important things for you to do that day. Instead, immediately identify what the action is and put the email in a task folder. Change the title so that it states what you need to do, and put a due date on it and a priority level. You can do that in 15 or 20 seconds. Then you move right on to the next email. Now you’ll get through your to-do email remarkably fast. Drag all of your other emails into a process folder, so you now have an empty inbox, which is a really nice feeling. The next thing you do is go to your task list and ask, “What are the most important things I need to do today?? That’s the stuff that would keep you from going home at the end of the day.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Linenberger: Liberate tasks from your inbox | 43 Folders:“When you see a requested action in an email, don’t do it immediately. It might be one of the least important things for you to do that day. Instead, immediately identify what the action is and put the email in a task folder. Change the title … Continue reading “Liberate tasks from your inbox”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgY3e-3I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=12","url_meta":{"origin":230,"position":0},"title":"New e-mail service from Google may top Yahoo!, Microsoft – chronicle-tribune.com","author":"Jorah","date":"April 4, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"By VANESSA DENNIS vdennis@marion.gannett.com Copy editor. 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