I’m a filter whore with Gmail. Everything gets a tag, usually auto archived away to its folder where I can promptly ignore it. After joining the Inbox Zero mindset, I started to think that having things auto archived from Gmail’s inbox didn’t really count. I wasn’t acting on these messages anyway, and often missed emails entirely.
So today starts a new experiment: I turned off the “Archive It (Skip the Inbox)” button on all of the rules in my personal Gmail account so that everything hits my inbox now and I have to manually archive them away. My thought process is that at least this way I have to actively scan the headlines before deciding whether or not to ignore them. This will also make Inbox Zero a true Zero, where all of my incoming bits are managed. I’ll try this for a week or so and report back as to my progress.
January 5th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 2 comments