{"id":282,"date":"2008-12-31T20:14:59","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T20:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morris.cymru\/?p=282"},"modified":"2023-07-09T21:51:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T20:51:19","slug":"my-new-years-resolution-white-inbox-every-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morris.cymru\/en\/2008\/12\/my-new-years-resolution-white-inbox-every-night\/","title":{"rendered":"My New Year&#8217;s Resolution &#8211; White Inbox Every Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m setting myself a few New Year&#8217;s Resolutions for 2009.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll also be New Years&#8217; Resolutions. Note the apostrophe placement because some of these things are just too good for only one year.<\/p>\n<p>One of them relates to email.<\/p>\n<p>Email is a blessing and a curse for me. Recently &#8211; OK, for the last few years actually &#8211; I&#8217;ve been trying to reform my approach to it in order to get more and better stuff done in a working day.<\/p>\n<p>Some of this includes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not &#8220;living&#8221; in email (because it takes me away from project domain into message domain)<\/li>\n<li>Processing it all in one big batch, two or three times a day where possible<\/li>\n<li>Then while I am looking at it, deleting junk and spam on sight<\/li>\n<li>Ditching fiddly folders and just using one archive folder because search is all you need<\/li>\n<li>Transferring stuff to a paper to-do list or some more appropriate medium<\/li>\n<li>Phoning people instead<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/thunderbird\/\">Thunderbird<\/a> so to speed things up I&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/extensions.hesslow.se\/extension\/4\/Quicktext\/\">Quicktext<\/a> (for quick fire templates of readymade &#8220;cheat&#8221; replies) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chuonthis.com\/extensions\/buttons.php\">Buttons<\/a> so I can have a lovely massive &#8220;Archive this!&#8221; button (like the one in Gmail).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So aptly enough, I just spotted <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/billt\/status\/1088494678\">this tweet<\/a> on Twitter from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/billt\">@billt<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/suw\">@suw<\/a> linking to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cy.pledgebank.com\/tidyinbox\">new pledge on Pledgebank<\/a> (built by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysociety.org\/\">mySociety<\/a> who are doing several rather neat things with the web).<\/p>\n<p>I had no problem with the spirit of the pledge. Email was designed for sending and receiving messages. It is not a to-do list &#8211; it wasn&#8217;t designed for that.<\/p>\n<p>Now and again though there could be a day when I&#8217;d need the freedom NOT to check email, so I was initially reluctant to sign.<\/p>\n<p>Then I realised, with some <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Suw\/status\/1088530756\">prompting<\/a>, that this was about <em>inbox<\/em> rather than pop box. The distinction is important. In other words, if I don&#8217;t want to look at email for one day (which is possible and desirable once in a while!), then I can keep to the pledge by not downloading any email at all.<\/p>\n<p>Here we go.<\/p>\n<p>Between you and me I&#8217;ll be keeping the pledge whether or not they hit the target number of signatures. 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