Posts Tagged ‘inbox’

3 People You Need to Train to Use the Inbox

When you get to your desk, is there a message slip on your keyboard? Maybe a Post-It note on your monitor? Perhaps a stack of important files on your chair? Each of those piles of paperwork needs your attention, but there's not exactly any order to it. The files will get stacked somewhere else on your desk so you can sit down. The message slip will get pushed off to… Continue reading

April 28 2009 | By Thursday | Tagged: filing, inbox, paper | 14 comments»

9 Places to Always Keep Pen and Paper Handy

Wouldn't it be nice if ideas came to you when they were supposed to? You sit down, decide to be creative, and boom: you're creative. The juices flow, the ideas are endless, and your brilliance just runneth over onto the page. Unfortunately, that's not the case. For most of us, our creative and inspirational moments come at random, unpredictable, and often totally inconvenient times. There's no rhyme or reason to it… Continue reading

April 21 2009 | By David | Tagged: capture, inbox, notebook, organization, paper, pen, ubiquitous capture | 25 comments»

Back to Basics: Capture Your Ideas

Does this sound familiar? You’re slowly drifting off to sleep when you come up with a great line for the song or paper you’ve been working on all day. It’s such a great idea, in fact, that you just know you’ll remember it in the morning. Happy to have finally come up with the perfect line, you nod off, smiling and peaceful. In the morning, of course, it’s gone. All that… Continue reading

July 4 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: capture, idea, inbox, memory, moelskine, notebook, processing, todo | 24 comments»

Back to Basics: Your Inbox

This is the first post in an ongoing series I’m calling “back to Basics”, a “refresher course” in personal productivity. For people just starting to grapple with issues of productivity, it will serve as an introduction to the basic concepts that underlie much of what we write here at Lifehack. For more advanced readers, it will serve as a reminder of what you thought you were setting out to do… Continue reading

June 20 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: back-to-basics, capture, collection, gtd, inbox | 23 comments»

How Many Inboxes Do You Have?

Itzy Sabo has a good reminder on not only your in-tray on your desk and email inbox are your Inboxes. There are couple of them around you and you may not notice it - such as voicemail, notes in your palm, RSS feed reader and so on. I am sure you will agree with Itzy, there are too much unprocessed stuff accumlate and we should start integrate the inboxes together… Continue reading

March 2 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: gtd, inbox, Productivity | no comments»