Comments on: How to handle email http://www.milesburke.com.au/blog/2006/04/30/how-to-handle-email/ Thoughts on small business, the web industry and more, from Miles Burke, Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur and Geek. Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:35:44 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Kay Smoljak http://www.milesburke.com.au/blog/2006/04/30/how-to-handle-email/comment-page-1/#comment-941 Kay Smoljak Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:16:02 +0000 http://miles.burke.id.au/blog/?p=55#comment-941 Have you read David Allen's "Getting Things Done"? The system you describe is similar to what he advocates. GTD followers have an almost religious zeal that is more than a little frightening, however. I find having client-based folders more convenient to my working style, but I also archive email from previous years off into separate files. I have sent mail filed in the same folders as received, so each client has a folder with ALL correspondance. And I make a lot of use of coloured "follow up" flags and Outlook 2003's search folders... I have a search folder set up for "sent today", "sent this week", "received today" etc. What I really want now though is Gmail-style tagging in Outlook. That would rock. Have you read David Allen’s “Getting Things Done”? The system you describe is similar to what he advocates. GTD followers have an almost religious zeal that is more than a little frightening, however.

I find having client-based folders more convenient to my working style, but I also archive email from previous years off into separate files. I have sent mail filed in the same folders as received, so each client has a folder with ALL correspondance. And I make a lot of use of coloured “follow up” flags and Outlook 2003’s search folders… I have a search folder set up for “sent today”, “sent this week”, “received today” etc.

What I really want now though is Gmail-style tagging in Outlook. That would rock.

]]> By: Jimmy J http://www.milesburke.com.au/blog/2006/04/30/how-to-handle-email/comment-page-1/#comment-937 Jimmy J Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:41:13 +0000 http://miles.burke.id.au/blog/?p=55#comment-937 Hey, some good ideas there. Impressive amount of emails you deal with too... Thanks for the article! Hey, some good ideas there. Impressive amount of emails you deal with too…

Thanks for the article!

]]> By: panasianbiz http://www.milesburke.com.au/blog/2006/04/30/how-to-handle-email/comment-page-1/#comment-933 panasianbiz Sun, 30 Apr 2006 13:07:05 +0000 http://miles.burke.id.au/blog/?p=55#comment-933 I just wanted to say that I enjoyed reading your post. As someone who spends (wastes?) a lot of time on email each and every day, I really appreciated the tips you laid out here. I am going to try to use some of your filtering techniques to see if I can get my email under control! I just wanted to say that I enjoyed reading your post. As someone who spends (wastes?) a lot of time on email each and every day, I really appreciated the tips you laid out here. I am going to try to use some of your filtering techniques to see if I can get my email under control!

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