Managing Chaos

May 14, 2007

How to Install Microsoft Vista

March 21, 2006

Managing The Trusty Ol' Email InBox

43Folders is doing a great series on managing your email inbox. The series, Inbox Zero, covers topics liks "Five Sneaky Email Cheats," "Where Filters Will and Won't Help," "Delete, Delete, Delete," (gee, I'm not sure what that one might be about), "Schedule Email Dashes" and more.

Here's an excerpt from the series introduction:

Clearly, the problem of email overload is taking a toll on all our time, productivity, and sanity, mainly because most of us lack a cohesive system for processing our messages and converting them into appropriate actions as quickly as possible.

So, over the next few days, I’ll be sharing detailed tips — some old and some new — on how I deal with email. Like most stuff here, there’s no guarantee that this will be any kind of panacea for you. Each of our needs and challenges differ, and there’s no one correct way to do practically anything. As ever, some of this will be more or less useful for you, and you should choose your own major changes with care and mindfulness.

Having said that, I really believe that there is a common set of errors and problems that many of us share — including a handful of terrible habits that have been reinforced by the most popular email programs.

I hope you’ll find some ideas that help you get a handle on your email issues and might improve the place that email has in your life.

Oh, and in case you're wondering: Mine is completely empty!

February 17, 2006

Twilight of the Blogs

In an interesting article in Slate, Daniel Gross asks if blogs as a business are on the decline:

As a cultural phenomenon, blogs are in their gangly adolescence. Every day, thousands of people around the world launch their blogs on LiveJournal or the Iranian equivalent. But as businesses, blogs may have peaked. There are troubling signs—akin to the 1999 warnings about the Internet bubble—that suggest blogs have just hit their top.

July 15, 2005

MindManager

I am deeply, madly, passionatly in love with Mindjet's MindManager software. We've deployed the X5 and X5 Pro versions in our office, and the staff are swooning. If you are one of those folks who love to do mind-mapping, or who frequently are in brainstorming sessions, this is well worth the cost of the software (which is about $190 on PCConnection).

You can find a 21-day free demo here.