Comments on: The Airtight Inbox: A Day In the Life Of an Email Productivity Evangelist http://gigaom.com/2009/11/25/the-airtight-inbox-a-day-in-the-life-of-an-email-productivity-evangelist/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:48:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jared Goralnick http://gigaom.com/2009/11/25/the-airtight-inbox-a-day-in-the-life-of-an-email-productivity-evangelist/#comment-89634 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:36:36 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=23470#comment-89634 Roger,

Did you set up NutshellMail? It uses oAuth for every site that allows it, including Twitter and Facebook. I don’t remember if LinkedIn allows oAuth, but if they do I’m sure NutshellMail would support it.

Hope you get to try the site out!
Jared

]]> By: Roger Waggener http://gigaom.com/2009/11/25/the-airtight-inbox-a-day-in-the-life-of-an-email-productivity-evangelist/#comment-89633 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:22:14 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=23470#comment-89633 nutshellmail looked interesting to me at first, but it turns out it’s the same old ‘gimme all your logins’ dance that always makes me shudder.

Services like this need to get up to speed with things like oauth that allow 3rd party API interactions without me having to give away the combinations to all my safes and just trust the best intentions of the service provider.

]]> By: Better Working Tip: Reclaim the Morning http://gigaom.com/2009/11/25/the-airtight-inbox-a-day-in-the-life-of-an-email-productivity-evangelist/#comment-89632 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:02:12 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=23470#comment-89632 [...] Breakfast is a great time for unplugged preparation work. That could mean reading the newspaper (on my Kindle, I admit, so it’s not a completely gadget-free affair), or if I’ve got a particularly full schedule ahead, preparing an old-fashioned pen-and-paper to-do list. I still find it’s important not to brave the inbox yet at this point, or I could get lost before the day even starts (my approach is similar to Jared Goralnick’s in this respect). [...]

]]> By: Jared Goralnick http://gigaom.com/2009/11/25/the-airtight-inbox-a-day-in-the-life-of-an-email-productivity-evangelist/#comment-89631 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:47:53 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=23470#comment-89631 Awesome, Anne. Turning off email notifications is definitely the first step. I’ll check your product out!

]]> By: Jared Goralnick http://gigaom.com/2009/11/25/the-airtight-inbox-a-day-in-the-life-of-an-email-productivity-evangelist/#comment-89630 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:46:54 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=23470#comment-89630 Sounds like you’ve got a plan that works well for you, Ed! The challenge is that different people have different types of messages coming in–i.e., there are varying expectations for responsiveness when we’re dealing with clients vs. employees vs. family vs. buddies vs. people who want us to do favors for them, etc. And depending on those expectations, you may or may not need to respond right away and/or be able to let “crap build up.”

The best thing is that you’ve got a system in place and that you’re not overwhelmed. But “letting a lot of the bits go” (as Mark Hurst would call it), you’ve taken the first big step.

]]> By: Jared Goralnick http://gigaom.com/2009/11/25/the-airtight-inbox-a-day-in-the-life-of-an-email-productivity-evangelist/#comment-89629 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:43:04 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=23470#comment-89629 Hope it helps, Tim!

]]> By: Anne http://gigaom.com/2009/11/25/the-airtight-inbox-a-day-in-the-life-of-an-email-productivity-evangelist/#comment-89628 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:19:52 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=23470#comment-89628 I’m not quite as good at this as Jared, but I use a tool called Qlockwork rather than RescueTime and the best thing I’ve ever done productivity-wise is turn off my email notifications! Email is vastly distracting.

]]> By: Ed http://gigaom.com/2009/11/25/the-airtight-inbox-a-day-in-the-life-of-an-email-productivity-evangelist/#comment-89627 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:28:23 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=23470#comment-89627 Jared this sounds like a lot of work and intricately planned, but it seems like we create this vast communication web and now we have to create another layer to protect us from getting distracted by the web we’ve just created? How nuts is that! I just don’t answer the phone, except for a few people, just check the good email accounts a couple of times a day and ignore everything else until I’m done with what I need to do? No big deal if crap builds up. If it’s really important they’ll send it again.

]]> By: Tim Koelkebeck http://gigaom.com/2009/11/25/the-airtight-inbox-a-day-in-the-life-of-an-email-productivity-evangelist/#comment-89626 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:23:47 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=23470#comment-89626 Going to have to try out both NutshellMail and AwayFind Orchant.. thanks!

]]> By: Jared Goralnick http://gigaom.com/2009/11/25/the-airtight-inbox-a-day-in-the-life-of-an-email-productivity-evangelist/#comment-89625 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:27:35 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=23470#comment-89625 Thanks, Robroy! Hope you get some escape from email over Thanksgiving (and that NutshellMail helps!). Feel free to post any questions, too : ).

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