Comments on: Increase Productivity with Gmail Multiple Inboxes

By: pierpaolo romanelli

pierpaolo romanelli — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:43:20 +0000

Nice software to manage multiple account with Gmail.
http://www.lerisorse.com/software/Romanelli-Gmail-Tools-nice-tool-to-import-and-export-contacts-using-multiple-Gmail-Account

By: Marsha Egan

Marsha Egan — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:24:58 +0000

Kudos to you for working to keep that inbox empty. It sounds like you’ve embraced the concept of sorting, rather than working.

For those too long to read now emails, I like to set a diary or reminder to make sure I get to it. In the spirit of GTD – getting things done – using that two minute rule to decide what you’ll read and what you’ll triage, you’ll go a long way to managing your inbox.

What we need to avoid is looking at things MANY times, trying to decide whether to handle or when to handle. Make that decision the first time you look at it instead.

Good post. Marsha Egan

By: Expatify

Expatify — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:23:35 +0000

This is a great feature, but unfortunately it doesn’t work with the Rememberthemilk.com Firefox Extension as it shoves the additional inboxes below the main inbox. And I am SO MARRIED to the Rmilk extension for productivity.

By: UMJeremy

UMJeremy — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:00:54 +0000

I followed a tutorial on techwraith, but if you see the comments I adapted it a bit by using a combination of labels and quicklinks.

http://techwraith.com/2009/02/gtd-with-gmail-filters-labels-quick-links-and-multiple-inboxes/

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:49:56 +0000

I hear you @undelighted (ha!). With all the wonderful attention to email and mobile syncing lately, it’s a shame that contacts are still so neglected. There’s always next week. :-)

By: David Skarjune

David Skarjune — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:15:45 +0000

Great Gmail productivity tips, Judi! I’m running a few Lab features, and can’t wait to try this one.
The Inbox can so easily become a dysfunctional gatekeeper when users let it clog. At my last job, the Executive Director had email accounts of exited staff forwarded to her account, with some 300-500 unopened messages in her Inbox on any day. Yikes!
At my current job, I just reworked an “Info” email account that was an alias being forwarded to multiple staff, spam and all. Our agency uses Google Apps with Gmail on top of our own email server. I made a “queue” with a separate account that only shows incoming toss-up questions allowed to sit in the Inbox for 1 business day for staff review, with most of the incoming sorted out before hitting the toss-up queue.

By: undelighted

undelighted — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:50:57 +0000

Good article. Any news as to when we can expect Google Contacts to become useful to small business users as it’s pretty limited as it stands. Need to be able to share addessbooks.