June 29, 2005

Email overload? Time to “Getting things done”?

Waking up my laptop, I suddenly thought of this post by Mark:

plaxoed! ? Americans obsess over e-mail? Ask a Microsoftie? [Mark Jen?s life @ Plaxo]

At Plaxo, people say they get buried under e-mails when they get maybe 50-75 a day. At MSFT, that?s approximately how much a typical PM gets in an hour

He’s exaggerating a bit, but I went to bed at 4am, and now at 10am I have 30 unread messages in my inbox. And trust me - my inbox is heavily heavily filtered. I suspect that by 11 it will grow to 60 if I don’t take action.

This Friday I will read Getting Things Done.

Posted by: dtc @ 10:11 am

4 Comments to “Email overload? Time to “Getting things done”?”

  1. Mark Jen Says:

    So how much e-mail would you be getting if you didn’t have any inbox filters?

  2. Gene Says:

    How much email would a PM chuck if a PM could chuck email?

  3. ec Says:

    Let me know how GTD is! It has sort of a cult-like following doesn’t it?

  4. Dennis T Cheung Says:

    Indeed. And I overslept on Friday. So I guess I’m not on the right track to getting things done :(

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