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- Mark_DeRidder, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Wow, Merlin really looks like the Verizon Guy, especially with that jacket on and especially when he said "Can you hear me?" at the beginning.
- binorgog, on 08/07/2008, -0/+6Fantastic information. I'm a ZERO INBOX junkie, and this guy is a guru
- z0rz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Actually the GMail paradigm is to keep your inbox to zero, but archive everything. So when you need to look at an old message it's just in one big pool, and you search for it with your google goggles.
- Camuel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Advanced common sense -- like it.
- MacNTT, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Merlin is my hero.
- saleem, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5good presentation, but the slides should be more informative in case I dont have an hour for his lecture on e-mail philosophy. i dont want slides of web 2.0 sandwiches.
- chrisgeleven, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3In gmail's case, just archive it so you can still search for e-mails but your inbox is uncluttered.
That is what I do. Delete all e-mails unless I am sure I will need to search for it at some point. In that case, I archive the e-mail. - skrowl, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Link to the rest of the series: http://www.43folders.com/izero/
Very informative, but the gist is: Use lots of rules and folders/tags to categorize your email as soon as it hits your inbox. - binorgog, on 08/07/2008, -0/+3Actually his presentation is only 30 mins, the last 30 mins are questions from the audience.
- SVPirate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You and me both, but a lot of people don't, then get frustrated, and don't know how to get sorted out. Merlin is here to help them. Props to Mr Mann.
Remember, whatever your field of expertise or brilliance, there are always people who are not as good as you, and the difference between a good expert and a bad one is if they say "I'm great at that, you suck" or "I'm pretty good at that, let me show you how..." - mapkinase, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Why do you need to acrhive? New email is unread, if you read it it becomes old. It is like archive and inbox in one place, separated but easily accessible.
- killdashnine, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Quotes from GMail's "About" Page:
"You never know when you might need to see a message again. So why delete it?"
"Storing mail in folders with subfolders and nested sub-sub folders is not a productive way to spend your day. What's the point?" - karthickdoss, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Merlin is Great !!
- mapkinase, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I guess it's about time we start digg common sense over here.
- MrFatalistic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2you know what I don't think has ever been covered (not that I've made it through GTD or read 43 folders religiously) is what do you do about being an efficient freak - and people KNOW it. Everything, people will find a way to make it your responsibility. People shuffle off their responsibilities on to you because you're just so capable. The common response will be "those people will not advance" - and that my friends, is *****. Your social networking skills matter 99% and your efficiency is 1% if that.
- CaseyTokyo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Great presentation. Nice Keynote type slides. But Merlin needs to improve his fashion.
- tuqqer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yeah, if I already do and know something, the people who skill others in that knowledge are lame. And obvious.
- fabio1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1this was a nice presentation, thanks to the submitter... and the presentation actually lasts 35minutes or so, the rest is just the q&a.session.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I follow several companies and their associated industry milieu. I have pages of google alerts and 100s of emails a day. They all need to be skimmed.
Anything less than 100 emails a day seems ridiculously easy to handle. I could go through 100 emails in minutes. Maybe people just need to learn to read faster. - jstanden, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Just look at how companies are managing thousands of e-mail messages a day and scale it down to the context of a person. Sure, companies can throw more resources at any problem -- but that's not what the smart ones are doing to reduce e-mail clutter.
Rules for sorting are an obvious first step, you want to get the predictable clutter out of your inbox. But where Gmail (and almost every other mail app) fail is in helping you do something about the piles of mail you already have sitting there. Just putting crap in folders and saying "I have an empty inbox!" is about 10% of the solution.
You can reduce and reduce and reduce into sub-sub-sub folders, but at some point you still have to do the work.
(Full disclosure: I write/sell team-based e-mail software) - jstanden, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yeah, you hear about that all the time for improving productivity. It's the opposite of sales training: "Learn to say no." ;)
- klauern, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I thought this was a very intriguing presentation. Not often do I hear about Google's faults, but from what I got out of this presentation is that Google has no good design to disseminate information in email. They say they get 500+ emails a day. That is simply insane. I was thinking that it might be due to their genius at being able to handle that many tasks, but then I heard another person saying that only 1-2% of their emails are actionable.
I just thought it was kind of odd that their email accounts were burdened by so much stuff, most of which isn't productively useful during the day. Maybe they need something else other than email. I mean, they are Google, and there's enough brainpower in there to come up with something that could rival communication beyond email... Just a thought.
I suppose Gmail was an attempt, but that doesn't seem to be helping... - NerdyNinja, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1'Gooooooooooood.'
- mapkinase, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1There is status: unread or read. Every email program has it. Once you read it it becomes "read" or "archived" if you want.
- luarpro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0You can also watch his presentation here:
http://www.vcasmo.com/video/six/323 - SavedSoul, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Great Presentation! Very informative and motivating!
- last4internet, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0The point is that I now have all of the near 3GB of Gmail storage full and I can't even send mails out anymore. Now what I do? I've been using it for work emails for some time now and attachments are really filling it up..
- killdashnine, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3While I sat there and watched the hour-long video, my Inbox filled up ;)
It's a nice technique, but I prefer the GMail paradigm ... let the thing fill up, then search it! - Upas, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0I've been doing this forever... but I guess its good for someone to present it.
- Wyrmwood47, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0What's great is Merlin is so on target....and his Google Audience invented the antithesis of this
- heavyal, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1I'm at work and don't have time to watch an hour long presentation - could someone summarize?
- mapkinase, on 10/10/2007, -8/+3Obvious. Lame. I was doing this a natural result of dealing w/ emails since 1989.
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