Email inbox is not a todo-list!
Posted by Paolo Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:16:00 GMT
Well, not a great post today but I wanted to report a great video I discovered trough www.presentationzen.com. I hearthly share its content so… go on!
I have a bad relationship with emails. It’s not that I don’t like them but I think that checking the inbox too often is a compulsive action, not a necessity. I hate those email clients which notify me when a new mail arrives. It’s distracting… it’s totally unproductive… I mean, the power of emails is that you can receive them when you’re offline or busy and you can read them when you want to. I said WHEN YOU WANT TO. Whenever I find myself hitting F5 on Gmail I feel like a dog waiting for a cookie. And even when people are not compulsively checking their inboxes… they’re probably scanning their past messages in order to organize their days. Scanning messages over and over again. Not a good practice if you want to get things done.
Are email clients becoming our new to-do managers? Should we spend so much time on our email inbox? Should our lives be email driven?
On this subject Merlin Mann gave us a great presentation inlined here:
