iHCPL #29 Email

In both my work and personal emails, I hardly use folders besides the ones that are already on their as default ones (inbox, spam, and trash). In the future (meaning now) I will try and start creating folders to keep both my work and personal emails much more organized. For instance, if I have an email giving me a reminder about school, then I will now put that in my school folder. If I have an email about timesheets being doing, I'll put that in my timesheets folder, etc etc.

It's also amazing how many emails I never delete. Looking through my personal email, I found emails from 2006 and some from late 2005. It's interesting reading what they were about, but they were all useless. Once deleted, quite a bit of space was freed up. Hopefully I will start deleting emails once they are no longer needed.

iHCPL #28 Spring Cleaning

My organizational system is slightly different than GTD (Getting Things Done). My system typically revolves around constant reminders on multiple calendars. If I have a test coming up for school or a project due way in advance, I will write it down on a regular calendar. Then I will type it on an online calendar that notifies me by email when something is coming up (Yahoo has a calendar and since that is my most used email, I use that). Using GTD can be effective if used solely that way, but typically I'll combine my own simple method with some of the aspects of GTD (even though I didn't know it previously).