Minor GTD with Gmail Corrections
More than a year ago, I published the GTD with Gmail Whitepaper here on space-age wasteland. Some very minor (but very confusing) errors were pointed out and I have revised the document. Here it is.
More than a year ago, I published the GTD with Gmail Whitepaper here on space-age wasteland. Some very minor (but very confusing) errors were pointed out and I have revised the document. Here it is.
June 14th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
Thanks for the white paper on GTD/GMail. I’m liking how it feels so far. Has anyone already suggested the following:
create a contact named next actions with the email address of joe.blow+NextActions@gmail.com
create a filter to apply the Next Actions label to any email addressed that way? It saves a step or two.
June 14th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
Hi Bruce,
Thanks for visiting. Yes, I did tinker with using email address based filters for a while, but realized that the few seconds it takes to process them is actually valuable to my workflow. I do think it’s a great tip though. I do have a filter that adds a star if I put “ACT” in the subject for next actions. I also use a few greasemonkey scripts (see this page) that help my process without taking my mind out of it. Thanks for coming by!
June 22nd, 2006 at 5:01 pm
I just finished reading GTD and am anxious to get started but am having a hard time deciding on an electronic system to try. I love gMail and use it constantly and am thinking I am going to try your system first.
I do have a question though. Do you use a separate gMail account for GTD than your normal everyday gMail account? It appears that way from your article and that is what I am thinking of doing. What do you think?
I guess I really need to learn how to use labels and stars now.
Scott
June 22nd, 2006 at 9:55 pm
Hi Scott,
One inbox to rule them all. Any email that comes in gets processed as an action. It works very well actually. I’ve known people to use 2, but it isn’t easy to switch between accounts in gmail… that’s my biggest complaint with the method.
Thanks for reading!
August 1st, 2006 at 2:06 pm
How do you mark items “done”?
August 1st, 2006 at 4:09 pm
Hi Charles,
Sometimes I delete the item (I don’t really need to keep track of every time I told myself to mow the lawn). If I need the reference, I remove it from the Project label and remove the star. Sometimes I’ll add it to a new context so it can be easily found.
November 2nd, 2006 at 1:24 am
this is great!
one quick question i have is, what is the “eom” stand for / refer to that seems to be in your emails?
thanks!
November 2nd, 2006 at 6:05 am
“eom” is “End of Message.” If the subject says it all, “eom” will save a click into the message.