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Work Smart: Conquering Your Email Inbox

By: Gina TrapaniFebruary 2, 2010

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How many messages are in your email inbox right now? A few dozen? It's probably more like a few hundred, or even a few thousand. We all get too much email.

A 2008 survey at Intel showed employees receive 350 emails per week on average; at Morgan Stanley, employees get 625 new messages per week. Executives' incoming email volume was much higher. In some cases, workers spent 20 hours a week just dealing with email.

Getting through all those messages every day isn't easy. Certain kinds of email are harder to deal with than others--the ones that require you to check your calendar or look up more information, type a lengthy explanation, or make a tough decision. It's easier to procrastinate and leave those messages in your inbox when they mean work you weren't planning to do right away. But new messages just keep piling onto old ones like a game of Tetris you're about to lose.

Start using your email inbox like your postal box: empty it, every single time you check it. It's not that hard to do. If you get into the habit, you'll feel on top of your game like never before.

The key is to train yourself to make an on-the-spot decision about what you need to do with an email message--and put it in a place where you know you'll get to it on time. You don't need a complicated filing system. There are only three kinds of email messages: stuff you need to do, stuff you're waiting on, and stuff you might want to refer to later. Make three folders in your email program: To-do, Reference, and Wait. (In the screenshots here we're using Microsoft Outlook, but this system works in any email program.)

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When you read an email, if it just needs a quick response, reply on the spot. If it's trash, delete it. Everything else will go into one of your three folders.

If the message is a task you've got to complete--like a request from the boss--file it into your To-do folder, and add it to your to-do list. If the message is about something you're waiting for--like a package shipment notification or a promise from a co-worker to get you something by next Tuesday--put it in your Wait folder, and maybe even on your calendar. Everything else--the CC's, the FYI's, the "just thought you should know"s--file these in Reference. That's your library of email that you can search any time to look up information you might need later.

The hardest part about trying an empty email inbox is starting with thousands of messages. Do yourself a favor: Select all the email in your inbox that's more than three days old, and move it into a Backlog folder. Process whatever's left using your new three-folder system. When you have time you can work your way through the old message backlog--but don't worry, there will always be new email to deal with.

Set aside time each day to deal with your email (including the backlog) in batches--we'll talk more about that in an upcoming segment.

Gina Trapani is the author of Upgrade Your Life  and founding editor of Lifehacker.com. Work Smart appears every week on FastCompany.com.

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February 2, 2010 at 3:23am by Annie Daniel

Personally, I find it very hard to deal with all emails I currently have. So the tendency for all the message to pile up is there. Actually, I just delete everything even without opening every single message in my inbox. Annie Daniel

February 2, 2010 at 10:53am by Stephen Anderson

Hi Gina! You mention both Tetris and feeling "on top of your game." I just wrote an article suggesting how we might turn email into a game (a la Foursquare, Gowalla), by layering in feedback loops to reinforce the kinds of good behaviors you describe here. You might find it interesting: http://johnnyholland.org/2010/01/27/when-data-gets-up-close-and-personal...

February 2, 2010 at 11:15am by Smiley Faces

gmail has "tags" instead of folders, which lets you categorize your email with several different tags, say "business" & "receipts", rather than having to pick a single folder.
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February 2, 2010 at 11:20am by John Vasko

This sounds like a great system. I use gmail and also set up auto forwards with certain labels for newsletter subscriptions, facebook, and other notifications. Then I just go to those labels when I want to see the latest in those categories. My inbox doesn't get so cluttered that way. But I like your three folder idea for the main e-mail.

February 2, 2010 at 12:20pm by Phil Simon

Good video, Gina. Pretty neat.

I use gmail for everything so, as you know, there's no inbox per se. However, your main point is a good one: deal with things sooner rather than later. Gmail filters can essentially serve the same purpose as your folders.

I try to respond to everything very quickly, even if it's to tell the person that I'll have an answer soon. Else, it's easy for things to pile up.

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February 2, 2010 at 12:25pm by Noah Robischon

This system seems really powerful, but my WAIT folder always ends up being the repository of messages that I just ignore for days (okay, weeks). Any advice on how to force myself to deal with that folder full of messages on a regular basis?

February 2, 2010 at 1:02pm by Curtis Griesel

Spending time sorting and cleaning out your inbox is a relic of corporate email servers with tiny inbox quotas. My GMail account gives me 7.4GB of storage and growing -- I will never run out of space. Why should I spend precious time sorting mail into folders? I respond to the important emails as soon as I read them. Then they, together with the less important ones, just pile up in my inbox in a nice list sorted by the day they were received. The important stuff is taken care of, and I can quickly find anything I want using full text search that GMail provides. Why spend time sorting into folders when I could reply to a few more important emails in the amount of time it would take?

February 2, 2010 at 1:54pm by Al Maloney

How about using GTDinbox for Gmail on Firefox?

February 2, 2010 at 4:27pm by Steve Fogel

I actually have an empty email inbox. The best set of tools and skills I've learned came from David Allen and his Getting Things Done books and seminars. His website has some good resources including a little self-test at
http://www.gtdiq.com/

and an article on email getting email under control on the bottom right of that same page or try this link

http://www.gtdiq.com/media/pdf/Getting%20Email%20under%20control.pdf

To me these are the black belt techniques for personal productivity.

February 2, 2010 at 8:19pm by David Osedach

I get roughly 800 to a thousand emails/week. Since I go on line six or seven times a day I empty my various email boxes a lot. Don't forget weekends!

February 3, 2010 at 9:55am by Mark Moreno

Every january nearly every business person I know is trying to be more productive, 20 hours a week on email? Some really good ideas here to make it through email hell!

February 3, 2010 at 12:06pm by Dewita Soeharjono

How about separate your business from personal email? Would that be a better solution?

February 8, 2010 at 7:07pm by Michael Adamsky

Better even yet, just write rules. For example, first create a "CC:" folder. Then write a rule that automatically dumps every incoming message for which you are a cc: recipient into that folder. Then just check that folder, say, once each day. Instant 50% reduction in inbox volume.

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Losing Our World's Languages

Every 14 days a language dies. By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth—many of them not yet recorded—may disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment, and the human brain.

National Geographic's Enduring Voices Project (conducted in collaboration with the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages) strives to preserve endangered languages by identifying language hotspots—the places on our planet with the most unique, poorly understood, or threatened indigenous languages—and documenting the languages and cultures within them.

Why Is It Important?

Language defines a culture, through the people who speak it and what it allows speakers to say. Words that describe a particular cultural practice or idea may not translate precisely into another language. Many endangered languages have rich oral cultures with stories, songs, and histories passed on to younger generations, but no written forms. With the extinction of a language, an entire culture is lost.

Much of what humans know about nature is encoded only in oral languages. Indigenous groups that have interacted closely with the natural world for thousands of years often have profound insights into local lands, plants, animals, and ecosystems—many still undocumented by science. Studying indigenous languages therefore benefits environmental understanding and conservation efforts.

Studying various languages also increases our understanding of how humans communicate and store knowledge. Every time a language dies, we lose part of the picture of what our brains can do.

Why Do Languages Die Out?

Throughout human history, the languages of powerful groups have spread while the languages of smaller cultures have become extinct. This occurs through official language policies or through the allure that the high prestige of speaking an imperial language can bring. These trends explain, for instance, why more language diversity exists in Bolivia than on the entire European continent, which has a long history of large states and imperial powers.

As big languages spread, children whose parents speak a small language often grow up learning the dominant language. Depending on attitudes toward the ancestral language, those children or their children may never learn the smaller language, or they may forget it as it falls out of use. This has occurred throughout human history, but the rate of language disappearance has accelerated dramatically in recent years.

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Whats New!

 

Alley Cat Rescue is on Facebook!

 

We have an Alley Cat Rescue Group on Facebook. This is a great way to share news, participate in discussions, share photos, and leave comments on ACR’s wall.

To join, simply follow this link.

 

Spay Day USA

 

February 23th marks the 16th annual Spay Day USA, and to celebrate, Alley Cat Rescue will be hosting a low-cost spay/neuter clinic on February 25th and 26th.  The event will assist both domestic (family pets) and feral cats. For $30 per cat, individuals will have their cats sterilized and vaccinated. For individuals practicing trap-neuter-return, a limited number of traps are available, so please contact ACR to reserve one. For more information and to sign up for Spay Day, please contact ACR.

 

Free Feral Cat Spay Day (FFCSD)

 

On April 27, 2010, Alley Cat Rescue is launching Free Feral Cat Spay Day to encourage the veterinary community and individuals to get involved in putting an end to cat homelessness and decreasing euthanasia rates at local shelters. ACR President and TNR pioneer, Louise Holton, sent out a plea to veterinarians across the US, asking them to participate on this important day by offering at least TWO FREE SPAYS OR NEUTERS of FERAL CATS to the public. For more information on ACR’s new national initiative and to find out if your veterinarian is participating, please click here.


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Alley Cat Rescue is helping to solve the crisis and tragedy of unwanted and abandoned cats.


Alley Cat Rescue (ACR) works to protect cats on several levels: locally through rescue, rehabilitation and adoption of cats and nationally through a network of Cat Action Teams.  ACR is dedicated to the health, well-being and welfare of all cats: domestic, stray, abandoned and feral.  ACR also assists the international animal community.

 

PLEASE SPAY AND NEUTER YOUR COMPANION ANIMALS. This will save millions of lives, and stop the killing in the nation's shelters. Six million healthy, unwanted animals are killed in shelters each and every year. ACR is striving to lower these numbers and to put an end to the suffering and unnecessary death of innocent animals. ACR also works to PREVENT feral colonies from forming. Spaying and neutering outdoor cats helps to stop new cats from joining and forming feral colonies.


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Alley Cat Rescue operates a TNR program for feral cats. Feral cats are sterilized, eartipped, vaccinated against rabies and distemper, and are treated for internal parasites and fleas. For more information on TNR, scheduling an appointment, and borrowing a trap, please check out our Programs.


Adoption:
ACR has many domestic cats in need of good homes. Please visit the PETsMART at 12020 Cherry Hill Rd. in Silver Spring, MD to meet our cats up for adoption or call (301)586-8262 to speak to a manager about our cats. You can also view them online at Petfinder or Pets911. Barn homes are also needed for feral cats; please check out our Programs for more information.

 

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In September of 2008, ACR traveled to Africa to research the plight of the African Wildcat (AWC). Like so many cat species, the AWC is facing extinction. Besides threats from human encroachment (land development, farmers killing them), hybridization is the main cause of the Wildcat's decline. Stray and feral domestic cats are inter-breeding with the AWC, diluting its genes and basically breeding it out of existence.


While in Africa , ACR met with several animal protection organizations and a veterinary school to discuss establishing a mobile vet clinic to implement a TNR program for the free-roaming domestic cats wandering near game reserves where AWCs live. To learn more about this project and how you can help, please follow this link

 

 

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CouchDB: The Definitive Guide

About the Book

This is the home of a free O’Reilly Media book about Apache CouchDB.

The book is designed to guide you gently through using CouchDB with clear but practical scenarios. We progressively showcase key features, starting with simple document CRUD, working through to advanced MapReduce, and culminate with deployment tuning for performance and reliability.

Sign up to the mailing list to stay updated and discuss changes. Each paragraph has a handy Comment link that allows you to quote text and post a comment to the mailing list. Feel free to make liberal use of this feature.

This book is a work in progress. The number of chapters linked below reflect our progress.

We’re mainly looking for high level commentary on the topics covered and on our clarity, tone, and pacing. Our editor will take care of spelling and other nitpicks.

Foreword

Preface

Part I. Introduction

01. Why CouchDB?

02. Eventual Consistency

03. Getting Started

04. The Core API

Part II. Developing with CouchDB

05. Design Documents

06. Finding Your Data with Views

07. Validation Functions

08. Show Functions

09. Transforming Views with List Functions

Part III. Example Application

10. Standalone Applications

11. Managing Design Documents

12. Storing Blog Posts in Documents

13. Displaying Blog Posts with Shows

14. Viewing Lists of Blog Posts

Part IV. Deploying CouchDB

15. Scaling Basics

16. Replication

17. Conflict Management

18. Load Balancing

19. Clustering

Part VI. Reference

20. Change Notifications

21. Views for SQL Jockeys

22. Security

23. High Performance

24. Recipes

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A. Installing on Unix-like systems

B. Installing on Mac OS X

C. Installing on Windows

D. Installing from Source

F. JSON Primer

G. The Power of B-Trees

http://csswizardry.com/2010/01/iphone-css-tips-for-building-iphone-websites/

iPhone CSS—tips for building iPhone websites

With the rapid rise in mobile browsers, it has probably never been more important to ensure your sites can be handled on these platforms. By far one of the most popular such browsers is Mobile Safari on the iPhone—this is one of the easiest browsers to develop for: it runs on Webkit (meaning a lot of rich CSS3 support) and it’s only ever on one resolution and on one OS.

N.B. This article addresses iPhone development and iPhone development only. There is no reason why you cannot or should not develop for other mobile devices and platforms, Apple or otherwise. This just happens to be an iPhone only post.

The practical upshot of this is that you need to do no cross-browser testing, and can use all the CSS3 you like. This post will show you some of the basics of developing and designing websites for the iPhone and Mobile Safari.

To start

The first thing to remember when developing a site to be displayed on an iPhone is that it is very similar to designing a print stylesheet. You need to linearise everything. Make sure you have one column and everything is read in one line—straight from top to bottom. This will also put your markup writing skills to the test.

Some people don’t agree with browser sniffing, but you need to detect the iPhone somehow.

This first bit of code is a PHP browser sniffing snippet, the actual CSS we’ll use is not brought through via any server side code, we’ll use some CSS media queries for that. What we’ll use this code for is serving the markup with an iPhone specific meta tag and to shorten the current page’s title.

<?php
  $browser = strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"iPhone");
    if ($browser == true){
    $browser = 'iphone';
  }
?>

What the above code does is sees if the user agent contains any instance of ‘iPhone’ using the strpos PHP function. Place this piece of code at the very top of your header include, before any other markup. In order to action something if the browser is an iPhone, simply use the following bit of PHP logic in the place you want it to be initiated:

<?php if($browser == 'iphone'){ ?>DO THIS<?php } ?>

We want people to save your site to their home screen…

Now, to put that snippet to use. We want to do two things with this little piece of PHP.

Saving to the homescreen—shortening the page title

An iPhone screenshot of the CSS Wizardry home screen icon

First off, we’d like users to be able to save a link to your site on their home screen, this is simple enough, they simply need to select to do so from within the browser. However, if you look at the title of my home page alone, it’s quite long: CSS Wizardry—CSS, Web Standards, Typography, and Grids by Harry Roberts. This would never fit underneath an icon without being shortened, so we need to serve a different title to the iPhone only. To achieve this we us the PHP snippet like so:

<?php if($browser == 'iphone'){ ?>
  <title>Short iPhone only title</title>
<?php }else{ ?>
  <title>Regular title</title>
<?php } ?>

Now, both when browsing and saving your site to their home screen, a user will only ever see the shortened version.

The home screen icon

Actually making the icon is very simple. All you need to do is upload a 57×57px icon (usually a larger version of your favicon) to your server root. The icon must be named apple-touch-icon.png, and the iPhone will sort the rest out. See my icon.

Stopping user pinch-zooming

The second use for the PHP snippet is to serve the iPhone a meta tag which disables the user pinch-zoom that Mobile Safari offers:

<?php if($browser == 'iphone'){ ?>
  <meta name="viewport"
  content="width=device-width,
  minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0" />
<?php } ?>

This means that, once we’ve linearised the content and sorted the font sizing, the user will only ever have to traverse down your page, much like a native app.

Beginning styling

Some developers prefer to redirect iPhone users to a totally different version of the site—we won’t be doing that.

We could use the PHP snippet to serve the iPhone a whole new stylesheet, or even send the user to a whole new site, rather like Twitter does (m.twitter.com). However, there’s a simpler way to do it using some CSS media queries. The advantage of this is that you’re simply reusing old content and pre-written markup, and only ever using one CSS file.

The first thing you need to do is make sure the HTML link element that points to your main stylesheet does not have a media attribute:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/path/to/style.css" />

Next, we’re going to use Quick Tip #15 that I wrote on my Quick Tips page. This means that we can just add our iPhone styles directly onto the end of the main stylesheet, and inherit all the styles set for desktop viewing:

/*--- Main CSS here ---*/

/*------------------------------------*\
	IPHONE
\*------------------------------------*/
@media screen and (max-device-width: 480px){
/*--- iPhone only CSS here ---*/
}

Now any CSS before the media query will be used across all platforms, but anything between the query will be used by any screen media with a maximum screen size of 480px (i.e. an iPhone).

Things to remember

There are a few key things to remember when developing CSS for the iPhone:

  • Avoid explicit absolute widths—where possible you should use percentage widths.
  • Linearise everything—where possible, remove all floats. We want no content side-by-side unnecessarily.

The first thing to do is to set the -webkit proprietary CSS -webkit-text-size-adjust on the body which will resize the text for you, meaning you shouldn’t have to touch any font sizes yourself. Also, if your body copy is set in a sans font such as Arial, now is your chance to use some Helvetica—for normal sites, Helvetica should not be used as body copy as it renders hideously on a PC. Take advantage of the fact that you can guarantee its presence and quality on an iPhone. Change your font-family:

/*--- Main CSS here ---*/

/*------------------------------------*\
	IPHONE
\*------------------------------------*/
@media screen and (max-device-width: 480px){
body{
  -webkit-text-size-adjust:none;
  font-family:Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;
  padding:5px;
}
}

Above, I also added a small padding to make sure nothing touches the edge of the browser. All wrapper and content divs from here on in should be set to width:100%; making them the whole width of the screen, minus 10px.

Structure

Now, as all layouts differ I am going to assume a similar one to mine, a simple two column set up with a logo and menu in the header. If your layout is different I am sure you can quite easily retrofit it. As I mentioned before, remove all stylistic floats and set all widths to 100%. If you are using divs sensibly (i.e. for large bodies of content and not for nav items) this code should see you right for linearising the content:

@media screen and (max-device-width: 480px){
body{...}
div{
  clear:both!important;
  display:block!important;
  width:100%!important;
  float:none!important;
  margin:0!important;
  padding:0!important;
}
}

That will force all divs to rest one on top of the other, full width and in order. You have begun linearising all your content.

The navigation

If you have a navigation menu in which all the items are floated and made horizontal, insert the following:

@media screen and (max-device-width: 480px){
body{...}
div{...}
#nav,#nav li{
  float:none!important;
  clear:both!important;
  margin:0 0 20px 0!important;
  display:block;
  padding:0;
  text-align:left!important;
  width:100%;
}
#nav{
  border:1px solid #ccc;
  padding:5px;
  -webkit-border-radius:5px;
}
#nav li{
  margin:0!important;
}
#nav li a{
  display:block;
}
}

A screenshot of the CSS Wizardry navigation menu on an iPhone

This then will give you a vertical navigation menu which has a 100% width and the actual links themselves have a larger hit area (applied via display:block;), meaning that it’s prominent at the top of each page and easier for users to select single items.

Images

As images inherently have a set pixel width (i.e. their own width) there is a high chance that they will break out of the wrapper area (as a lot of images will be above 480px wide). To combat this simply add the following:

@media screen and (max-device-width: 480px){
body{...}
div{...}
#nav,#nav li{...}
img{
  max-width:100%;
  height:auto;
}
}

Other than elements very specific to my site, that is pretty much