Getting Things Done Getting E-mail “In” to Empty Most people use their e-mail “in” for staging still-undecided actionable things, reference, and even trash, a practice that rapidly numbs the mind: they [...]
Getting Things Done Organizing “Waiting For” Manage the commitments of others before their avoidance creates a crisis. Like reminders of the actions you need to do, reminders of all the things that you’re [...]
Getting Things Done Organizing Action Reminders If you’ve emptied your in-tray, you’ll have created a stack of Pending reminders for yourself, representing longer-than-two-minute actions that cannot be delegated to someone else. [...]
Getting Things Done Once You Decide What the Action Step Is You have three options once you decide what the next action really is: Do it(if the action takes less than [...]
Getting Things Done Incubate There will probably be things in your in-tray about which you will say to yourself, “There’s nothing to do on this now, but there might be later.” [...]
