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I’ve recently been converted. No, I’m not talking about religion here. (Who knows why I would ever want to blog about religion, anyway!) I’m actually talking about something much more relevant to most of us in this day and age: e-mail.

An iniative called Inbox Victory from the F.A.T. (free art and technology) website is encouraging people to take pictures and screenshots of when they have managed to clear out their email inbox. Have you ever been in the situation where you spend days trying answer all of your email only to accomplish your goal and have no one to share in your victory?

by Samuel Sennott GMAIL for Listservs Part One of Three By using GMAIL to access your listserv accounts, you can save every email sent, providing you with a keyword searchable help database that lives in your archived email stack.  For example, I have 2342 archived emails from an assistive technology

Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2008 | Inman News Later this morning, I’m honored to be delivering the keynote address at the Inman Real Estate Connect conference here in San Francisco — coincidentally, a conference I attended in 2000 as the “Senior Producer” (whatever that means) for the real estate dotcom I was working for.

After declaring inbox bankruptcy, changing the way I collect and manage my email, and tweeting a few times about my attempt to embrace the zen of Inbox Zero, I decided to automate the process, removing any potential editorialising between email client and reporting of the project status.

After declaring inbox bankruptcy, changing the way I collect and manage my email, and tweeting a few times about my attempt to embrace the zen of Inbox Zero, I decided to automate the process, removing any potential editorialising between email client and reporting of the project status.

If Inbox Heaven was the main feature, then this post is the popcorn. It shares Step Zero — an easy way to smite your email nasties that even Uncle Zeus could handle. Whether your daily inbox counter reads five or 500, this post will help you to simplify and enjoy the art of email.

I’ve recently jumped on a productivity bandwagon called Inbox Zero in an attempt to a) get more things done, b) get the right things done, and c) make myself a little better to work with for the poor folk who have to put up with me. Inbox Zero is a concept created by Merlin Mann who writes the productivity website 43 Folders.

I am retiring Outlook as my email client and moving entirely to GMail. I’ve used numerous clients over the years including Fidonet and the other BBS packages (my first email experiences), sendmail at the command line, emacs, cc:Mail, Lotus Notes, Thunderbird, Outlook Express, Outlook, and others I can’t remember.

I sat on a panel with productivity guru Merlin Mann today. We talked about a range of issues, from information overload to paperlessness to Getting Things Done and the Franklin-Covey method, all with reference to the life of lawyers. If you are not familiar with Merlin Mann, check out the video below, “Inbox Zero,” which changed my e-mail life.