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It does require that you use MacOS's Mail.app as a middle man. if I do not do this step, I end up forwarding the same email multiple times because I cannot remember if I've processed it or not.If the email account you use in Outlook is on Exchange, I figured out a pretty decent way of doing this.
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I process the Omnifocus inbox when I have time, already knowing these are actionable items and need to go into specific contexts.Īway from my Mac, I forward reference emails using my Evernote email address and my actionable tasks using the Omnifocus email service (in beta but works great!.)Īll of the original emails are then archived in Gmail and I hit archive immediately after forwarding the message. The applescript lets me choose which Evernote notebook the message goes into and even add tags. I do this extremely fast using apple scripts provided at and it's just Command + E for Evernote and Command + O for Omnifocus.
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I have a few different ways I process my email inbox, depending on whether I'm at home on my Mac or away and on my iPhone or iPad.Īt home, I go through each message and decide if it is "reference" or "actionable." If reference, I move it into Evernote and if actionable, I move it into Omnifocus. Each section is collapsible so I'm only viewing one at a time, and I love love love it. "Important and Unread" and "Unread" are my buckets for processing, but then I can have an inbox where I store only the read and processed Action emails. YMMV, of course.such is the nature of creating your system.ĮTA: I should add that the reason I say "inbox" is because I use Priority Inbox in gMail. Emails that are actually triggers for tasks that need to take place outside your email? Get those into the rest of your system.

So I would say, emails whose replies will take more than 2 minutes? Leave those in your email system. Sometimes I would look at my tag in my gMail and despair that so many of those actions weren't getting done.then I realized it was because their real context had absolutely nothing to do with email. For instance, an email from the library telling me that one of the books I'm using for my dissertation has been recalled needs to go on my list so that I remember to put the book in my bag before I wind up with a hefty fine. One big trap I accidentally fell into was leaving emails in the inbox that actually had non-email NAs. I do enter the next actions on a list (moleskine notebook) so I have all next actions in one place but find separating the next actions in my email into contexts very helpful to keep a focus when I'm working in a particular context ( in between meetings and busy, noisy times in office = computer late evenings and longer in disturbed periods = time, for example) this helps me stay on tasks related to my energy levels also, rather than face all next actions in one list.įew weeks late and many dollars short, but. I currently use my usual contexts of: quiet time (perverse I know as it's all at computer! But I have come to use this as easy replies and scheduling of appointments etc.) - very useful for a quick scan of items I've delegated or waiting for a response on and read and review - this builds up quickly though and can get out of hand with too much over commitment! I also move emails with next actions into context folders as this keeps the inbox as an inbox with only unprocessed items sitting in it. What is the most GTD way to do this? What does David Allen recommend? So sometimes if I get an email that requires a lot of work to do, I will put it in OmniFocus ("Review big proposal") and smaller emails I reply to ad hoc. Right now, I'm half way doing Option #1 and halfway doing Option#2, which makes life confusing. I think this might be a waste of valuable time.

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This forces me to decide on a next action for email, not to let it sit in my inbox as I avoid how to deal with it.

In Option #1, my email inbox goes down to zero every day.Having 2 inboxes and next action lists makes it hard to get a clear picture of what has to be done, which makes me lean towards Option #1.Option #2 is good because it's faster, and I don't have to copy & paste emails into my next actions list every day.

Option #1 is good because all of my next actions are in 1 place (OmniFocus).
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I use Gmail with Sparrow Mail on Mac OS X, and OmniFocus on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.I am wondering on the ideal way to process my emails.ġ) Put each email that has a next action into my next actions list, and move it out of my email inbox.Ģ) Use my email inbox as its own next actions list
