Jan Klinger

One of them is https://klinger.io who has been lobbying and working on this EU Inc topic for a while if you follow him on Linkedin.

https://klinger.io/ usually write stuff down that i keep repeating in discussions - eg management advice: https://klinger.io/posts/managing-people-%F0%9F%A4%AF - eg my angel-investment decision making process: https://klinger.io/posts/how-i-make-investment-decisions - eg simple productivity-hack: https://klinger.io/posts/q-codes

Good outline. Another great resource is Andreas Klinger's Crash Course https://klinger.io/post/180989912140/managing-remote-teams-a-crash-cou…

Yes, it should take too long, but also there is sometimes too fanaticism about the Lean Startup theory. Too often people get stuck in the loop of testing and testing without really following a clear entrepreneurial idea. The risk is to end up building a nicely market-fitting product, but not a disruptive/visionary product. Andreas Klinger described this amazingly well in his blog post "Why Lean Startup Sucks For Startups"... he wrote right after the Leas Startup Conference of 2013 :) http://klinger.io/post/69794653694/why-lean-startup-sucks-for-startups

People like to diss email as a "todo list that other people can add items to", but really, this holds for just about all communication channels. So for me, what worked is to only use one channel (in my case, my work gmail) as a valid TODO-inbox. Everything else doesn't count. This means that if someone WhatsApps me something that requires a TODO, I ask them to email me a reminder. In my particular social situation, this tends to work. If they don't want to do this, it's probably not important enough I keep my email itself clean by using Andreas Klinger's classic gmail-TODO-setup (https://klinger.io/posts/dont-drown-in-email-how-to-use-gmail-more-eff… That article is 9 years old now but it still works perfectly, despite Google's reputation for killing niche apps/features. Then, I enable email notifications in key apps (eg Slack and GitHub), most of which I archive right away, but occasionally mark as a TODO using the gmail-TODO-setup. This means I never have a secondary "unread message as TODO items" list in slack, or similar in GitHub. It's very nice. Finally, I use "Simple Gmail Notes" (https://bart.solutions/simple-gmail-notes/) to add little notes to myself about what a TODO-email is about. eg "review this" or "delegate to someone", etc.

inbox-0 or not, it is still very helpful to use the multiple inbox feature in gmail [0], I've separated mine into "inbox", "follow up", "upcoming events", "to read". this way the screen is utilized better and i can actually see agenda.. also archive them after moving so that inbox only has items that still need attention.. Most people probably don't realize the cognitive effort they waste on re-parsing the same messages in inbox over and over and over again. I also tried to engineer a sort of self-destruction messages. The kind that are relevant for a day or few but don't need to be kept. I added the rules to mark those as "disposable" and once in a while i just nuke them from my inbox. This is still a manual step so it would be nice if something like a self destructive message label was invented in case el Goog is watching this [0] http://klinger.io/post/71640845938/dont-drown-in-email-how-to-use-gmai…

You may be interested in this chart from an earlier post today https://klinger.io/images/eu-acc-work-times-1024w.png TLDR: America is about the median hours worked.

The guide below got me from 2,000 unreads to inbox zero in less than 30 minutes. The key is to archive pretty much everything older than a month or two since it likely wasn’t getting done anyways. You can still search archives if you do remember something later. Like the other poster said - take it easy. I have thousands of bookmarks too, and I know one of these days I’ll write a script to get it all exported, but until then, I’m going to continue appending. https://klinger.io/posts/dont-drown-in-email-how-to-use-gmail-more-eff…

(Not parent author) I believe what makes HEY compelling to some email users is that it is opinionated about what email workflow should be like and fits the bill for many. While a similar way of using email can be achieved in other mail clients [0] the simplicity of having such features by default it's by itself a good reason. Some features that are non-trivial to emulate in other email clients are: - Grouping emails with different subjects etc to the same - Adding private notes is some emails - Clipping specific parts - Some UI specific features (Focus & Reply etc.) [0] https://klinger.io/post/71640845938/dont-drown-in-email-how-to-use-gma…

If there are people out there who are well invested into Gmail, then here's an alternative (https://klinger.io/post/71640845938/dont-drown-in-email-how-to-use-gma… that does not require a separate client application. The initial concept is focused on desktop usage, but with a small modification it can be adapted to mobile-based working as well.

Has anyone managed to replicate the linked Gmail guide[1] on Thunderbird? I currently am able to reply+archive[2] some emails, but the todo emails hang around in my inbox till I complete the task and then archive them. Ideally, I would like to not see the ToDo emails till I am ready to look at them. [1] https://klinger.io/post/71640845938/dont-drown-in-email-how-to-use-gma… [2] Ctrl+R, compose reply, Ctrl+Enter to send, A to archive message.

Does anyone use this Gmail GTD setup with `Multiple inboxes`? http://klinger.io/post/71640845938/dont-drown-in-email-how-to-use-gmai…

Use of Tags/Labels on mobile/web is something that's keeping me on Gmail, or I'd be willing to look elsewhere. An example of how GTD is possible through tags and labels: http://klinger.io/post/71640845938/dont-drown-in-email-how-to-use-gmai…

I'm excited by superhuman (https://superhuman.com). Alas I haven't got an invite. Also, dunno if they're going to support my style of email use out of the box (I'm strict adherent to the Andreas Klinger style: http://klinger.io/post/71640845938/dont-drown-in-email-how-to-use-gmai…

This Gmail workflow that I use religiously does the tagging but lacks PlainEmail's distraction-free interface to take the actions. I'm currently using keyboard shorts to accomplish this: L (to label), then P (for priority)/W (for waiting) or just Star (for reference). http://klinger.io/post/71640845938/dont-drown-in-email-how-to-use-gmai…

I use Gmail, set up in a similar way to this: http://klinger.io/post/71640845938/dont-drown-in-email-how-to-use-gmai… You can use a second calendar in place of GTD's 'tickler' file. Just hide the calendar, and set the default reminder to 'email'. That way, you receive an email when you need to action a tickler, and can then assign that email to 'next action' or whatever.

Agree, but I like having everything in one place. I don't get a lot of email, so that may change, but I have a filter and separate inbox[1] set up for stuff I read, including RSS. [1]http://klinger.io/post/71640845938/dont-drown-in-email-how-to-use-gmai…

isn't it redundant to use different mediums just for noting the importance? seems not efficient, especially when there are many types of IM. it's much better to have everything in one place i'm not prioritizing, right now it's not possible, maybe except for this solution: http://klinger.io/post/71640845938/dont-drown-in-email-how-to-use-gmai… i'm just saying THAT is the proper solution, i'm not saying it's possible...