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By default, most email programs sort email by most recent first, with unread messages shown in larger or bolder font. The result? Our attention is often hijacked by the latest thing arriving at our desks. But there’s no reason to chain yourself to the default sort order. Could sorting your email inbox a different way help preserve focus, improve personal organization and reduce stress?
Can we rely on search alone to find the information we need? After using Outlook folders to organize my inbox for many years, I switched to Google Apps and let its search features do the heavy lifting. Want to know how it worked out? Read about the results of my experiment in personal information management.
Ideally, we’d like to be able to gather all of our project materials together in one place, but most computer systems don’t let us do that easily. Here are a few tricks to help.
Your information management landscape is shattered by the Great Divide: the boundary between files and email.
Every day, knowledge workers sift through a mountain of email as tall as the Himalayas.