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Escape From Email Hell – Chapter 4

10 09 07 - 13:00 - Bookmark this post

This is a guestblog by Craig Huggart. I blog on Getting Things Done and work-life balance at Tech Rest.

Ed's first visit from the Email Angel was about 5 months in the past. Things were going so much better it was hard for him to even remember how stressed out he had been over email.

Lately, though he noticed a disturbing pattern: he was forgetting to check his folders and as a result, sometimes he would forget to do things. It wasn't as bad as it had been but it still bothered him. It was irritating and embarrassing to get a call about a meeting 10 minutes after it started. Even worse was the time he forgot about a party his wife had told him about and scheduled a golf match with a friend instead.

He was thinking about these things as he drifted off to sleep that night.

For the rest of this chapter and other chapters in the book, click The Book .

Craig, great to see how you write about email in this way. Perhaps a children’s novel is up next? Writing about GTD for kids would be great for my daughter I think :-)
Frank Meeuwsen - 14 09 07 - 13:10

I didn’t know email’s could go into folders. But wow. I would not be happy if that happened to me.
Jenny - 28 09 07 - 19:59