I used to use the C drawer philosophy…(before email but still works)

Divide all your post daily into three piles.

Pile A you must respond to

Pile B you probably should respond to

Pile C can wait.

Then take pile B and divide into those that will chase for a response which are added to pile A and those that probably won’t which you add to pile C.

Pick up pile C and place in your “C drawer” and forget them. Do not throw away.

Deal with pile A only. You now have half the work.

If something in the C drawer becomes urgent you can retrieve it and move to pile A with the comment “I’ve got it here and am working on it”

Posted By: Ruttles on January 4th 2022 at 11:21:41

Message Thread

How many emails? (Return to work!)... 102 (General Chat) - Worthing Yellow, Jan 4, 10:44:09
- Simple solution (General Chat) - CB41, Jan 4, 11:23:55
- What is this concept “return to work”? (n/m) (General Chat) - Ruttles, Jan 4, 11:23:35
- Two... both sent yesterday. Company wide adherance to work free break... (General Chat) - Pixelman, Jan 4, 11:12:13
- Lightweight (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Jan 4, 11:01:53
- I've just moved 12 months of emails to a folder named 2021 (General Chat) - camcan, Jan 4, 10:52:32
  - ... (General Chat) - CB41, Jan 4, 11:24:25
  - I used to use the C drawer philosophy…(before email but still works) (General Chat) - Ruttles, Jan 4, 11:21:41
  - Just delete the lot apart from last year (General Chat) - Tombs, Jan 4, 11:01:55
    - My annual collection system works (General Chat) - camcan, Jan 4, 11:05:05
      - Im on gmail (General Chat) - Tombs, Jan 4, 11:10:57
        
        Ah yes - the world's search engine that won't search its own mail system (General Chat) - camcan, Jan 4, 11:25:02
- 1 (General Chat) - CWC, Jan 4, 10:49:39

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