Posts Tagged ‘gmail’
You are 5 Minutes from Inbox Zero
Monday, January 11th, 2010
The Issue:
On a day to day basis, I find that I am most productive when I start by jotting down my priorities for the day. I often then try to budget how long each priority will take and make a schedule with it before responding email. I typically look at the number of emails I have, double it and that’s how long I estimate responding will take that morning. This is rarely accurate. The truth is, it tough to know how long clearing an inbox will take- until you go through each email.
Proposed Solution:
A Gmail labs/ plugin that tells you approximately how many minutes worth of emails you have to get to the coveted inbox zero. It may not be super accurate the first week or so, but overtime it could be. I’m not a developer, but I would guess it could consider many variables to do this, including:
- number of emails
- who they are from
- the length of the email
- the time or day you are responding
- emails you are cc’d on vs directly to you
…to name a few.
I imagine that it could eventually be able to even give you the number of minutes it has taken you to respond to an email in the past.
PS- Google people… if you’re reading this, I would also love the ability to ‘link’ to emails in from past conversations.. instead of copying & pasting large text blocks or forwarding separate emails.
PPS- I’m a gmail lover / user.. but I suppose this concept could work for any email platform.
