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Laurie Sumiye's avatar

Email tips are golden! (pun intended) Highly concur on efficacy of any kind of meditation; TM is one of the easiest to learn. I too credit David Lynch for my conversion, as well proselytizing mediation (read his book "Catching the Big Fish"). Thinking on the 3 people...

Ari Gold's avatar

yes, the three types of people in your collaborative world are worth understanding …

Andrew's avatar

Really neat system. I’m trying it. 2 questions:

Is “followups" a gmail linked folder… or do you pull them off server and only on Apple Mail computer?

How do you deal with a To Do List doc? All the work tasks to keep on radar… health stuff, home management, personal biz….

Ari Gold's avatar

—The follow up folder is definitely a synced folder. you want access to the folder on phone, computer, version of your email. You want all to be in sync

— I personally don’t use a to-do list, my inbox, my follow up folder, my drafts, and my screenshots essentially become my to-do list. Sometimes things get overwhelming and I make a to-do list on my notes app and try to complete and delete as quickly as i can

Tony Hartman's avatar

This was great

Steven B.'s avatar

LOVE ❤️ THIS!

Barry Stone's avatar

Thanks for your generous and sage advice. Some of which I shall apply to my rather dillapidated brush.

Chris Perry's avatar

AG: This is awesome. What app do you like for doing non-browser gmail? I'm jonesing for the 'one click file this into this specific folder' functionality and the app I just downloaded doesn't seem to have it. :(

Ari Gold's avatar

I use the native Mac mail app. I'm sure there are others too. But anyway on the basic mac mail program, for the iPhone and the Desktop versions, you can into Settings -> Mailbox Behaviors to program Archive and Delete buttons to do what you want. You might need to create different Z Archive folders for each computer (Gmail can be buggy with this) but once it's operating, it works.

Chris Perry's avatar

Thank you!

Laura Lipson's avatar

Wow! Sweep the cobblestones.

Patricia Ziegler's avatar

Brilliant! Grazie!

Courtney Romano's avatar

Ari, this is gold and I truly am not intending to pun. Saving it, implementing it, and thank you for it!!

Ari Gold's avatar

now you need to catalog your puns

Tom Violett's avatar

You've convinced me this is a system I should try. It will alleviate the constant pressure of putting my emails in categories and knowing I'll never do it. A way to escape this pergatory. I make sure when putting someone's contact info in my phone to note where and when I met them and why we clicked. Then I label them to a folder so I'm only looking at a few dozen contacts. For example I have a FilmStack folder. The meditation I'll need to not think about.

Ari Gold's avatar

Try it all Tom, if you are up for it. Everyone works differently but I do think a lot of people burn their brains on bad systems, and this system works (for me anyway)