The Battle of Email Overload Continues…
May 29, 2008Women Entrepreneur posted Escaping E-mail Overload this week, taking a look at some ways of managing the onslaught of emails commonly awaiting all of us in our inboxes. This gets interesting when Mark Hurst from Bit Literacy challenges Tim Ferris’s 4 Hour Work Week and David Allen’s Getting Things Done. Ferris rebuked with some interesting points on his blog. Much to his credit, he raises the point that often these systems work in conjunction with each other, helping different people at different parts of their productivity journey. All of this has got me thinking about just how personal organization and productivity systems are. No two file cabinets are alike.
So where in the world of all this do you lie? Are you a Bit Literacy champ, do you only work 4 hours a week, or do you prefer to get things done with lists? No matter the answer, we sure do hope Jott helps with it all (I’m sorry… I just couldn’t resist!)
You might like to read my response to Tim’s post:
http://goodexperience.com/2008/05/timothy-ferriss-is-th.php
-Mark Hurst
Comment by Mark Hurst — May 30, 2008 @ 5:47 am
Thanks Mark, going to read it right now…
Comment by kate — May 30, 2008 @ 8:46 am
We agree with the Tim Ferris view of email. In fact, email is on he way out, like telegrams. To slow and time consuming. Tweetblogs are the future. Email out Tweeting in. OK, you don’t know what a tweet is. One Email message covers one person. One Tweet a billion people. JohnG aka myTmedia
Comment by JohnG — June 1, 2008 @ 1:54 am
For me, email is neither slow nor time consuming. I have no idea what Tim Ferris thinks, and don’t intend to find out. There isn’t any such thing as a four hour work week, I’m sure it’s just a market hype gimmick. I’m as open minded as the next guy but sorry, I have an information diet that Iike just fine.
I like Jott a lot, and so does the dog; I can write blog entries and emails while giving her a walk. Not bad!
Comment by George Girton — June 11, 2008 @ 4:47 pm