Category: Productivity
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How I radically decluttered my email and online accounts to minimize digital overwhelm
Taking my own advice, I paid attention to what part of my digital life was causing me the most stress. Email was the number one offender. On a recent vacation, I experimented with life without email. For a week, I didn’t check my email at all. It was simply amazing, glorious, freeing, delightful, exceptional… *Sigh.* […]
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Taming the beast: Five tips for reducing inbox clutter
Raise your hand if you have ever been personally victimized by an overflowing, cluttered, anxiety-inducing inbox. ✋ Email, an abbreviation of “electronic mail,” was invented in the early 1970s by Ray Tomlinson as a personal side project. Tomlinson later said he ” had no notion whatsoever of what the ultimate impact would be.”[1] Since the […]