Quick thoughts

Use a mail application that allows you to schedule a time when you want an email to hit your in-box. Turn email into something that you receive when you want to receive it.

Clear my email inbox. Check my calendar. Clear my computer desktop. Clear my notes inbox. Choose my tasks for the week.

The goal of a good schedule is not to fill every minute of the day. The point is that you are prioritizing your values in your day. You’re

Famously, when Gmail came along, Google told us to stop trying to organize (and delete) our email and instead just rely on search to find what we’re looking for. Broadly I’d say that approach has worked well, and in the vast majority of cases, I err on the side of risking losing track of something later instead of spending the time to organize it n