Google Reader Stats, Redux
It’s time for an update on Google Reader. Since my last post on July 27th, I’ve added a number of new feeds, but overall the numbers of articles hasn’t really increased. I’ve also noted that I haven’t starred or shared any more items, even though the numbers of feeds and articles have increased. Based on that, I should be able to drop some feeds from the list, but still get the important posts - we’ll see what the next 60 days brings.
Day 1 of Inbox Zero
I finally got around to watching Merlin Mann of 43folders.com’s talk at Google about Inbox Zero late last night. I figured as it was the 1st of the month, a perfect time to start something like this - so I’ve done just that.
I basically declared Inbox bankruptcy, and renamed my current Inbox, and started with 0 messages. Throughout the day, I checked email less, but when I did, I processed every one until the my Inbox was back to Zero. Dick Kuslika over @ DailyDoseofExcel has written some VBA macros to help with this, known as OutlookTags (look for the link at the bottom of his post), which let you ‘Tag’ messages, which in this case means move them to a subfolder - in my case, Delegated, Replied, Defer or Done.
I certainly felt more productive, but then again, not looking at an Inbox with 1500 emails will lighten anyone’s spirits 
I’m going to continue this experiment for 2 weeks, and see how well I hold up.
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