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Email is either the best invention ever, or the bane of your existence. Either way, this technology invented in the 1960 s is a necessary tool. How do you deal with all of the messages that find their way to your inbox? Google " Rethinking Email " for 7,940,000 articles on the subject. 651,000,000 Google results will tell you how to deal with " too much email ". Or, if you want to use the modern term, search for " inbox zero " to find 45,200,000 suggestions for getting your inbox down to nothing. GMaaces. uggests you prioritize: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5nt3gE9dGHQ Here is how I try to out-Outlook Outlook 2010. All incoming email goes to the Inbox (no automatic filtering). In a PST file called "Projects" I have a sub-folder for each project I'm working on. I use "Quick Steps" that mark the email as "Read" before moving it to the relevant sub-folder (this is for emails I recei...

It has been quite some time since my last blog post, mostly due to other extra-curricular projects I have going at the moment. It is difficult to find time to write blog posts when family commitments, work, writing a novel for pre-teens, practicing my Akai EWI and resuming an exercise routine I had laid fallow for about half a year, all seem to get in the way. Here's an interesting link to a website that describes how 25 famous people, such as Stephen King, Charles Darwin and Winston Churchill scheduled their day. The thing that strikes me about most of the daily routines described is that these people behaved as if the world revolved around them. Most of them even had a scheduled socializing hour - those friends who could not abide by it be damned! I find that one of the most important skills in my job as a Technical Writer is to manage my time properly. On any given day I could find myself working on anything from proofing 300 page hardware specifications through to creatin...

I was looking around at the electronic devices we use everyday. None of them are single-function, for example: My mobile phone is also my camera, diary, MP3 player, GPS device and multimedia device My camera is also a YouTube uploader, GPS tracker and a photo-editing device My desk phone at work is also an address book My MP3 player is also a radio and a storage device My e-book reader also surfs the web Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that HTC has developed a number of smart phones with Facebook deeply embedded into the interface and that there are dozens more planned for release in the near future. I recall the good old days when a phone was used to make phone calls. Now, every device we have needs to be able to do more than one thing. In fact, one of the hallmarks of a modern smart-phone is that it is "multitasking" - that it has the ability to run two or more applications simultaneously with the ability to switch between them. Older smart-phone operating syste...