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Plus, my inbox is empty. This book talks about why you shouldn't keep action items (or reference material) in your inbox, and how to get it to empty. A good read!
[Marcie Robillard]
Guilty. I had taken steps to ameliorate this problem, but I'm still not where I'd like to be.
The trouble I have is that my email is used for action items, support requests, server notifications, ad nauseum. Clients/pointy-hairs generally expect a fairly quick response, so it requires me to check it constantly. I wrote an email handler using Craig's PopRouter in an attempt to handle much of this process autonomously. If they need a status update, they send me an email. If they need to add an action item, they send me an email. The requests are then emitted to an XML file which I annotate throughout the day. If they want a status update the handler simply emails them their request by applying an XSLT stylesheet to their request from the XML file.
I need more time to participate in mailing lists like DevelopMentor and ASPAdvice :-).