They say “Treat all email responses like SMS text messages, using a set number of letters per response. Since it’s too hard to count letters, we count sentences instead.”

Read more about it at http://www.dboost.com/thirdeye/2007/07/20/dboost-email/ and at http://five.sentenc.es

http://www.43folders.com/2007/07/25/merlins-inbox-zero-talk/

Rowan

- Sort by from/sender first
- Read your most important contact’s emails. If there are multiple under one subject, sort by subject – read the latest one and delete the rest. Go back to reading through by sender.
- Delete as many as you can based on the subject line, considering the “sender” of course (this is the fun part – deleting!). If it is really important and you don’t reply, people will contact you.
- Create a folder called “to read” and file as many as you can in there, read when you have more time (only high interest reading)
- For ones that require you to do something – act on them as you read so they don’t sit in your inbox. If you can’t act immediately, file or delete now – create a folder called “action” and file it there. Put time on your calendar to work through the “action” folder.
Reward yourself when you are done!