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IMPORTANT: I don\u2019t decide the best reminder would be to put the message back around the pigeon\u2019s leg, stick a flag to the pigeon and then put the pigeon in with all the other pigeons in the coop. If I did this, the pigeon would be pushed further out of view with every new pigeon arriving until it was squashed at the back or the bottom and soon forgotten. I would need to go looking for all the pigeons with flags on again, catch them again, and read all the messages again and decide again what I need to do about all the things. This is a waste of time and energy and risks me not finding this particular pigeon again before my boss chases me for a progress report \u2013 with another pigeon in my inbox\/trap!!<\/p>\n
The only pigeons I want in my \u2018inbox\u2019 are the ones that have just arrived with new messages on their leg which I still need to clarify. They are in the right place. I don\u2019t even need them to have signs on saying they are \u2018unread\u2019; I know they are unread because they are in my \u2018inbox\u2019. Once they are \u2018read\u2019 and clarified, the reminders of any projects and next actions should be organised in my GTD system and the pigeons moved appropriately.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t flag your carrier pigeons and please don\u2019t keep old pigeons in your inbox.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Those of us who work with our email inboxes regularly \u2018at zero\u2019 are aware of the many benefits this brings. It is therefore a surprise, when trying to encourage others to do the same, that their first response is often along the lines of \u201cI don\u2019t care that I have 10,000 unread emails\u201d or \u201ckeeping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":85856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_eb_attr":"","gtp_columnspro_styling":"{}","gtp_paragraph_styling":"{}","gtp_heading_styling":"{}","gtp_spacer_styling":"{}","gtp_video_styling":"{}","gtp_group_styling":"{}","gtp_cover_styling":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[309,310,3423],"tags":[47,174,51,53,3424,58,3425],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.next-action.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.next-action.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.next-action.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.next-action.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.next-action.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.next-action.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.next-action.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.next-action.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.next-action.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.next-action.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85855"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.next-action.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=85855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}