DISQUS

Croeso i Gymru! (Welcome to Wales)

I grew up in Cardiff but haven't been back to visit for many years.

Over the years I've unwittingly (at first, anyway) perplexed quite a few Americans by insisting that I'm not from England, but from Wales.

I don't run into many references to Cardiff in the media that I read, so it's a nice surprise to see it come up, especially in a tech blog!

You're not suffering from email bankruptcy.

Your inbox is empty and you successfully triage your messages, but you don't seem to have the time to follow up and do the associated actions.

Solution: be stricter (more realistic?) with your triage. As you know, one of the benefits of GTD is that it stops you overcommitting, so the solution is to get back on the GTD wagon. We all fall off now and then -- even David Allen falls off his own wagon occasionally, but it's easy to dust yourself down and get right back on again.

Pick a few products that you don't like and blast them.

People would then think twice about sending you unsolicited products.

Thanks for your encouragement, and I like your novel interpretation of "Z-list"!

There's another angle to this debate, which has nothing to do with whether software should be patentable: if you invent something and do not patent it, not only can your competitors use it (duh!) but they will patent it and try to prevent you from using your own invention! Then you are forced to fork out $plenty on proving that it was your invention in the first place.

I'm a GTD enthusiast too. I tried a few products to help move the email mountain until I realized that my biggest problem was moving them out of the inbox into one of my 600+ folders. Outlook's Move to Folder user interface was just too cumbersome for deeply nested folders, and drag-and-drop through screenfuls of folders took far too long, so I rolled my own tool: SpeedFiler for Outlook. It started off as MeWare, fast became FriendWare and is now commercially available. http://www.speedfiler.com