Erik and Leo talk to Jonathan Baillie Strong of ComDev Media about organizing ideas, talks, emails, and more.
Show Notes
Introduction
- A little about Jonathan Baillie Strong and how he met Leo
- Jonathan's best practices for attending a conference
- Jonathan's daily work
Inbox management
- How Jonathan got interested in inbox management
- His general system for inbox management and how it relates to GTD
- How often Jonathan grooms his inbox
- The most obvious benefits to his inbox management approach
- Where does Jonathan put his ideas
- His system for keeping them organized
- How often you should revisit ideas and explore them more deeply
- How to consider which ideas are worth pursuing further, which should get tossed, and which need to sit for a while longer
The One-Touch approach
- Basic concepts:
- Touch each email only once
- When you touch an email, do one of the following:
- Send it to your calendar
- Create a to-do task
- Make a note of the idea
- Put it in a Read It Later app
- Keeping email in your inbox is like looking at mail and putting it back in your mailbox
- How to decide where to send an idea
- Ideas to keep evolving your own idea management system
Jonathan's app recommendations
More apps and related links
Where to find Jonathan Baillie Strong
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