Thinking about productivity and its tools * Your email is what...
Des Traynor@destraynor
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Oct 28, 2026
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Thinking about productivity and its tools
* Your email is what *others* think you should work on.
* Your Todo list is what *you* think you should work on.
* Your calendar is (usually) what you *actually* work on.
How much do they overlap in your world?
* Your email is what *others* think you should work on.
* Your Todo list is what *you* think you should work on.
* Your calendar is (usually) what you *actually* work on.
How much do they overlap in your world?
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It's interesting to think about how people hack this by doing things like:
- emailing yourself a todo
- calendaring time to "do" email.
- scheduling a meeting where the first 5 minutes is blocked for everyone to read an email
- emailing yourself a todo
- calendaring time to "do" email.
- scheduling a meeting where the first 5 minutes is blocked for everyone to read an email
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I built a workflow to enact this "calendar your emails" approach using @coda_hq and their packs feature. So easy & powerful. (and I've yet to really scratch the surface)
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