Turn your Gmail into a tool of time management

If you use Google's mailbox and are interested in seeing that all have time, try to set up several new features and make him his assistant. In Google Labs enable the option "additional folders" and "superstars".

Then in the main options to adjust the superstars as follows:

• Those that are shown have the following meanings (from left to right):
• Red Ball - an urgent matter, look at the request has: red-bang (or l: ^ ss_cr);
• Yellow ball - it can wait, look at the request has: yellow-bang (or l: ^ ss_cy);
• Red star - is included in the calendar, look at the request has: red-star (or l: ^ ss_sr);
• Orange arrows - is charged with looking at the request has: orange-guillemet;
• Purple question mark - requires completing the study or looking for on-demand has: purple-question (or l: ^ ss_cp);
• Purple asterisk - long term business, look at the request has: purple-star (or l: ^ ss_sp);
• A green check mark - is satisfied, on search request has: green-check (or l: ^ ss_cg);
• Green star - archive, search on demand has: green-star (or l: ^ ss_sg);
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• Blue information icon - archived by general reference has: blue-info (or l: ^ ss_cb).

Letters from the "red ball" should not hang in the long box. If you are going to do something, do it - if not, get rid of the junk in your mailbox.

Use labels to sort letters in content, design and source, adding the prefix M / P / or and / respectively.

Examples content:

• C / Date
• C / Computer
• C / trips
• C / House
• C / Private

Examples of projects:

• P / Company Website
• P / Spring vacation
• N / skateboarding Championship

Examples of sources:

• And / Jones, Steve, lawyer
• And / Joe Thomas

Switch superstars to arrange the letters in the correct order. Marking them with labels, you'll know exactly what works and how to manage your projects.

Keep regular searches using Gmail bookmarklet generator (Gmail bookmarklet generator). Use the same queries, you get buttons that you can drag to your toolbar. Let's say you want to see deeds, assigned helpers (under the orange arrow) - go to the site and vvoditel: ^ ss_co.

The button will display the header (Title), so I come up with a name that then it will be easy to find everything. Then click on the button "Generate". And simply drag the button to the toolbar.

Turn Gmail Into Your Ultimate GTD Inbox [Adam Pash]