Like most people, I have quite a few email addresses spread across multiple domains. The email addresses are a mix of personal, business, and organizational. Obviously checking multiple email addresses multiple times a day is a huge time sink. Over the past few years I've developed a workflow that makes the most of the time I have to spend on email. What follows is the system I've devised that funnels all of my email through one gmail account (and don't worry - people who send email to/receive email from me can't see it from the outside), with daily local backups using Mail.app (OSX).
A couple weeks ago I drove up to UW-Madison to see Merlin Mann talk about Time & Attention. He was an amazing, really passionate speaker and you could tell that what he was talking about (the way you spend your time and attention) was important to him and that the conclusions he drew from his life were hard won. You can find a video of his talk (not the one I saw, but the same topic) below.
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