Many peo­ple have been ask­ing me how I keep my Gmail Inbox under con­trol. I get around 50 mails every day, but my inbox is always empty at the end of the day. I’ve talked about it many times but have not really gone into the details. Here are prin­ci­ples of inbox man­age­ment from David Silverman.

Things have become really tough and hec­tic lately at the office. The good thing about work­ing for my present com­pany is that there are a lot of new things to learn and new projects to do. It’s good for some­one like me who always wants some vari­ety in my life, but it can get pretty hec­tic. Burn out is a real pos­si­bil­ity if I go at my present pace for long peri­ods of time. This arti­cle from BNET is just what the doc­tor ordered for me at this point in my pro­fes­sional career.

The prob­lem with the net is that there’s so much to do in it that you’ve already spent sev­eral hours with­out notic­ing it. The inter­net is a black hole that can just suck you in. I’ve recently acquired a high speed broad­band in my unit and the first few days of hav­ing inter­net, I got totally sucked in. I was sleep­ing late, was a slave of the net and was doing inces­sant and dig­i­tal fid­dling, a term I got from Write to Done.

This one I got from iLounge, and was writ­ten by Jeremy Hor­witz, its Editor-in-Chief.

I got this from the Har­vard Busi­ness Blogs. I remem­ber send­ing this arti­cle to my office­mates sev­eral weeks ago to help all of us clear our desks and work­spaces. I’ve done the tips here myself and I’ve found it to be very help­ful in my own quest to have an unclut­tered work­space. I think the whole thing was trig­gered when I lost a very impor­tant per­sonal doc­u­ment among the impor­tant docs in my desk (I know, I am an anti-clutter freak, but I lose things sometimes–specially the ones which are out of mind and out of reach).