macgrl;86973 said:
Does anyone use a dedicated email account as a collection tool or for any other gtd / organistion purposes. Keeping it separate from your actual proper email account
I am wanting to discover if there is s gtd use for email. I have an iPhone and find that emailing myself ideas etc is a good way of Collecting things but would like it separate from my proper email account . What do you do?
Absolutely ! This was the first thing I did when I started reading the GTD book.
I have an iPhone, Macbook and MobileMe email. Within the email system, I have defined an alias email account for myself. I have an email folder called 'Collector'. Then I have a rule that moves all emails for that alias into my Collector folder.
I can collect everywhere by emailing myself from my iPhone. I do it while I'm on my computer. And, when I'm on a client site's systems with an email account they have provided, I email from their account to my collector without ever having to back away from the computer.
There are so many cool things I have found about this that I can't list them all.
Consider that I can snap a photo with my iPhone and then email it to my collector to process later.
When I receive an email, I may decide to move it to my collector for processing later.
I can paste in images, links to websites, attach documents, it's really flexible.
And of course it's completely synced across all my devices and backed up and searchable on them all too.
* Actually, my email system was my first list manager and covered every part of GTD, with folders for each Context, Someday-Maybe, Tickler, Reference, everything.