Productive:
I'm giving Inbox Heaven a shot after reading about it on a website called Putting Things Off - PTO is a website I subscribe to via RSS, and sometimes helps me through those days when I don't really feel like doing anything. (Yes, before you ask, I have those days, too. I don't think Jon believes me when I say it, but ... I think it really happens to us all.)
Why Inbox Heaven? I have MANY email boxes. I have the AR one, my personal one, my personal-professional one (the one with my name instead of a goofy alphanumeric word as the handle), several different blog emails for the various blogging I do around the blogosphere, and a few random spam-catching emails for signing up for things, for ebay, and for craigslist. That's a lot of email-checking!
In the category of "Why didn't I think of that?", I came across the Inbox Heaven post and did a resounding, "YES!" in the middle of the office. This is exactly what I need. All my email boxes in ONE spot with quick keyboard tricks and folders to help me get through it. Naturally, GMail is picked as the basis of Inbox Heaven. Woot woot! My favorite company EVUH.
In any case, I invite y'all to try it with me. Inbox Heaven is a whole lotta free goodness -- my favorite price is free ;) If you're familiar with GMail, you shouldn't have a problem setting it up. Within the first half-day of using it myself, I was hooked!
Unproductive:
Last week, we have a few freak snow showers here in the Seattle area and MAN.... one day, Mike and I skipped out around two PM because it was just coming down insanely. Jeff tells us it stopped after about half an hour of us leaving (go fig - we're such pansies!), but these pictures are pretty neat. Mike snapped them with his iPhone as I was driving him home (I didn't want him to get stuck on his bus).
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(I realize that the pics are tiny - it can't be helped, unfortunately. Yey for iPhones!)
I'll have to check Inbox Heaven out. Thanks for the post. It's okay to sometimes not be productive. (That was an awkward sentence.)
Inbox Heaven sounds great for someone with multiple emails. I just have two: my professional and my personal. For anything I sign up for that might create SPAM, I use my personal email. My professional hasn't had much of one.
As for the freak snowstorm, I heard about it from several family members who live in the area. In fact, one day last week, my cousin in Seattle told me that the sun was out, but the temps were in the 30's. My brother told me yesterday that, while I was in the sunny upper 70's, it was snowing in Poulsbo. As my dad says, "Global warming, my butt!" He's decided that, if he ever comes face to face with Al Gore, he's going to go behind him and give him a swift kick to the backside.
Claire, first of all you are allowed an unproductive day now and a again, as long as your heart is in to your work no one ever doubts the final results. But that's not the reason for my visit... It simply is Happy St. Paddy's day my redhead blogger girl, have fun at A/R central Tuesday.
Claire, This sounds like a great idea. I have too many email addresses and get too much mail at each one. Will check it out... thanks a bunch! ...I saw the unusual but pretty snow showers you had in Seattle on TV.
Those look like the blizzards I have in SC!