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Bit literacy clips, Gootodo comments
Jun 14, 2006
Some bit literacy-related clips.
From Emails more damaging than cannabis - vnunet.com:
Researchers at the University of London Institute of Psychiatry have found that the constant distractions of email and texting are more harmful to performance than cannabis.
Those distracted by incoming email, phone calls and text messages saw a 10-point fall in their IQ, more than twice that found in studies of the impact of smoking cannabis, according to the researchers.
Contrast that with recent comments I've gotten from people who are using the bit literacy method from the Managing Incoming E-mail report or Gootodo.com.
Mark, I just wanted to let you know that yesterday I managed to get my inbox empty. It's been a six month long process. I had spent the last two months hovering around 10 emails in my inbox, unable to let go of the idea of my inbox as the urgent end of my todo list.
How does it feel?
* Strange - it's never been like that before so takes some getting used to.
* Freeing - I open Outlook and sometimes there's this big white space. With nothing to distract me I can focus on the things I want to focus on.
* Efficient - I certainly feel as though I can respond to email more efficiently. Again, with nothing to distract me from new email, I can focus on responding to that mail more effectively.
...and...
Your paper on managing your inbox may have changed my life. It's so simple but I'm back in charge again! I printed it out for my whole team.
...and...
I think the concept of emptying my inbox has been extreemly valuable for me to pick-up and gootodo helped me do that. Thank you for that!!
...and...
I just wanted to tell you how thrilled I am to have found Gootodo. I have forwarded it on to several people, as well. I get tons of emails and have been using my inbox as my scheduler and to-do list, for all intents and purposes. Your site has freed me from that and I am working much more productively. Thank you so very much. I love it!
...and...
before gootodo i relied on a paper notebook, palm desktop on my treo and palm desktop on my mac and email to manage my todo list. i'd write things in a notebook or jot a memo in my treo at meetings or i'd add a to-do in the palm desktop to-do file in my treo or on my mac. it meant things were never synchronized between paper and email and palm and things were only available in a couple places (palm desktop on treo and mac) -- with gootodo i can access my todo list from anywhere (i almost always have web access via pda or computer)
my todo's are usually short and fit in the summary in gootodo but i also appreciate the description which is easy to access if i have a lot of detail. with palm desktop that sort of description was always hidden in some sort of attached note or memo that required extra clicks into a separate window to find.
Try it for yourself: Gootodo.com.
