An Introduction to Increasing Your Productivity in Gmail
  • Class Introduction
  • Understanding the Purpose of Email (And Why That's Important)
  • The Four Frameworks to Improve Our Email Productivity
Decreasing The Frequency of Checking and Processing Email
  • Understanding the High Costs of Interruption
  • Introducing the Concept of Batch Processing
  • Creating An Environment Conducive to Batch Process Successfully
  • [Demo] Adding Browser Bookmarks to Ancillary Services
  • BatchedInbox
  • Inbox Pause
  • Using Filters + Labels to Selectively Process Certain Messages
  • [Demo] of Filter + Label Creation
  • How to Handle Time Sensitive Emails While Still Batch Processing
  • The Alias Trick to Pre-empt Batching Marketing Communication
The Most Effective Way to Process Your Email
  • Introduction to Processing Your Email Effectively
  • The Difference Between Archive / Delete
  • [Demo] of the Reply, Archive, Delete, Defer Approach
  • Deferring Execution with Boomerang
  • An Alternate Method to Defer Execution
Decreasing the Amount of Mail You Receive
  • Introducing "Pruning"
  • Unroll.me
  • Identifying Pruning Opportunities with the "Optional" Label
  • Understanding the Email Ecosystem To Receive Less Mail
Contact Management
  • The Goal of Contact Management
  • The Most Important Gmail Contacts Setting
  • Making Contact Data Actionable With Brewster
  • Using Contactually to Stay in Touch with Important Contacts
Tools to Have More Effective Email Conversations
  • Newsle and Job Change Alerts
  • Undo Send
  • Rapportive
  • [Demo] of Rapportive and How to Find Someone's Email Address
  • Boomerang to Automate the FollowUp
Increase the Speed At Which You Process Your Email
  • The Magic of Canned Responses
  • Using Streak Snippets in Tandem With Canned Responses
  • [Demo] of Canned Responses and Streak
  • Searching For Messages Efficiently
Course Summary and Putting This Knowledge into Practice
  • Review of Decreasing the Frequency We Check Email
  • Review of How to Process Your Mail Efficiently
  • Review of How to Decrease Email Volume
  • Review of Effective Contact Management
  • Review of How to Have More Effective Conversations
  • Review of How to Increase Our Speed in Gmail
  • Next Steps: How to Build these Practices into Your Workflow
  • Gmail Productivity Worksheet
PDFs of All Lectures
  • PDF Copy of Lecture 1
  • PDF Copy of Lecture 2
  • PDF Copy of Lecture 3
  • PDF Copy of Lecture 4
  • PDF Copy of Lecture 5
  • PDF Copy of Lecture 6
  • PDF Copy of Lecture 7
  • PDF Copy of Lecture 8