<p> Well, my experiment with <a href="http://tendentious.org/2009/01/handling-email-differently.html">Inbox Zero</a> is going swimmingly (even if I am only five days in).</p> <p> I was spurred by comments to look at ways to try and use the same strategies for paper–which, I have to say, is an even more oppressive burden than email. We have a big filing cabinet full of stuff that&#39;s organized in rather idiosyncratic ways, and Anne&#39;s and my idiosyncracies don&#39;t always match up exactly to boot.</p>

<p> I&#39;ve started experimenting with <a href="http://www.43folders.com/izero">Inbox Zero</a> as a way to handle the email I get.</p> <p> The idea is simple enough–when you get an email, you deal with it in whatever way it needs to be dealt with–read and reply, delete, otherwise act upon it–and you get it out of your inbox.</p> <p> Oh, and all those emails currently in your inbox? Well, you can do what I did–browse through them and guess that they were all archiveable–or you can do the &#34;DMZ&#34; folder that they talk about above, or whatever.</p>