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My brother Jan blogged about flipping the inbox as a great way to get oldest mails at the top, in turn as a way to weed out old mails, in turn as a way to reduce the number of looming mails in the inbox to zero. I did this too, and it works! Well, I didn’t actually “flip” it because Gmail always shows newest mails at the top. But I’m at zero; I only keep mails in the inbox for a day or less. New mails are either “done” right away when I check mail, or delegated to one of these folders:
* reply-now
* reply-later
* action-now
* action-later
where “now” means “the first time I have scheduled for doing mails” because I try to only be on mail at specific times, not all the time. That gives me peace in the meantime. (Perhaps I’ll turn off my cell phone next.)

As I’ve written before, I switched from my Psion to a PDA-phone. Such an all-in-one device is useful, but I had not realized one result of this: While I’m holding my phone to the ear, I can’t access my PDA! Try checking your calendar while on the phone… oops.

Of course, this is exactly why I have a Bluetooth headset, and when I use that, there’s no problem. Except that the PDA’s Bluetooth radio seems rather poor; the other party hears me through static noise much of the time. What good is a quality headset if the PDA can’t cope?