{"id":2879,"date":"2014-06-21T16:28:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T23:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oneminutetodolist.com\/blog\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2014-06-21T16:28:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T23:28:54","slug":"why-i-dont-like-action-folders-in-e-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/why-i-dont-like-action-folders-in-e-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I don&#8217;t like Action folders in E-mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>June 21, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Occasionally when working with a client, I see they have created and are using an Action folder, or Needs Action folder or something like that. Basically, if they see an e-mail that has an action they cannot do now, they move it to that folder (instead of converting it to a real task).<\/p>\n<p>There are two main problems with this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>you now have these tasks split away from your main tasks list. And so now you lose all the advantages of having all tasks in one place.<\/li>\n<li>The other problem is that e-mail list views don&#8217;t have enough tools to use them as a task manager. You can&#8217;t date when you&#8217;ll do the action, and you don&#8217;t have multiple levels of priority.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So, I highly recommend you avoid &#8220;Action&#8221; folders in e-mail, and instead convert those e-mails to true tasks and file the e-mail away. Then work all your tasks off your task list.\u00a0 That&#8217;s how <a href=\"http:\/\/michaellinenberger.com\/1MTDvsMYN.html\">1MTD and MYN work<\/a>, and that&#8217;s a much better way to go.<\/p>\n<p>Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 21, 2014 Occasionally when working with a client, I see they have created and are using an Action folder, or Needs Action folder or something like that. Basically, if they see an e-mail that has an action they cannot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/why-i-dont-like-action-folders-in-e-mail\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2885,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}