{"id":426,"date":"2019-05-31T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/?p=426"},"modified":"2019-05-31T08:03:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T12:03:09","slug":"inbox-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/31\/inbox-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Inbox Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a slow day &#8211; Friday after a bank holiday (Ascension), which most people here take off from work (including myself).<\/p>\n<p>Time to appreciate my inbox. My empty inbox, that is.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since I came across <a href=\"https:\/\/whatis.techtarget.com\/definition\/inbox-zero\">Inbox Zero<\/a>, I tried to stick to it, most of the time. According to its inventor, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Merlin_Mann\">Merlin Mann<\/a>, it&#8217;s not so much about reducing the number of Emails in your inbox, but about reducing the time you&#8217;re thinking about the things in your inbox. From personal experience over many years of working I can fully and wholeheartedly agree &#8211; an empty inbox makes your day much less stressful!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve settled on Outlook, Tasks, and OneNote to manage my work, but it&#8217;s not the tooling that makes the difference, it&#8217;s the mindset.<\/p>\n<p>Give it a try &#8211; you won&#8217;t regret it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-05-31-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"2019-05-31 (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-05-31-2_thumb.png\" alt=\"2019-05-31 (2)\" width=\"675\" height=\"519\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Screenshot of an empty inbox, Microsoft Office 365)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a slow day &#8211; Friday after a bank holiday (Ascension), which most people here take off from work (including myself). Time to appreciate my inbox. My empty inbox, that is. Ever since I came across Inbox Zero, I tried to stick to it, most of the time. According to its inventor, Merlin Mann, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/31\/inbox-zero\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Inbox Zero<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloudnative","category-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXpA-6S","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}