We all use email every day. It’s hard to imagine work and personal life pre-email technology. And, while it serves many functions, it also tends to multiply in numbers--literally, the number of accounts we create and manage over time. In this episode, the ProductivityCast team discusses how many email accounts we have, and the purpose of each email account in our productivity systems. Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening!
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In this Cast
Ray Sidney-Smith
Augusto Pinaud
Francis Wade
Art Gelwicks
Show Notes
Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.
Apple Mail
Newton
Outlook
Opera Mail
Gmail
Inbox by Gmail
Thunderbird
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personal world better to live a
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fulfilling productive life then you've
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productivity cast the weekly show about
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all things productivity here are your
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hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto
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Pinaud Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks
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Welcome back everybody to this episode of
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productivity cast this is episode zero
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two eight which is episode 28 how many
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email accounts do you have and why so
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email is possibly one of the most
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powerful communications technologies
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developed to date harness properly you
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can reach almost anyone in the working
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world easily and quickly and his email
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has grown in its uses so too has the
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number of email accounts each of us sort
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of has around us
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how many email accounts do you have why
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do you have them and are multiple email
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accounts making you more productive that
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is the topic of discussion today here on
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productivity cast your question is how
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many emails I have four how many emails
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bit of both today let's start it off
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accounts each of us does have and then
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we'll get into the whys of those things
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I think it's just important for us to to
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sort of square up and see what the group
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here today is kind of dealing with so
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I'll start off and I'll say that I have
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four email accounts and the the rest I
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Have you ever taken time off of work and returned to find yourself not being as productive as you’d like? Whether it’s for a couple days away to a longer hiatus, leaving work behind and then getting back to work can be challenging to your productivity and systems. In this episode, the ProductivityCast team discusses how to get back to work effectively.
Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening!
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In this Cast | Getting Back to Work
Ray Sidney-Smith
Augusto Pinaud
Francis Wade
Art Gelwicks
Show Notes | Getting Back to Work
Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.
Getting Things Done by David Allen
ProdPod, Episode 69 -- “Day Reset” and Episode 105 -- “The Power of Daily Routines”
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fulfilling productive life then you've
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productivity cast the weekly show about
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all things productivity here are your
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hosts ray Sydney Smith and Augusto
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pronounces weight and art Galax welcome
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back everybody to productivity cast the
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weekly show about all things personal
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productivity I'm ray Sydney Smith and
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I'm joined here with Augusto pinaud
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Frances weight and art Galax welcome
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gentlemen to the show thank you great to
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be here hey guys how's it going pretty
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well pretty well how's it going with you
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I've discovered that I've managed to do
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something unfortunate to my Chromebook
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there's a setting in most of these that
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allow you to change your trackpad to
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what's called Australian mode and I'm
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thinking oh that would be cool no it
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turns the trackpad upside down like the
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toilets right roll is now upside down
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now so my prod productivity is
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officially half today because every
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scroll is taking twice so yep yep I
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totally get that that's like the on max
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you can you can scroll two finger scroll
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order to push a piece of paper up and so
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In today's world, it's impossible to remember everything we can know. From passwords to tasks to calendar appointments and more, there are data out there that simply don't belong rolling around clouding up our focus. And, thankfully, we have the ability to externalize this information from retention to recall. In this cast, the ProductivityCast team looks at the concept of the external brain as a productivity enabler. Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening!
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In this Cast
Ray Sidney-Smith
Augusto Pinaud
Francis Wade
Art Gelwicks
Show Notes
Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.
Getting Things Done by David Allen
Evernote
OneNote
TheBrain
Workflowy
Google Drive
OneDrive
Amazon Cloud Drive
Dropbox
Box
Instapaper
Pocket
IFTTT
OTIXO
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personal world better to live a
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fulfilling productive life then you've
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productivity cast the weekly show about
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all things productivity here are your
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hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto
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Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks
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welcome back everybody to productivity
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cast the weekly show about all things
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personal productivity I'm Ray Sidney-
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Smith and I'm here with Augusto Pinaud
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Frances Wade and art Galax welcome to
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productivitycast gentlemen wait the
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year hey how you doing we're gonna be
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talking about today the idea of the
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external brain and I and I just wanted
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to disclaim this for anyone who might be
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listening to us I know a couple of our
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listeners are medical doctors and so for
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those of you who are medical
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professionals please know that we are
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not talking about the the the assistive
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devices and and so forth that are called
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external brains we're talking about the
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productivity focus concept of the
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external brain but what we're gonna do
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today in this episode is really define
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what an external brain is we're then
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gonna talk about why it's important in
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at least personal productivity for you
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to have an external brain once we are
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