Taming your email with Gmail and Remember The Milk

As an organization freak, I love reading about how other people manage their email (I’m on a never-ending quest to attain Inbox Zero, so I need all the advice I can get). This month, it was awesome to see that two fantastic bloggers have shared how they’re using Remember The Milk for Gmail to help tame their email.

Judi Sohn writes about maintaining Inbox Zero using Gmail and RTM over at Web Worker Daily:

If I have more than 30 unread messages at any one time, I break into a cold sweat. So as a result, until recently I couldn’t imagine maintaining my maniacal level of control over my inboxes without a desktop email client’s notifications, rules & plug-ins.

Thanks to Google Apps and some simple tricks & tips that are only possible with Gmail in the browser, I’m master of my domain (email, that is) in my browser window. I have never felt more organized with my email across four different accounts.

While Stowe Boyd shares his experiences managing email with RTM for Gmail in this guest post on Unclutterer:

Since adopting the RTM Gmail integration, I have found my approach to email has changed. I now proceed through email, responding to those that I can immediately, and deferring others by assigning an RTM task. I create a descriptive ‘next action to take’ as the task description, set a deadline for the action, and apply a few descriptive tags, like ‘travel’ or ‘billing’. After wading through new email, I then turn my attention to things that I have to accomplish today, which are (at least in part) listed in the RTM widget.

Hopefully I can learn a thing or two – judging by their screenshots, both Stowe and Judi are managing their email much more successfully than I am. :)