Wes details "Breakout" — his email management strategy for overwhelmed creatives and Scott and Wes chat about how they have their prettier setup.

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The Show Notes!

01:00

• Wes' notes on the Breakout Email Management System

02:00

• Do you like minisode or snackisode?
• Any other ideas for names for these short episodes?

04:00

• Email is often busywork

04:30

• You likely have a decision problem

06:00

• Kill it at the source! How do you stop email from getting to you in the first place?

08:00

• Your inbox is not the world's TODO list
• Process it when you get it
• Getting Things Done

09:30

• Filter! Filter! Filter!

10:30

• Germans sure do get a lot of vacation time!

13:00

• Expansions
• Using Robots for empathy
• Text Expander
• aText

15:30

• Dictation is great!

17:30

• Video responses

18:30

• Defer

19:19

• Batch Processing Email
• Send + Archive

20:31

• Stop emailing yourself

24:00

• Listener Question: How do you use Prettier?

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