Comments on: Inbox Hundreds http://uncorked.org/medley/2010/01/inbox-hundreds/ Since 1999 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:54:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: PeggySu http://uncorked.org/medley/2010/01/inbox-hundreds/comment-page-1/#comment-2846 PeggySu Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:01:03 +0000 http://uncorked.org/medley/?p=1253#comment-2846 There's something charming about looking at or cooking from paper recipes, whether old handwritten or typewritered ones or those simply torn from the newspaper or NYT Sunday Mag. Even GTD would allow you to put them in manila folders rather than scan them. You can do this in an hour or so. First get say 20 sheets of paper and write categories in big letters along the bottom: Appetizers, Desserts, Salad, Soup, Thanksgiving, whatever. Lay out the sheets of paper in alphabetical order on the kitchen counter or table or both. Grab a handful of the recipes and start sorting by placing them on top of the appropriate sheet of paper. If you can't finish in the time you have then just stack the papers and recipes together. Once you are done sorting replace the sheets of paper with appropriately-labeled manila folders. You can label them all something like Recipes: Appetizers so they are all filed together. There’s something charming about looking at or cooking from paper recipes, whether old handwritten or typewritered ones or those simply torn from the newspaper or NYT Sunday Mag. Even GTD would allow you to put them in manila folders rather than scan them. You can do this in an hour or so. First get say 20 sheets of paper and write categories in big letters along the bottom: Appetizers, Desserts, Salad, Soup, Thanksgiving, whatever. Lay out the sheets of paper in alphabetical order on the kitchen counter or table or both. Grab a handful of the recipes and start sorting by placing them on top of the appropriate sheet of paper. If you can’t finish in the time you have then just stack the papers and recipes together. Once you are done sorting replace the sheets of paper with appropriately-labeled manila folders. You can label them all something like Recipes: Appetizers so they are all filed together.

]]> By: genehack http://uncorked.org/medley/2010/01/inbox-hundreds/comment-page-1/#comment-2844 genehack Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:16:50 +0000 http://uncorked.org/medley/?p=1253#comment-2844 I'm in about the same place as you -- not as much mail piled up, but tons of other things and in-process projects that are blocked on other things that are blocked on having a wife and two kids and a fairly interesting engaging job and the occasional desire to just sit on the couch like a lump for a while. Sometimes, though, I also get a wild hair up to <em>do</em> something -- and the important thing is to just roll with that, and not impede the impulse by over-thinking it -- just jump in, find an open loop or three, and <b>CRUSH THEM</b>. (This is more to help me remember this than because I think you don't already know it... 8^) ) I’m in about the same place as you — not as much mail piled up, but tons of other things and in-process projects that are blocked on other things that are blocked on having a wife and two kids and a fairly interesting engaging job and the occasional desire to just sit on the couch like a lump for a while. Sometimes, though, I also get a wild hair up to do something — and the important thing is to just roll with that, and not impede the impulse by over-thinking it — just jump in, find an open loop or three, and CRUSH THEM.

(This is more to help me remember this than because I think you don’t already know it… 8^) )

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