forest signals

In his productivity bible Getting Things Done, David Allen says that you should minimize the number of collection buckets for all the stuff in your life. (Collection buckets include a paper in-basket, email inbox, voicemail box, feed reader—anywhere new “stuff” channels into your life.)

You should have as many in-baskets as you need and as few as you can get by with… If you have too many collection zones, you won’t be able to process them easily or consistently.

A few different…