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David Allen has recently created a   Getting Things Done Blackberry Setup Guide, including 'getting your email to zero'. How is that possible??? I've just used a quiet Sunday morning to sort out my own email and despite being a bit tedious to start with it also feels liberating now that my inbox is down to a single screen (and I'm determined to see if it's really possible to go to zero).

It's so easy to hoard emails. If there is the slimmest of slim chances that we might need an email for reference we hang on to it, often just letting it languish in our inbox so that every time we do need to action an email it takes forever to find it. It's boring to file emails properly so they build up into ridiculous digital piles, cluttering up our inbox, taking up too much room and distracting us from current, relevant communication.

Since I went freelance I've been lucky that I don't get those huge, never-ending round robin emails where a 5-way conversation takes place over email rather than in person. But just think, if you do have those, what a lovely feeling to just delete the lot of them except the most recent.

Here's a few tips I've picked up from expert authors over the years and which I try to put into practice... and when I do life does feel a whole lot simpler... click here for more