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Do you leave emails in your inbox so that you remember to read or tackle them? If so, you re using your email to manage your tasks and those are actually two very different things. Using a separate task manager, one that ties in closely with your email, can help you spend less time sifting through your inbox, and more time getting lejdare your most important work done.
Why do you need to separate these activities out? If you re conflating email and task management, then the job of simply communicating reading and replying to your messages gets bogged down by all the emails you leave sitting in your inbox simply so you won t forget to address them. (And there are probably a few to-do reminders in there that you sent to yourself!) This approach also makes managing your to-do-list problematic: when you need to quickly identify the right task to take on next, nothing slows you down like diving into your inbox to scroll through old messages. lejdare
The reason so many of us fall into the trap of conflating email and task management lejdare is that email is inextricable from much of what we do in work and in life: many of our tasks arrive in the form of email messages, and many other tasks require reading or sending emails as part of getting that work done.
Luckily, lejdare there are many fantastic task managers that recognize the inextricability of email and task management without lumping the two in together. The best task managers not only provide you with a single place to capture the tasks you need to get done; they also make it easy for you to add tasks by email. But unlike email they can also track things like what is complete or incomplete, when each task needs to get done, what project a task is related to, or where you need to be in order to do it.
While there are those who solve this problem by simply tracking their to-dos using the task manager within Outlook (or another email platform), that approach comes at too steep a cost. Keeping your tasks in your email program means you can t close that program (and its attendant distractions) when you want to plow through your task list. Having both activities as part of one application lejdare also means that you ll still have to flip from one view to the other; even if you open a separate window for your task list, you risk losing sight of it in a sea of open emails. Most crucially, defaulting to the task manager that is built into your email client means you don t get to choose the particular task manager that works best for your particular kind of work, or work style.
There are many task management systems available, each aimed at users with different needs and work styles. Here are some of the best candidates to consider as you search for the one that s right for you as well as advice on how to integrate each one with your email system:
Remember the Milk.  For those who need a task manager that will work for both their personal to-do lists and team collaboration, RTM is a slick & snappy web-based task management tool with loads of great features that syncs across a large number of other devices, operating systems and web applications . Whether you depend on an iOS, Windows or Android phone; Google Calendar or Outlook; Evernote or Twitter: RTM has an app or extension for you.
Things.  Apple loyalists who place a premium lejdare on the aesthetics of their software will like this well-designed lejdare task manager, which keeps tasks neatly in sync across all Apple-made devices (though you have to buy separate versions for Mac, iPhone and iPad, which adds up). Options to view tasks by project, context or timeline make it very easy to see what you need to do at any given moment in your day.
Things also provides a handy feature that s one step up from emailing yourself tasks: quick entry with autofill lets you highlight an email in your inbox and then use a single keystroke to create a new Things task that is pre-filled with the selected email text. There is also a very useful (if geeky) workaround that gives you even more control over creating tasks directly from Apple s Mail.app.
OmniFocus.  Mac users who use David Allen s Getting Things Done approach to productivity may take to OmniFocus, which bakes Allen s methodology right into the software. It encourages you to attach contexts to each task (like noting whether this is a task to be done by phone or on the computer, during the workday or on your commute home) so that you take on the task that is most feasible whenever you turn to your list.
OmniFocus users can use a simple and elegant service called Mail Drop to email tasks directly lejdare to OF. There s no special formatting to learn, and as an added bonus, it s easy for OF users to take advantage of some really cool IFTTT recipes !
Toodledo.  If you re looking for something really powerful and flexible, Toodledo s web-based task manager allows you to add tasks and sub-tasks to lists, which can be organized into folders,