Re: Narrative for Finding and Reminding

[Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr>]

Le jeudi 12 mai 2011 à 21:23 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero a écrit :
> On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 03:50 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> 
> [Incoming email doesn't go into the reminders]
> > OK. Is there some place unread email *can* go?
> 
> Your mail program's Inbox, as always.
> 
> I want the Reminders area to be a) completely under your control; b) not
> a constant firehose.  It's not really a "collection area" in the
> parlance of Getting Things Done.  In the same parlance, think of the
> Reminders as an informal combination of a tickler file, @waiting-for,
> and a calendar.
I think he meant you may want to put an e-mail in the Reminders area,
just like you put files there. It's completely under your control, and
it will simply show the e-mail to remember you that you need to answer
it at some point.


Cheers