Years ago, someone phoned you and you weren't home, you missed the call and they had to try back -- now, the messages queue up in voice-mail. TV shows used to slip unwatched by unless you were there to suck them up them in real-time -- today, my TiVo has hours of mindless crap that it's faithfully holding for me. The Web originally required me to actually go out and do something as quaint as visit sites to read them -- these days, my feed reader pulls down megabytes of data -- a large portion of it, of course, cat pictures -- and piles it up, forever. Each of these swollen reservoirs of data silently mocks me with my inadequacy.Not everything is personal or entertainment-related. As use of data collaboration applications increases, we face online in-boxes, often at multiple sites. Contractors may access up to half a dozen collaboration sites, each for a different client.
I try to follow David Allen's GTD model, which includings limiting "collection baskets" or inboxes. How can we tie all of our data collection applications together into one major inbox? Through email, since most collaboration sites use email to notify users of changes?
