{"id":4098,"date":"2010-08-31T08:29:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T16:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtdtimes.com\/?p=4098"},"modified":"2014-10-21T13:59:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T20:59:26","slug":"is-gmails-priority-inbox-anti-gtd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/2010\/08\/is-gmails-priority-inbox-anti-gtd\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Gmail&#8217;s Priority Inbox anti-GTD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gtdtimes\/2010\/08\/gmailpriority.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4099\" title=\"gmailpriority\" src=\"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gtdtimes\/2010\/08\/gmailpriority-300x62.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"43\" \/><\/a>Google announced <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/help\/priority-inbox.html\" target=\"_blank\">Priority Inbox<\/a> today and the emails started flooding in asking, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t this anti-GTD?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Google  <\/p>\n<p> says that Priority Inbox &#8220;automatically identifies your important email and separates it out from everything else, so you can focus on what really matters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, what does David Allen say about this kind of tool and the questions about something that sorts your inbox being &#8220;anti-GTD?&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Having email sorting\/filtering would be anti-GTD if you use it to avoid decision-making, but not if it&#8217;s just for evaluating what kind of attention to put on something. Using colors for certain people&#8217;s emails in Lotus Notes (as I do) would also be &#8220;anti-GTD&#8221; if you never dealt with the non-colored ones. We&#8217;re not officially endorsing or recommending this. Just saying it&#8217;s something that you can make work. &#8211; David Allen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced Priority Inbox today and the emails started flooding in asking, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t this anti-GTD?&#8221; Google says that Priority Inbox &#8220;automatically identifies your important email and separates it out from everything else, so you can focus on what really matters.&#8221; So, what does David Allen say about this kind of tool and the questions about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/2010\/08\/is-gmails-priority-inbox-anti-gtd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Gmail&#8217;s Priority Inbox 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