{"id":410,"date":"2007-10-03T23:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2007\/10\/03\/guerrilla-office-tactics\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:50","slug":"guerrilla-office-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2007\/10\/03\/guerrilla-office-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"Guerrilla Office Tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Productivity guru Merlin Mann over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.43folders.com\/2007\/10\/01\/field-report-guerilla-office-tactics\">43 Folders<\/a> has started a new thread on his blog about ways people are finding to cut down on info overload.<\/p>\n<p>PR people might want to take note of some of these. For example:<\/p>\n<p>Merlin suggests creating a filter for your mail that will automatically collect every piece of mail with the string &#8220;For immediate release&#8221; anywhere in the text. <\/p>\n<p>Zip! There go all those press releases.<\/p>\n<p>Another tip is one he calls the &#8220;Bozo filter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Filter into a \u201cholding\u201d folder every email message for which you are not the sole \u201cTO:\u201d recipient. This filter includes lists, \u201cCC:\u201ds, \u201cBCC:\u201ds, and any number of other bulk-y messages that were never destined for you alone. Then you check that folder once a day, and create compensating rules as needed.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s got a whack of good ideas already and he&#8217;s soliciting more from his readers.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got some ideas, or just want to see some of the other examples, head on over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.43folders.com\/2007\/10\/01\/field-report-guerilla-office-tactics\">43 Folders<\/a>. There&#8217;s plenty there to help you clean up your own problems with the daily (down)load.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Productivity guru Merlin Mann over at 43 Folders has started a new thread on his blog about ways people are finding to cut down on info overload. PR people might want to take note of some of these. For example: Merlin suggests creating a filter for your mail that will automatically collect every piece of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-6C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}