Comments on: Getting Things Done With “Delete”

By: Dave Eaton

Dave Eaton — Tue, 09 May 2006 17:00:16 +0000

Deleting/discarding low-value items items effectively increases the value of the remaining items. It increases the likelihood that you will remember that you have the items, that you know where they are, and that you know what they are for.

By: mndedhia

mndedhia — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:20:29 +0000

My delete key on In box for deleting the message is not working

By: Len

Len — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:23:03 +0000

Hi
on my desk top above the start button you have a find now button how do you delete the things you found in the box find now

By: chiffon

chiffon — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:29:10 +0000

how to delete a tool bar the whole thing because i didnt want

By: Tom McKay

Tom McKay — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:46:43 +0000

Great advice, Keith. It’s very liberating!

I also just started testing a new tool (free – my favorite price) that’s helping me unclutter my inbox and hard drive: Evernote. You can toss just about anything (images, text, scribbles on a tablet PC), slap a category on them and find them again easily. I blogged about it today, in fact.

By: melissa

melissa — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 21:51:12 +0000

delite

By: mrnoisy

mrnoisy — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 10:53:12 +0000

I’m going to delete this article.

By: lifehack.org

lifehack.org — Thu, 19 May 2005 13:04:44 +0000

Getting Things Done with “Delete”

Sometimes it is so hard to delete stuff. However sometimes it maybe the only ways to get things done.
To-Done has written an article called Getting Things Done with “Delete” which built around this theme. To be simple and easier to organ…

By: Wendy

Wendy — Wed, 18 May 2005 19:07:44 +0000

I once visited a ‘life coach’ just to see what that was like. I’m kind of the opposite of most folks, in that I’m truly lazy. I don’t procrastinate, per se, but I definitely don’t get around to doing everything on my to do list. There are times when I am EXTREMELY unmotivated and apathetic.

So, I explained this to the ‘life coach’, and do you know what her advice was? Whenever I’m feeling apathetic, and guilty about that apathy, I should eat some protein. The protein would do something to get my ass in gear and start getting things done.

I tried it once or twice. I’m not sure it worked, but I think anything like that can psych you out a little. Like people who snap a rubber band on their wrist when they start to go off on something. I do know that I’m fat enough already, so I don’t need another excuse to eat.

Anyway, thought I’d pass it along in the spirit of the posting.

By: quirkyalone

quirkyalone — Mon, 16 May 2005 15:15:54 +0000

Tao of Delete is a good thing, but not with emails. I am now using gmail, and I realized that I do not need to delete at all. I just archive all posts, so they do not show up in inbox, and I am done. It is much easier – I don’t need to decide all the time if I will need particular mail. I store everything, without slowing down my work with email.

I think in the near future someone will invent similar workflow for local files, so we will not need to worry about whether they should be deleted or which folder should they belong to.