The Art of Less Doing – Ari Meisel

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Essential Vs. Optional

Essential Vs. Optional

Just because I’m always focusing on trimming the fat and pairing things down to their most basic and efficient elements does not mean I do not enjoy the optional things in life. As a matter of fact, everything I talk [...]

January 21, 2012 Posts
Quick Tip: The Single Most Important GMail Filter

Quick Tip: The Single Most Important GMail Filter

If you only have time to create one GMail filter, create this one. Find any email the HAS the word Unsubscribe and DOESN’T HAVE the words FW or RE and put it in a folder labeled “Optional” Any email that [...]

December 19, 2011 Posts
13 Tech Tools for a Paper-Free Life - Guest Post on Mashable.com

13 Tech Tools for a Paper-Free Life – Guest Post on Mashable.com

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December 4, 2011 Announcements
How to Deal With Email Overload - Guest Post on Mashable.com

How to Deal With Email Overload – Guest Post on Mashable.com

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October 13, 2011 Announcements
How To Create Gmail Filters

How To Create Gmail Filters

See my screen cast below to learn how to create filters in Gmail. Once you do, my number one reccomendation is to create a filter for the word “unsubscribe” and have that routed to a separate folder, in my case [...]

September 12, 2011 Posts
This Is How We Do It: The Deskless Office

This Is How We Do It: The Deskless Office

Why? I didn’t need a desk and prefered to have more space and less clutter. In a previous post I discuss the concept of setting limits in order to force organization. This is sort of an attempt at that. As I [...]

February 3, 2011 Posts
This Is How We Do It: The "Optional" Folder

This Is How We Do It: The “Optional” Folder

The Pledge I’ve been playing around with an extraordinarily simple email organization method. I have one folder labeled “Optional” for…you guessed it, everything that doesn’t require an immediate response or any response at all. The Turn I want to preface [...]

November 10, 2010 Posts
Fundamentals of Less Doing: Organization

Fundamentals of Less Doing: Organization

Fundamentals of Less Doing is a series of articles detailing how we think about productivity from a conceptual level. If you are new to Less Doing, the Fundamentals series is a great place to start. It should go without saying [...]

October 11, 2010 Fundamentals
This Is How We Do It: Carry As Little As Possible Without Leaving Anything Behind

This Is How We Do It: Carry As Little As Possible Without Leaving Anything Behind

Staying organized means knowing where things are at all times and having easy access to them. When we’re talking about keeping your own body organized while at home or travelling, that means carrying the bare essentials in a way that [...]

October 8, 2010 Posts
Stop Wasting Time: Document and Photo Vanquishing

Stop Wasting Time: Document and Photo Vanquishing

It goes without saying that the Less Doing lifestyle requires that you be as paperless as possible. There have been tons of articles discussing how to go paperless and there are services to help you do it that will definitely [...]

September 27, 2010 Posts