Archives for 6 May 2006

OpenSubject is an public project to make email correspondence more efficient through the use of simple 3 letter codes. Instead of using your project name as a subject for every message you sent you enter a code which says something about the contents or tha message and the desired action to be taken by the receiver. Example Subject: NRN: Project X Information Means: NO Reply Needed: this message contains information about Project X With their own list of three letter codes they give some good hints to start with this. Big issue: How to remember the codes?

The blog “Creating Passionate Users” has an excellent write-up on why you will never keep up with all your reading and how you can help yourself reducing the amount of information you want or need to absorb. One of the best

Don’t file it. Don’t store it. What you don’t have piling up you can’t feel guilty about. Some people put little height limits on their “to read” stack. (OK, when it gets as high as that drawer, I must throw out the oldest 50%…)

I am also interested in the GetAbstract service. I will definitely try this one out the coming days…