Well, I guess I sort of do this, although not with email and only for certain very narrow purposes: I use a few tools (calendars, emails to myself that describe an action item in the subject, a notes app that displays on my phone’s home screen) to make sure I don’t forget things I want to do something with later. This is basically just part of my personalization of the Getting Things Done method, although what I do these days doesn’t look much like GTD as described in the books, but it’s carried out in the same spirit: make a decision about what to do now, and then either do it now, put it in a system you trust so you are sure to do it later, or drop it.
Certainly an email to myself every day could achieve the same thing since I could edit it every day to contain the current state of the information I want to store in these systems, although I imagine more could be done with such a generalized mechanism that I can’t do with my narrow way of using the tools I currently do.
Well, I guess I sort of do this, although not with email and only for certain very narrow purposes: I use a few tools (calendars, emails to myself that describe an action item in the subject, a notes app that displays on my phone’s home screen) to make sure I don’t forget things I want to do something with later. This is basically just part of my personalization of the Getting Things Done method, although what I do these days doesn’t look much like GTD as described in the books, but it’s carried out in the same spirit: make a decision about what to do now, and then either do it now, put it in a system you trust so you are sure to do it later, or drop it.
Certainly an email to myself every day could achieve the same thing since I could edit it every day to contain the current state of the information I want to store in these systems, although I imagine more could be done with such a generalized mechanism that I can’t do with my narrow way of using the tools I currently do.