(Seriously, snoozing an email until tomorrow is the best feeling ever.) Even if you don't get everything done, that's fine-your tasks will follow you around until you complete them or snooze them again. Anything you don't need to deal with right now, either mark it done or snooze it for later. Then, once you get everything in the system, process it all as fast as you can. You can email yourself things to do, or put them in your calendar, or take quick notes, or take a picture. Your first job is just to dump as much as you can into the system. It doesn't matter how you get stuff in the Google atmosphere, just get it in there. You send yourself drafts of emails to remember stuff, and instead of shaming you for it Google made those drafts much more useful. You already have one inbox to check, so why create more? Google's setup is smart precisely because it's designed to work all the places you already do. This is true, but there's a flipside: Your email inbox is a perfect place for a to-do list precisely because you're already spending so much time there. We all get too much email, and it's easy to let the incoming junk drown out the things that are actually important. One of the cardinal rules of online productivity is to separate your email from your to-do list.
