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Sometime late last year, I caught wind of an email productivity tool that was in development. That product, AwayFind promised to help people stop checking email.

Since then, I’ve gotten to know the founder and CEO, Jared Goralnick who has been approaching the product with a very head down, listening approach. I have used AwayFind for some months now, providing feedback and soliciting advice from Jared on the best ways to use the tool.

Before we got a little distracted by other things, we began a series on email ninjahood. Because email bandwidth continues to be a problem for many people with the ubiquity of Blackberries, smartphones and email anywhere you turn.

The recommendations I’m offering in this series work for me but they may not work for everyone. There are lots of productivity wizards out there able to recommend different approaches. Find what works for you and run with it.

I’m beginning a short series here that, on one hand, I hope to use to educate and on the other hand I hope to expose myself and the flaws I have in how I deal with email.

Email quite simply is a problem. Some people are blessed to have little email traffic so they squander that luxury by creating email by sending chain letters or otherwise. I however, have a much bigger, and much more deadly problem.

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I’ve been writing a computer help blog over at That Damn PC for the past few months. I’m enjoying it a lot as it gives me a chance to share some of the tips and tricks and experiences I have with computers with readers. TDPC doesn’t have a huge reader base yet. I’m hoping [...]

Today I recieved this email and I sit at a loss as to what I should do about it. They are waiting on me in Nigeria!
S.G.N CONSULT NIG LIMITED
LAGOS NIGERIA.
AGENTS AND IMPORTERS.
GENERAL CONTRACTOR.
DEAR SIR / MADAM,
FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH CONTRACT OF SUPPLIES OF MEDICAL AND SURGICAL
EQUIPMENTS.
WE ARE HEREBY, INFORMING YOU [...]