turn off Gmail's inbox unread count

1 What will you do?	use the google labs feature that: "Hides the unread counts for inbox, labels, etc." http://mail.google.com/mail/#settings/labs . I'll evaluate whether it changes my inbox sniffing behavior. I'm still using the '"You click, it sticks" email rule' (http://edison.thinktrylearn.com/experiments/show/47) using my Mac Gmail desktop widget (http://matthewcornell.org/2009/08/control-your-email-addiction-checking-more-often.html), which continues to help a lot.
2 How will you test your idea and measure success?	o Will it help me check less often? o Will I notice that the counts are not there? o Will it change my widget use? Success: knowing whether it works or not.
3 How will you know you are done?	I'll give it a few weeks.
4 How will you enjoy the journey?	Satisfying my curiosity about the feature. Sharing it with my blog readers.

Created Oct 15, 2009 | Category Other
Tags Productivity, email, gmail, checking, addiction, unread counts

Matthew Cornell Haven't actually noticed much difference, mainly because I'm using the Mac dashboard setup I wrote about.

Oct 19, 2009

Matthew Cornell Marking as done. Learned: Unnecessary when using Mac "dashboard".

Oct 20, 2009