I stumbled across this blog post from Angus Logan about drowning in email and managing that using a system called PIFEM. I've read Getting Things Done and thought it was interesting - unfortunately I was bored on a 7 hour bus journey from Alice Springs to Uluru while travelling around Australia, so I didn't really take that much of it in...oops!
The system works because of three great features in Outlook 2007 really:
My email was getting crazy as I was doing new fiscal year planning, running a large event, preparing for some customer travel and working on personal projects outside of work (getting married, managing a property, etc). So on the way back from a trip I worked my through the OneNote PIFEM guide and implemented it. In for a penny, in for a pound (use appropriate local currency)!
One month on... and my action items are down to 6 items and I have a complete grasp of my Inbox/overall tasks (implementing an offline GTD like tasks system).
Big THANKS to Angus and Ian for creating this and sharing it!
Go download the PIFEM OneNote package here