Scoble asks “how do you deal with a huge amount of mail”? Like him, I took David Allen's course at Microsoft around 18 months ago. It spread like wildfire around the VB team (I was a Lead PM there at the time) and Chris Dias (I think it was Chris) arranged for a session for all of the PMs and anyone else who wanted to attend.

Robert - just wanted to tell you to stick with it. 18 months later, and my inbox is still pretty much empty every night (some all day meeting days get to wait a bit <g>). I've also found it helps me get thru my blogroll - I'd love to hear how it does on one the size of yours...

One other tip - if you have a smartphone and use the tasks as they suggest - run, don't walk, and get Developer One's Power Tasks - I now have all my tasks by category on my phone. And I can quickly dial the numbers in my “Calls” list.