The Inbox
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The Inbox
Your inbox is where everything lands first. Voice memo transcribed: inbox. Article you want to read later: inbox. Random idea at 2am: inbox. The rule is capture now, process later.
The inbox only works if you process it regularly. Weekly is usually enough. Your processing ritual is simple:
- Open
01 Inbox - Look at each note
- Decide: Is this a project task? A resource? Something to archive? Delete? File it and move on.
Claude makes this faster. Try: “Help me process my inbox.” Claude will read each note and suggest where it belongs. You confirm or redirect. A full inbox of a dozen notes takes five minutes instead of twenty.
The key insight: the inbox isn’t where notes live. It’s where they land before being routed somewhere useful. If notes are piling up in your inbox and staying there, you’ve skipped the processing step. Get back to it weekly.