Inbox zero progress report

Back in January I blogged about the recurring Internet meme of achieving and maintaining Inbox Zero. I thought a couple of months later it would be useful to update you on my progress and what effect its had on my productivity. Using the technique described in my blog post I archived all of the mail in my inbox older than a couple of months. I was an early adopter of Gmail and had tens of thousands of emails in my inbox; hey, you never ever had to delete them, right! I then laboriously went through the remaining emails, deleting or archiving those I could, and actioning the ones I couldnt until my inbox was empty - yes, this did take a few hours.
   

   Using an app on my iPhone and iPad, called Mailbox, Ive found it easy and enjoyable to stay at Inbox Zero. First lets look at why Mailbox helps me maintain an empty inbox. With just a simple swipe and a click and can easily defer an email if I dont want to reply to it straight away. The defer actions (seen on the right) are reasonably self explanatory. What Mailbox does is moves emails from your inbox into folders that depending on your choice ensures that the mail will reappear in your inbox at the designated time and date.
   Ill use one of those irritating work emails that arrive in your inbox at 5:30pm on Friday afternoon to show what happens. The mail in question perhaps requires some thought or information obtained from work systems. I wont be able to physically deal with it until Monday anyway. So I defer the mail to "Next Week". Mailbox then  removes that email from my inbox and it will appear first thing Monday morning for me to action. Mail can also be easily deleted, archived and directed to specific folders (labels in Gmail) with simple gestures.
   Why then is this so helpful? Consider that friday afternoon work mail. Previously it would have been sitting in my inbox all weekend, nagging at me. Constantly reminding me it needed dealing to all weekend. Now I can totally forget about, relaxed in the certainty it will reappear next week when I can actually do something about it. This form of positive deferment is really very liberating. I action mail when I need to and defer those that I can to an appropriate time in the future: a few hours later, tomorrow, next week, in a month, a specific date, or someday (a deferment for mails that might be fun or interesting to deal with but have no priority). Maintaining inbox zero has, I think, made me more relaxed and productive.

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A year and a bit with Inbox Zero

In January 2014 I blogged about Inbox Zero and I have now been following that practice for a little over a year; so its time to give my appraisal. After following the techniques outlined in the various web posts on Inbox Zero and spending a little time on the remaining stubborn emails that really had to be actioned I achieved the nirvana of an empty Gmail inbox (perviously it held approx. 20,000 mails of which approx. 2,000 were unread).
    I now check my email at set times of the day: first thing in the morning, before lunch, mid afternoon and early evening. I apply the delete, delegate, respond, defer, and do mantra to each email and have maintained inbox zero successfully for just over a year now. Im never going back, I feel so much more relaxed and in command of my email. I use email not the other way round. For example if I receive an email from a work colleague on a Saturday I defer it until the following Monday (unless of course it really is urgent) - Im not at work so I shouldnt be dealing with work email at the weekend. Ive turned off the email notification and app badges on my iPhone and iPad. I use Unroll Me to manage email subscriptions and mailing lists, Mailbox (an excellent app) on my iOS devices, and a snooze script within Gmail. I strongly recommend you take the plunge and try Inbox Zero, you wont regret it.

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Star Zero Nested Pattern

Q. Write a C program to print the following star-zero nested pattern pyramid as:

*000*000*
0*00*00*0
00*0*0*00
000***000

Ans.

How to make above star-zero nested pattern:

*000*000*
0*00*00*0
00*0*0*00
000***000

In above star-zero nested pattern, there are 4 loops(each loop have different color), so before you making above pyramid, you should make first individual each loop, after making all loop, join them.
Thats done.

/*c program for star-zero nested pattern pyramid*/
#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{

 int num,n,r,c;
 printf("Enter number of rows : ");
 scanf("%d", &num);
 n=num;
 for(r=1; r<=num; r++,n--)
 {
   for(c=1; c<r; c++)
      printf("0");
   for(c=1; c<=n; c++)
   {
      if(c==1)
         printf("*");
      else
         printf("0");
   }
   printf("*");
   for(c=1; c<n; c++)
      printf("0");
   for(c=1; c<=r; c++)
   {
      if(c==1)
         printf("*");
      else
         printf("0");
   }
   printf("
");
 }
 getch();
 return 0;
}

/**************************************************************

The output of above program would be

***************************************************************/

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