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To make your life easier, it's essential to keep the number of inboxes you have to a minimum. You want to keep it easy to take a note wherever you are at any time, but you always want to limit the number of places you need to check everyday. You'll probably want a physical, a portable and a digital inbox, so that you're able to capture information in every format. If there's an easy way to combine two inboxes in to one, do it and you'll only have half the number of places to check. 

After a huge declutter, here are the ones I'm left with:

**To-Do List** - I use an app called OmniFocus on my computer to manage my to-do list and it's my number one place for writing notes and capturing ideas. I have the F4 key on my keyboard set to pop up a window where I can type in any to-do's quickly. OmniFocus also syncs with my iPhone, so I don't need a separate note-taking app while I'm out and about and I have Siri set up so that when I ask her to remind me about something, she pops it in to my to-do list for me.

**Email** - My email inbox is the number one way that other people to get in touch with me and as I'm guaranteed to check it at least once a day, I've signed up for notifications for messages received via social media to be sent there too. I like to limit this to only the important notifications like direct messages, so that my inbox doesn't get too cluttery. While we were in America, we even used GoogleVoice to transcribe our voicemails and email them to us.

**Intray** - This is a wire inbox, with three shelves that lives on my desk. It's useful for collecting physical items including mail that comes through the letterbox, physical items needing action, post-it notes from Tom. When I get home, after being out and about, I'll empty anything I've picked up in my bag and any pages from my notebook that I've put ideas on, so that I can process them later.

**Notebook** - I still love pen and paper for brainstorming and sketching out ideas, so I've made an agreement with myself to only use one notebook at a time and when I'm done with a page, I'll rip it out and stick it in my inbox or scan it using an app called TurboScan on my iPhone.