Processing
Processing determines as quickly as possible what, if anything, to do with each piece (in ascending order of urgency and importance):
- delete it
- archive it
- defer it for (a) later response
- generate an action from it
- respond to it immediately (if it—literally—will take less than 2 minutes or is so Earth-shattering that it just can’t wait)
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