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Touch It Once
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Last discussed Nov 10, 2026
A lean manufacturing rule applied to personal productivity: handle each item, such as an email, completely the first time you touch it.
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Jon McNeill · Nov 10, 2026
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Used for: Processing email and tasks efficiently
Praised: Efficiency; avoids revisiting the same items
vs: Borrowed from lean manufacturing
"One lean manufacturing technique rule is you touch it once. So that means if I open an email, I'm answering that. I've touched it. I only want to touch it once. I don't want to put it back as unread and then touch it again later."
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