Efficient Email

Here's a useful article about efficient email strategies. It's pitched towards business-folks, but I think the ideas apply just as well to consumer email addicts.
Checking email too often is a significant productivity drain. Email by its very nature isn’t usually urgent unless it’s your entire job, such as answering customer support emails. Here are some tips to prevent email from taking too big a chunk out of your day...


Posted by dustin on March 12, 2005 with category tags of

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I like this quote from the other email article linked to on this page:

Give your reader full context at the start of your message.

Too many messages forwarded to you start with an answer—"Yes! I agree. Apples are definitely the answer"—without offering context . . . Oops! We just noticed there are ten messages about apples. One of the others says "Apples are definitely not the answer." And another says, "Didn't you get my message about apples?" . . .

It's very, very difficult to get to the core of the issue.


Wah-wah.
   comment by goodladd (#144) on March 13, 2005

   

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