Five fast email productivity tips
43 Folders has been getting lots of blogjuice for good reason. Here is a nice reminder from him that coincides with things I've said before. Five fast email productivity tips
There’s been a lot of great discussions about email productivity going around on sites I enjoy, so I thought I’d throw in five no-brainers that I’ve seen help a lot of folks.
- Shut off auto-check (as in automatic send/receive)
- Pick off easy ones
- Write less
- Cheat (use something to make writing faster, such as a template or automatic text substitution, like ActiveWords)
- Be honest (get rid of it, if you really aren't going to respond to it)
And don't forget the basics: Do, Delegate, Date activate and Delete. (I first heard of these specific terms through a Primer Michaels course on time management. It is a model from Priority Management International, Inc.)
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Correct. I summarized too quickly, assuming you have been reading my blog since its inception :-). The "do" task encompasses, responding to the mail and filing it for later uses. Or in many cases, "do" simply mean read and file away.
The goal of these steps is to get mail out of my inbox, so it doesn't stare me in the face and make me think I am not getting anything done.
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Your post sounds good -- except..."(get rid of it, if you really aren't going to respond to it)" and "Do, Delegate, Date activate and Delete" -- there are reasons not to delete 1) if you have a good desktop search like Copernic -- leave it in place so it's there if you want it. Mailbox sizes are pretty huge now and I've deleted things to have the sender show up in my office and ask me to respond! aack. 2) if there are legal requirements that you maintain records