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Try less choice for a productivity boost

Started by Christopher S. Penn · 10 months ago

I get a lot of email. When I came back from vacation this morning, I faced hundreds and hundreds of emails, from status reports to pitches and everything in between. How did I whittle this down to something manageable?

When I face a lot of email on the desktop client, there are a lot of choices [...]
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  • TimWalker

    10 months ago

    This is a terrific idea -- quickly cuts the pile down to size.

    The folks I know who have perpetually-overstuffed inboxes tend to get bogged down in thinking of Big Answers to everything, instead of getting things triaged quick-and-dirty.
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  • Daniel Johnson, Jr.

    10 months ago

    I recently printed out GMail's keyboard shortcuts to help me better wade through my email. It has helped tremendously.
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  • Max

    9 months ago

    Fully agree, do something with it, and move on.

    Brian Tracy (famous get what you want type guy) talks about only ever handling a piece of paper once. Do something with it once only. The same should apply to email.

    I always look an email and think, if I did nothing with this, would it matter. If the answer is no (it would not matter). I delete it.

    And short, curt answers are often better.

    Don't forget about not checking email 1000 times a day either, why not just check it once an hour or something like that.

    Like I could do that though. lol
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