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Tips, Tricks and Essays on Email Overload and Taming the Beast that is Email

Archives for April 2006

Do I Have New Mail? Do I Have New Mail? Do I …

April 25, 2006 by Leo

One of the common frustrations I hear from people regarding email is the
feeling of being not only swamped, but “at the mercy” of their inbox. When
email arrives they feel they have to act on it right away, regardless of
whatever they’re doing.

Factoring in the “New Mail” sound of many email programs, it becomes
Pavlovian – we hear the sound and like a well trained puppy we go check our
email, interrupting whatever we were doing.

Who’s controlling who? Or rather, what’s controlling you?

At a conference a couple of years ago, a good friend made a simple
suggestion had improved his productivity dramatically. You almost
could feel the productivity of the room increase as others implemented his
oh-so-simple suggestion.

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Dealing With the Email You Get

The Golden Rule

April 17, 2006 by Leo

As I’ve said before, and probably will say again, understanding how your email
client processes message rules and then using that feature is perhaps the
single most effective thing you can do to help get your email under control.
Rules really are that powerful.

So today I’m going to look at creating just one rule, the one rule I
consider to be the most important rule you can have. So important that I’ll
call it The Golden Rule.

The popular Golden Rule goes something like this: “Do unto others as you
would have them do unto you.” Our golden rule isn’t really all that different,
at least in intent. It’s more along the lines of “Prioritize the people you
know.”

If I could have only one message rule, this would be it.

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Rules

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