Manage Your Email
- Focus on what's genuinely important in a day and do that, before checking your email.
- Check the email in time blocks, like once every 3 to 4 hours.
- Discard all impersonal unnecessary emails.
- Briefly answer messages that require an instant response.
- Use subject line protocols to speed up communication and for easy searching.
- Keep only alive messages (hot email) in your inbox.
- Allocate time daily or weekly to deal with complex replies.
- Ask people to remove you from their distribution lists that are no longer appropriate.
- Do not reply to or write an email when you are unsettled or upset.
- Do not use e-mail for overtly sensitive communication.
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