Tips For Efficient Email Management
- Unsubscribe from or filter away the stuff you never read.
- Disable email push notifications on your phone.
- Check emails twice per day to limit the time it takes to check and switch tasks while batch-processing your emails.
- Structure your emails in blocks to allow for automation of parts of it.
- Use canned responses for repeated answers.
- Archive nonurgent messages to reduce your inbox.
- Quote the sender’s email in chunks, replying to each section to avoid confusion.
- Separate your to-do list from your inbox.
- Use a pattern like ‘verb the noun with the object’ in your subject lines to make it more efficient for others to read it.
- Clear your emails by the end of the day so things won’t accumulate for the next one.
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