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Quote the sender's email in chunks
- Only use enough quotations to establish the context.
- Your reply should come below it.
- When possible, cut and reformat the quoted text.
- Get tasks out of your email and into a task manager.
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Determine What The Sender Needs From You Asap
Ask yourself:
- What’s the meaning and the value of the message?
- What action does this message require of me?
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Tips To Reduce Frequent Email Checks
- Check it at 11am and 4pm to make sure it isn’t the first thing you do (and get sucked into) and also so you have a clear inbox by the end of your day.
- If your to-do list is already overflowing, add email checking times to your calendar.
- Close your email software...
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Suggested Email Structure
- Greeting
- Pleasantry
- How you got their details, call back and reason for email
- Body Topic: Situation, Benefit, Call to Action
- Closing line
- Signature
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Habits For Efficient Email Processing
- Do – If it’s actionable, execute the task and archive.
- Delegate – Forward it on.
- Defer – Decide to do it later (snooze it until a concrete time).
- Delete – If possible, do it to reduce your inbox.
- File – If necessary, tag it a...
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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.
- Structur...
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The Zen Master's Guide to Email Productivity | Process Street | Checklist, Workflow and SOP Software
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Always appreciate the time you get, because you never know how much longer it`ll last.
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4 Methods For Email Management On A Phone
- When you are walking or driving, use apps like Talkler to read your email to you and be able to reply with voice messages or delete emails.
- Trying to read email while doing other things often leads to interruptions and rereads. Avoid that by quickly moving messag...
Managing email: determine the priority
Once you've got the flow of email reduced to messages that matter, it's time to clear the non-urgent out of your inbox.
- Reply if a very quick reply is possible, like Thanks or Great or On it.
'Eating that Frog' in short
- Define your goals and write them down.
- Break those goals down into tasks.
- Break those tasks down into the smallest possible subtasks.
- Prioritize your tasks, and delete/delegate tasks you don't need to do.
- Schedule time on your calendar every single day, ideall...
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