Wait Until Email is a Day Old Before Replying
Alfredo Cramerotti has a good idea for managing e-mail,
Reply only to yesterday’s e-mails.
Set an ‘_action’ folder in your inbox; put them all the email you receive during today’s work, and don’t reply to any of them. Deal only with one day (yesterday) bunch of e-mails, and it becomes manageable, because it’s limited, and you know in advance it’s limited.
One of the hazards of e-mail communication is, people tend to think of it as an instant medium. There are those in my office who send me an e-mail message and, if I haven’t responded within ten minutes, walk the few steps from their office to ask if I received the message.
There is rarely anything sufficiently critical to require instant turnaround-time for messages. If it’s that important, pick up the phone.
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