If you work in a job where you are constantly receiving and answering emails, it can become difficult to maintain and your messages will begin to take over your inbox. Below are 10 articles that will help you better manage your email.
- Managing Email to GTD – The book Getting Things Done, by David Allen (Book and CD), has been a cornerstone for the GTD movement that’s sweeping the web and the workplace.”
- Managing Email Volume – The Great American Timesuck – “Managing email is certainly a challenge and I am not sure software is the way to go.”
- Simple strategies to clear email clutter: From Gina Trapani of Lifehacker – “Just like physical clutter creates negative psychic weight, so does clutter in the digital spaces we work in every day “like our email inboxes.”
- Five fast email productivity tips – “There’s been a lot of great discussions about email productivity going around on sites I enjoy, so I thought I’d throw in five no-brainers that I’ve seen help a lot of folks.”
- Efficient Email – “Checking email too often is a significant productivity drain.”
- Don’t Use Email for Conversations – “A big pet peeve of mine is people who try to use their email account to have conversations.”
- How I keep my Gmail tidy and neat – “Since I got my Macbook Pro in March ‘07, I have been POPing [1] my Gmail off of the server and using Gmail itself as my online mail archive.”
- Got the email blues? Only three things you can do: Get fewer, Get faster, Get control – “Email is a huge problem for most of us, and there are tons of ideas for dealing with it.”
- Getting To Done: Communication – A guide to email triage – “Ever wonder what causes that sinking feeling of dread just before you open your e-mail client?”
- Tips for Mastering E-mail Overload – “Being at or near the the top of your organization, everyone wants a piece of you. So they send you e-mail. It makes you feel important. Don’t you love it? Really?”
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February 12th, 2009 @ 1:49 pm
Thanks for the helpful list, and for the link!