feedFive Fast Email Productivity Tips
No, these aren't from me, I'm still perfectly unproductive when it comes to email, though I've become better at it. I especially advise number one on the 43 Folders:
Shut off auto-check - Either turn off automatic checking completely, or set it to something reasonable, like every 20 minutes or so. If you?re doing anything with new email more than every few minutes, you might want to rethink your approach. I?m sure that some of you working in North Korean missile silos need real-time email updates, but I encourage the rest of you to consider ganging your email activity into focused (maybe even timed) activity every hour or three. Process, tag, respond to the urgent ones, then get the hell back to work.I just scaled mine back to 30 minutes. That's from 5, folks, so this represents a more severe change than one might imagine. If this works out, I might scale it back to an hour.
