If your inbox is as jammed as the 405 at rush hour, 43 Folders has five tips that can help you better manage the crush of information.
Here’s our two favorites:
- Pick off easy ones – If you can retire an email with a 1-2 line response (under 2 minutes; pref. 30 seconds), do it now. Remember: this is about action, not about cogitating and filing. Get it off your plate, and get back to work.
- Write less – Stop imagining that all your emails need to be epic literature; get better at just keeping the conversation moving by responding quickly and with short actions in the reply. Ask for more information, pose a question, or just say “I don’t know.” Stop trying to be Victor Hugo, and just smack it over the net…
Via Waxy.org
