Email is the bane of modern existence.
Here are some time-saving tips:
- Don't check email first thing in the morning
- Train people to call if it's a real emergency
- Train people to expect responses within 24 hours, never immediately answer anything
- Start checking email only at certain times of the day -- for example 11am and 4pm
- Eliminate all unnecessary email sources
- refine spam filtering
- highlight emails TO: only you
- declassify list emails, better yet send them straight to a subfolder
- unsubscribe from any list you haven't read in the last 2 weeks
- unsubscribe from "news" "special offers" etc. from websites that you signed up to but never use or need
Please add more hints for email control, links to articles about controlling your email, etc. here.
(Some hints from The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss)
