Category : Email Productivity
Email Usage Survey - are you overloaded?
We are currently conducting a market research on email usage at work. Thank you for filling our this very short survey. (Jan 12, 2012)
All I want for Christmas is a break from email
With the holidays around the corner and most of us taking time off, you will certainly have a full inbox waiting for you when you get back. Set some rules before you take your leave, or better yet, start looking for a plug-in that can help you and others in your organization save time when you return from the holidays. (Dec 22, 2011)
Email Overload: Check your email later in the day
Renowned productivity guru Tony Schwartz suggests checking your email later in the day, so that you are the one dictating your productivity agenda and not someone else. (Aug 09, 2011)
How to separate your personal and professional lives online
My colleague, Mike Petsalis, recently blogged about keeping private and business email separate, but what about everything else you do online? Here are some tips to help you protect your privacy while using the Internet. If you have any other tips or suggestions, please feel free to send them. (Jul 28, 2011)
Reading and Writing!
Do you actually read your emails carefully? Be honest. Most of us just skim through them and details can get lost along the way. Skimming through an email can cause you to miss important details about more than meetings. (Jul 21, 2011)
Are you afraid of your inbox?
Do you hear the Jaws theme in your head when you’re about to check your email? Da dum, Da dum, Da dum... It’s ok - you’re not alone. A lot of people are freaking out over their email these days because they can’t keep up. (Jul 12, 2011)
Personal and Business email: separate but equal?
Do you try to separate your personal from your business email? Does it bug you when friends use your work email address to send you information that should fall in the personal area? Are you paranoid about employers knowing too much about your personal life through info contained in your work email? (Jul 05, 2011)
A great vacation email auto-response
A great email auto-response is yet another opportunity to be distinctive. (Jun 30, 2011)
Email Productivity Tips #2: Manage your meeting requests and responses
It's fairly easy to set up Outlook so that your meeting requests don't ask for a response. It's also simple to filter responses so that only meeting rejections get to your inbox. (Jun 08, 2011)
Email Productivity: Organized Structure or Searchable Pile?
How we approach the organization of our email says a lot about our personality. Some of us prefer to have a very organized and controlled structure, while others don't care at all about structure as long as we can find a particular message when we need it. Where do you fall on that continuum? (May 20, 2011)
Inbox Zero: My Approach
Mike Petsalis wrote about how he achieved Inbox Zero in his 6-part Email Overload series, but I find that these few easy steps work best for me. Here's my approach: Processing Rules, Processing Messages, How to Handle Different Types of Email. (May 12, 2011)
Email Overload: The vacation return - dream or nightmare? Part 6
The email mountain to climb after a vacation return has always been a source of dread for tanned and rested vacationers, often removing the benefit of the vacation within a few hours of email frustration. Or worse, the dread forces you to check your email during vacation. Does it really have to be like that? (Apr 07, 2011)
Email Productivity Tips #1: Delay your email sending to get a second chance
How many times has this happened to you? You furiously type an email, enter the names of the recipients, click send, then about 20 seconds later you remember that it should have gone to one more person, and that you forgot to add one important point. Well, fear not, Outlook and most email clients offer a way to delay sending and give you a second chance. (Mar 28, 2011)
Email Overload: Maintaining Inbox Zero - Part 5
It turns out that maintaining Inbox Zero is easier than you might think. The hard part is getting to it. Staying there however gets easier as you go. (Mar 22, 2011)
Email Overload: Cleaning up old emails, is it worth it? Part 4
The next step in my on-going battle with Email Overload is to go through older email and determine whether it is worth keeping. To some this exercise would appear of little value, but I thought it would at least help me figure out what value I actually attach to email and help me better understand how to manage it. (Mar 17, 2011)
Email Overload: Did I actually get to Inbox Zero? Part 3
Success! Turns out getting to Zero Inbox is not that hard after all, and staying there is even easier. Of course, is it worth doing at all? That it still to be determined for me. (Feb 23, 2011)
Windows Search with Windows 7 and Outlook 2007
There are many things I hate when it comes to email. Even more so when it comes to Outlook. Searching, and in particular, finding what I'm looking for is one these. This little how to will show you how to use Windows Search to quickly and efficiently search your Outlook PST or OST files (emails, calendar items, tasks, contacts). (Feb 09, 2011)
Email Overload: How are we doing so far? Part 2
An update on my attempt to get to a cleaner inbox and reduce the amount of email that I keep. Progress, but not there yet. (Feb 02, 2011)
The Race to Inbox Zero
Recently in our office there has been much discussion and competition about reaching that ever-elusive Inbox Zero. In fact, our CEO even recently blogged about the four easy steps to clearing your inbox and is proud to have reached ‘Inbox Zero’ and maintaining it. (Feb 01, 2011)
How Windows Search in Windows 7 flattened my email life
From XP to Windows 7 now, search has been getting progressively better on the Microsoft desktop. It is now getting really effective, quick and accurate to do searches for emails with Windows Desktop Search. (Jan 25, 2011)
Email Overload: Clear your inbox in a few easy steps
A few steps to help you use your inbox properly and quickly clear it. Based on methods proposed by Mark Hurst in his excellent book, Bit Literacy. (Jan 10, 2011)
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