Tag: email
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Scheduling Time to Respond to Emails
Staying on top of your email inbox can feel like a daunting and never-ending task. Although I don’t have any magic solution to this issue, the tip I’ll share today has helped me cut through the clutter much more efficiently, allowing me to stay focused on real work and thus have much more time during…
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How to Prioritize Responding to Important Messages
Have you ever planned to respond to a particular message and then found yourself replying to new ones as they arrive? Of course you have. We’ve all done it.
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Making Email Slow Again
When I first began to use email in earnest, while a student at MIT in the early 1990s, writing and reading emails had much the same feeling as writing and reading handwritten letters. By far the easiest way to write an email was to go to one of a small number of computer clusters…
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Gmail Offers Anti-Mindlessness Insurance
Google Gmail recently finalized its “Undo Send” feature, which enables you to recall an outgoing email up to ten seconds after you hit “Send” on it. The feature works by delaying the sending of the email for ten seconds, so that if you hit “Undo Send,” the email will not be sent in the…
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Too Bad Law Firm’s Mindful Email Policy Was Just an April Fool’s Joke
A law firm issues a policy restricting email at night and during employee vacations as an April Fools’ Day joke.
