![]() Email is OK for the additional info (I just sent you an email with details, but HQ needs this response in the next hour), but not for notification. I’ve been trying to set the culture in at least my team that if something requires a response in less than 4 hours, you need to text or go by the other person’s work area. That way, I’m not distracted by anything that’s come in while I’m processing. During the day, I will often get all of my email, then put the email client in off-line mode and process.Yes, it’s obvious what’s happened when 20 emails go out all at once, but there’s no expectation of a response until the business day. If I need to work over the weekend (like I am today), I work in off-line mode so that colleagues (especially those who work for me) don’t see those emails until Monday morning.I can set Mac Mail.app or Mac Outlook to be off-line, where it doesn’t send or receive email. This is, IMO, one of the advantages of email on “non-mobile” devices. One thing I didn’t hear discussed was use of off-line mode for email. I’ve tried SaneBox and the Microsoft Outlook focus feature, and neither one of them is particularly effective for me. And that’s OK.Įmail needs more AI to prioritize messages for us. I try to do that once or twice a day but realistically I only get it done a couple of times a week. ![]() If it’s both important and urgent, then yeah I drop what I was doing and jump on it right away. Most of the time, the answer is no it does not require immediate attention, and so I glance at the alert, then go back to what I was doing and ignore the message. The alert simply exists to tell me whether the email requires my immediate attention. Then for the rest I have ALL the alerts switched on. My solution is to first create filters that move low-priority messages to a secondary inbox. Shutting down all my notifications and only checking email a couple of times a day isn’t an option for me. I also get emails from colleagues requiring immediate attention. I’m a journalist, which means that several times a month I get an email indicating a story I need to drop everything to work on right away. Many of us struggle with email overload, but there are also many different kinds of email overload.
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