Email Hacks:
What Everybody Ought to Know
According to a report by McKinsey Global Institute, workers spend 28 percent of the work week reading and responding to emails.
That means you lose 13 hours of work each week to email.
To unburden yourself from the weight of email overload, there are 3 things you can do:
- Establish a framework to reduce the time it takes to manage email.
- Be strategic about how you draft content and manage replies.
- Rely on technology and hacks to make all of this just a little more efficient.
This is how I have been using Gmail since 2013:
- GTD - Getting things done
- An easy to manage, usually empty inbox on the left.
- All my “to-dos” in the first box on the right.
- All emails “awaiting a reply” in the second.
- All “delegated” emails in the third.
- All FYI emails easy to find in the fourth.
- All done with 0 plugins, using only standard Gmail features.
I promise to send you weekly, short, and applicable information.