It’s time to stand up to e-mail

Thanks to the avalanche of messages they receive every day, many professionals and office workers say they suffer from email overload.
It doesn’t have to be that way.
People feel “they are complete slaves to email,” says Julie Morgenstern, founder of Julie Morgenstern Enterprises, a New York-based time-management consulting firm.
“They can’t control their knee-jerk response to check [...]

My e-mail diet

I’m finding it increasingly difficult to focus with the many demands for my attention. Work email, home email, IMs, voice mails from 3 separate places… it’s challenging to stay focused. With this in mind, I’m going on an email diet.
I’m doing the following:

Limiting mailing lists

I forward mail from my domain to a gmail account, where [...]

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When NOT to use email…

It would seem that for most people this is not intuitive. I’m still getting people asking me how they can reduce the inappropriate use of e-mail in their organizations. So this time around I’m going to be more explicit. Here are ten situations when you should not use e-mail, even though you may be tempted [...]

A 3-step cure for digital packrats

Every Monday is Productivity & Organization Day at Zen Habits.
I have a confession to make: until recently, I was a digital packrat.
While my outer life has become fairly simple, as I declutter my home and workspace, and my paper files have also become pretty simple, my digital life was a mess.
I had all kinds of [...]

How to work like the masters

From LifeRemix:
Here are a handful of tips on working from the most popular productivity bloggers on the internet, along with bloggers on organization, the environment and more. Instead of blathering, we will summarize and then allow you to read more if indeed you think a point is up your alley….
(Not only is this a [...]

Automatically archive old email

From Lifehacker:
Are you sick of hitting your email server’s space limit every month and having to clean out old messages manually? The How-To Geek explains how to configure Microsoft Outlook to automatically archive old email messages onto your hard drive. For example, you could have Outlook archive all messages older than 6 months every 20 [...]