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- Dispose of each email. OK, you’re ready to process your inbox (or your “to clear” tag). Open each email, one at a time, and make a decision on what to do with it. Here are your choices:
- respond immediately
- tag it “@reply” if you can’t respond now (and archive it)
- delete it
- delegate it (forward and delete or archive)
- put it on your to-do list (and then archive), if it has an action in it that needs to be done later
- archive it if you need to refer to it later.
Those are your choices. Do one of those, quickly, with each email, and move on to the next. When you’re done, you’ll have an empty inbox!
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If you get a lot of email — and let’s face it, web workers live in their email — it’s likely that you already use Gmail to handle your communication needs. But are you doing it as quickly and efficiently as possible, so you can get back to your real work (read: Twitter)?
Master the tools of your trade and you will soon be churning through your email like it’s butter. Crank quickly, and get out.
I get well over 100 emails a day, and I suspect I’m not alone in this department. But I respond quickly to each one (if necessary), and empty out my inbox each time. And with the help of some of the rules and tricks I share below, it doesn’t take me long.
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Alejandro TortoliniBlog con consejos y técnicas para mejorar el uso del email y otras tareas.
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