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I’ve written about e-mail overload issues in the past, and today I’m presenting what I believe is a simple, low-fi solution: sentenc.es.
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Dean JarveyA Low-Fi Solution to E-Mail Overload. Q: Why is this email 5 sentences or less?
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Every e-mail I send to anyone, regardless of subject or recipient, will be five sentences or less.
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Roland GesthuizenI’ve written about e-mail overload issues in the past, and today I’m presenting what I believe is a simple, low-fi solution. Every e-mail I send to anyone, regardless of subject or recipient, will be five sentences or less.
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- More than any other medium in the world, the time commitment difference between sender and receiver is huge. For instance, if you call me on the phone and we chat for 10 minutes, that’s 10 minutes of your time and 10 minutes of my time. If you write me a handwritten letter and I write you one back, that’s maybe 30 minutes of your time and 30 minutes of my time. If we exchange text messages, that’s 10 seconds from you and 10 seconds from me. But with email, often times the sender will ask two or three open-ended one sentence questions which elicit multi-paragraph answers. In these cases, the sender spends one minute and the receiver is asked, implicitly, to spend maybe an hour.
- When faced with an inbox of 100-400 messages, I usually find myself replying to the messages which are quickest to reply to, rather than which are most important to reply to. The end result is a continual paring down of my inbox until I have 50 really important messages to reply to which are then too old to take care of.
A Low-Fi Solution to E-Mail Overload: Sentenc.es
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007I’ve written about e-mail overload issues in the past, and today I’m presenting what I believe is a simple, low-fi solution: sentenc.es.
In a nutshell, I have two issues with e-mail:
In thinking about how to reduce this problem for me personally, I came up with a technology solution which, while cool, would require way too much buy-in from OS makers, mail application providers, and individuals. Essentially, whenever you send me an e-mail, I’d like to be able to instantly pop up a Toast or Growl message on your desktop for a few seconds with a status message of my choice. Something like “Current response time estimate: 7 days” or something more personable. I don’t like auto-responder e-mails because I’m not trying to clog up your inbox, but the ability to send you a quick, fleeting status message would be excellent. Perhaps even when you just hover over my name in the
To:field before you even send the mail.
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George Kao"Every e-mail I send to anyone, regardless of subject or recipient, will be five sentences or less. In order to politely explain the systematic brevity with a similar amount of brevity, I will link to a new site I just set up called five.sentenc.es in my
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Gary BurgeI’ve written about e-mail overload issues in the past, and today I’m presenting what I believe is a simple, low-fi solution: sentenc.es.
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Shelley PaulEvery e-mail I send to anyone, regardless of subject or recipient, will be five sentences or less. Like a cinquain.
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Johann RichardI’ve written about e-mail overload issues in the past, and today I’m presenting what I believe is a simple, low-fi solution: sentenc.es.
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