Gee I wish I had this capability when I was working. I could have been way more organized with guidance back to what I planned after interruptions interrupting my interruptions. lol
I don't know if this will help, but here are some things I do:
I read Email multiple times a day - I'm pretty much watching it constantly, and while I won't interrupt a project for it, the minute I decide to take a break, or a project is finished, I read any new Emails that have hot my inbox.
Those Emails that can be immediately and quickly (meaning less than five minutes of my time to deal with it) handled (via a response Email or whatnot) are done right then and there.
Those Emails which are an emergency and which NEED to be handled right away come next.
All others are prioritized, and I then create a Task in Outlook, with the necessary due date and information and then they get handled as they come up (though I'm generally always working ahead of schedule).
As for old Emails - I keep them three months, unless the Email has to do with something that I think may come back and try and bite me in the butt, in which case I'll keep them six months. After that, I delete them.
You could have written the book!! The only part they don't recommend is checking email lots, although they also said that it depends on your job. My problem is that email is only a small portion of my job and if I checked it too much I wouldn't get any work done. And after a day of 12 hours of meetings (today had that schedule), the last thing I want to do is look at email.
In my job I cannot delete them; I archive everything over three weeks old to my private storage, and this gets backed up by the regular PC backup. Since data storage is cheap, this is no big deal.
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I read Email multiple times a day - I'm pretty much watching it constantly, and while I won't interrupt a project for it, the minute I decide to take a break, or a project is finished, I read any new Emails that have hot my inbox.
Those Emails that can be immediately and quickly (meaning less than five minutes of my time to deal with it) handled (via a response Email or whatnot) are done right then and there.
Those Emails which are an emergency and which NEED to be handled right away come next.
All others are prioritized, and I then create a Task in Outlook, with the necessary due date and information and then they get handled as they come up (though I'm generally always working ahead of schedule).
As for old Emails - I keep them three months, unless the Email has to do with something that I think may come back and try and bite me in the butt, in which case I'll keep them six months. After that, I delete them.
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Since data storage is cheap, this is no big deal.
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let me know you're ok!
I'm not sure how close to or far from that plane crash you are.
let me hear from you!
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