TPS76: 8 Best Practices for Email

Mike, Thanh, and Zack discuss ways to tame email by processing it regularly, aiming for inbox zero, and using technology to systematize email management. The cheat sheet also points to pull notifications, older-first sorting, and boundaries that keep email from creeping into everything.

Reading notes

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• maintain inbox zero by processing email regularly
• one approach mentioned is checking email only once a week
• decide what to do with each email when it arrives
• the number of unread emails in the inbox is not that important
• use pull notifications instead of push to avoid distraction
• apply the “touch it once” concept
• use email technology and software to your advantage
• sort email and read the oldest received email first
• put boundaries in place to stop “email creep”