Mr. Mann has a great collection of work hacks to filter the noise around the workplace. Here’s my favorite email filter: Smoking the bacn – Similar to my “no press releases†trick, filter any email that contains the string “to unsubscribe.†Although many of these certainly will be valuable (sign-ups, Google lists), that string means ...
Mike Davidson is fed up with lengthy, open-ended email that takes waaaay too long to send an adequate reply. His beef boils down to the fact that email can be downright unfair. More than any other medium in the world, the time commitment difference between sender and receiver is huge. For instance, if you call ...
 Psychology Today has an article giving some insights into the mind of your average procrastinator. Aside from some very interesting facts on the condition (did you know that procrastination is bad for your health? Or that procrastinators drink more?), it also points to a problem that many people have, procrastinators or not. Email. Not surprisingly, an achilles ...
Here are some great links to check out in your free time this weekend. I found all of these over at the del.icio.us popular pages. It’s pretty interesting stuff… but then again would I point you to anything that wasn’t? :) Hipster PDA Templates “Inspired by Laurent Baumann’s brilliant Flat WhiteBezel icon set, the templates ...
Mark over at Productive Strategies has a pretty amusing posts that list nine ways to kill productivity. My favorite: Use email for things that should be done in person. Things that require a quick back and forth conversation or where you know you aren’t providing everything they need for an answer are bound to lower ...
Kelly Forrister’s been really busy improving her productivity… by taking a vacation. I was also off email for 6 days–always a great experience for me to disconnect from the world that way. Sure enough, despite hundreds of emails upon my return, nothing was so urgent it couldn’t wait or be covered by someone else. When ...
Grant at DownloadSquad thinks that Gmail is the best thing since sliced bread. He even states that it may have in fact saved his life! (Or at least 10 hours per month). I would have to agree… I switched from Yahoo! Mail Beta to Gmail mainly because of the conversation-style threading, and have never looked ...
