Comments on: 5 Tips for Managing Email Overload

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How to Simplify Your Life in 10 Steps « estafanymayalejo.co.cc — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 03:55:18 +0000

[...] offered tips on managing email overload. Did you read and implement the steps suggested? If you haven’t yet, it’s time you get started [...]

By: Jon Spooner

Jon Spooner — Mon, 16 May 2011 18:49:01 +0000

Hello- I just clicked back to this article and have to share a great tool/game/find that I recently started playing with:

http://emailga.me

It is from the same folks who have created the very useful Boomerang (a FireFox based tool for Gmail allowing for email timestretching)

And I gotta say I tried Email Game this morning and whew it totally worked! I flew thru all of my emails rather than getting sucked into one email early in the order and losing track of the task (getting down to 0 new msgs)

hope this helps someone else-

Jon Spooner

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Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:15:40 +0000

[...] of the time, I just use my smart phone instead of my laptop to surf the Web and check my e-mail. But there was one thing that my smart phone couldn’t do for me, help me hear [...]

By: Freek

Freek — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:24:06 +0000

Susan, great post. Nice and to the point.

I’m using XOBNI in Outlook. Indeed, it improves search capabilities slightly, but
it’s still not very fast, nothing compared to the search in Google.

I would advise to use that or the Google Desktop integration as proposed above, works like a charm!

By: Marsha Egan

Marsha Egan — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:29:07 +0000

Great article. To be extremely productive in managing your e-mail, I like to suggest that people check their and inboxes in the longest intervals possible. For the average business person, five times daily works. By avoiding all those interruptions, you can really get a lot done. The receipt of e-mail messages breaks concentration, and many people don’t realize how costly those breaks in concentration can be.

By: Rhodes Davis

Rhodes Davis — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:22:26 +0000

For Outlook, I disabled new mail notifications BUT I set up a rule to notify me when I get an email from the executives or my accounting system manager. Go to the Rules Wizard, choose “Display mail from someone in the New Item Alert Window,” choose their email addresses, then choose “display a Desktop Alert.”

By: Susan Johnston

Susan Johnston — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:53:49 +0000

Thanks for the heads-up on Kwaga! We’ll look into this.

By: Susan Johnston

Susan Johnston — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:45:01 +0000

Yes! Here’s how to create filters, Susannah: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6579 Thanks for reading!

By: Mike Vardy

Mike Vardy — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:46:05 +0000

Joshua, thanks for your comment. More importantly, thanks for the disclosure.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:23:59 +0000

Good article. For search functionality in Outlook, may I suggest Google Desktop’s Outlook Integration: http://desktop.google.com/features.html#additional

Xobni provides some additional functionality, but for pure search Google Desktop works better in my opinion.