Lately, I have come to despise scheduling meetings via email- it’s especially challenging to do so with multiple attendees. Some of the annoyances include confusion about time zone, multiple emails going back and forth, having to gather all of the info, and it never fails that none of the times proposed work for the last...
Category Archives: Email Overload
Email Software- Organizing Help or Hinderance?
One to-do list, one calendar. Talk to any professional organizer worth their salt and they are likely to make this recommendation for being organized. So, when it comes to incoming information, similar rules apply. If the majority of your information comes in via email, you may want to take a closer look at the email...
Detox Your Inbox: Part II
Are you frustrated and overwhelmed by all of the emails in your inbox? Do you have trouble finding information when you need it? Are you frequently scrambling to get something done at the last minute because the email got buried in your inbox? Do you spend too much time drowning in emails and not getting...
Tips for Detoxifying Your Inbox
One of the easiest steps for detoxifying your inbox and getting a jump on inbox overload is to stop it before it comes in. It's also a great tip for dealing with your paper inbox. So you can apply these tips there as well. Are there subscriptions that you never have time to read? Do...
Email Pain Points
photo credit: gruntzooki We live in a society where we are bombarded with information from every angle and we are especially overloaded by incoming email. Try Googling "Email Overload"- you will get 299,000 results. Everyone seems to be suffering from it. So, why are we so overloaded by email? Here are some points of pain...