Email Organization Quotes

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.

Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.

I do everything via email. Which in turn works as my tickler file and prioritization queue. I start at the top every morning and keep on going until I'm finished. I don't do calls. I don't do meetings.

I get a lot of email, so if you're sending me an email, if you want to rise above the clutter, put something on it: say, 'Hey!'

When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email.

I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.

Anyone with an inbox knows what I'm talking about. A dozen emails to set up a meeting time. Documents attached and edited and reedited until no one knows which version is current. Urgent messages drowning in forwards and cc's and spam.

E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it.

Email is here to stay - it's time we got better at using it.

I am definitely a keep-it-clean type of person when it comes to e-mail. My 'important' folder on the Gmail app is constantly clean. When a new e-mail comes in to my important folder, I immediately look at it and determine what action item comes with it. The action item may not get done until later, but at least I know it's coming.

A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.

E-mail is a victim of its own success.

We can improve the utility of email by maneouvring its use in a constructive manner.

The Gmail app is definitely the app I use the most. I am always running from meeting to meeting, so it keeps me up-to-date with everything going on. I actually e-mail more often from my iPhone than my laptop, so having a nicely designed e-mail app is really important.

I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.

I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.

My inbox is the enemy.

Oh, some day I'll tell you about why I wrote more than 1,500 Gmail filters. They throw away more than 300 emails every day. Every day. It's the best thing I ever did for my productivity.

The challenge of email is that people send you stuff for free, and it becomes items on your to-do list.

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