I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.
I see email being used, by and large, exactly the way I envisioned. In particular, it's not strictly a work tool or strictly a personal thing. Everybody uses it in different ways, but they use it in a way they find works for them.
When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email.
E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient.
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.
Email is the greatest thing.
We can improve the utility of email by maneouvring its use in a constructive manner.
I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.
I have always used e-mail to the greatest extent possible.
Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.
I'm exceptionally email un-savvy, so to reply to my emails is like a torture. It's like literally, half of all my emails, I get my secretary to type out for me. And the personal ones, I avoid and just pick up the phone and call them.
