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Chris C
Chris C

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How much effort should be put into e-mail?

If you're like me and have inbox anxiety on more days than you would like, I find concise messages that are formatted properly work best in about 7/10 messages. No crazy cursive fonts and walls of text.

Embrace Teams or Slack. They all have potential flaws at times but can be more convenient than email.

Use Outlook rules to auto-sort what you want.

Measure twice, send once, and all that jazz!

What other e-mail tips, etiquette, and user interfaces do you have to share? <3

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miniscruff

If you are using a platform that has a nice activity dashboard, hide all emails that duplicate that and manually check the dashboard a few times a day. This removes the email bing and let's you batch check stuff. Things like GitHub, gitlab or Basecamp all that them. I believe.

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Chris C

Basecamp looks very nice. I want to try it one of these days.

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