From the course: Efficient Time Management
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Tips for filing emails
From the course: Efficient Time Management
Tips for filing emails
- I mentioned earlier that I deal with emails on the day that they arrive, not checking very often, but dealing with all of them on the day. And they're either done there and then, deleted, or put on my Jobs-to-do list. For emails that are put on the Jobs-to-do list, you could either put them in the Done folder or a To Be Done folder, depending on how you like to work. Personally, I think it's less work to put them straight into the Done folder, because once they're on my Jobs-to-do list, they are effectively done, they will be done. So in email terms, they don't need to be thought about anymore. If you move them into a To-Be-Done folder, then that's really a Jobs-to-do list and you then have two problems. One is that you have two Jobs-to-do lists, the email one and your normal one, so how do you prioritize between the two of them? The other problem is that the email folder is a really bad Jobs-to-do list. You can't easily change the order of the tasks, for example. I know you can…
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