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“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” – Henry David Thoreau I’m often asked how to handle e-mail overwhelm. While I do use some great apps to help stem the flood, the most important shield is still low-tech: a rock-solid e-mail autoresponder. This unsexy tool allows you to ignore some or …
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Pretty soon, many of you will get an email from me. It’ll probably surprise you. See, when I sketched out the original 4-Hour Workweek site in 2006 (sorely in need of a redesign), I included an email capture field, as that’s what friends said I should do: Then I promptly forgot all about it. I hated …
E-mail is the single largest interruption in modern life. In a digital world, creating time hinges on minimizing it. The first step towards controlling the e-mail impulse is setting up an autoresponse, which indicates you will be checking e-mail twice per day or less. This is an example of “batching” tasks, or performing like tasks …
Reflecting or deleting e-mail can be an art form. (Photo: marinegirl) An increasingly popular approach for escaping the inbox is the routine use of e-mail autoresponders. Love it or hate it, reflecting or deleting e-mail can be an art form. I’ve collected some of my favorite autoresponders of 2007 from Gmail and included them below. …
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