caffemacchiavelli comments on Productivity poll: how frequently do you think you *should* check email? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: caffemacchiavelli 12 January 2015 03:30:48PM 1 point [-]

For me personally, writing email faster. It's really easy for me to get immersed trying to write the perfect email or forum post and burn through 40-60min without noticing. They're not even necessarily long, just excessively pruned and reformatted. Getting comfortable with an email with all the important content and okay phrasing saves me a bunch of time.

On second place, priority filtering, i.e. separating email to respond to from subscriptions, offers and notifications. Category filters are nice, but I don't think they're making me more productive.

Anything beyond that is kind of marginal for me. Shortcuts for inserting phrases are fun, but I don't use them that often. If I had to deal with repetitive inquiries, they'd probably be more important.

Comment author: tog 12 January 2015 05:57:44PM 0 points [-]

I'd add using keyboard shortcuts, which are available in desktop clients and GMail.