• Use the $5 technique. Pay your favorite charity $5 for every e-mail you read and respond to. You’ll be amazed how quickly you can focus only on the truly important e-mails.
• For chatterboxes who send a dozen e-mails a day, save up and reply to everything at once. Don’t even try to keep up several different threads.
• Pick up the phone and call when you’re replying for the third time. Even if you type 130 words a minute, phone is faster than an e-mail back-and-forth. ";
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• Send deferred replies. If a topic isn’t urgent, compose your reply but set it to go out tomorrow or a couple of days in the future.
• Jot replies on paper before touching fingers to keyboard. If they’re not important enough to write by hand, chances are they’re not important enough to answer!
• For low-volume writers, reply to one point per message. People who use e-ail sparingly can keep their thoughts clearly separated by limiting each message to one point. (For high-volume writers, do the exact opposite. See above!)
• Send short replies, or none at all. If it’s important, they’ll eventually call.";
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• Find out what overload costs you each year: http://www.OverloadAssessment.com
• Expanded “Tips for dealing with email overload”: http://www.SteverRobbins.com/r/email-overload
• Useful reading: \"First Things First\" by Stephen Covey, \"Getting Things Done\" by David Allen.
• Articles at http://www.SteverRobbins.com/articles/"; // END editorial data