Comments on: 9 Tips For Better E-Mail Productivity

By: Strata Title Management

Strata Title Management — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:42:40 +0000

Thanks for all the tips. Actually I have done most of them except for about two of them. Will consider them immediately. This is a very nice and informative blog.

By: Rose from FineCraftGuild dot com

Rose from FineCraftGuild dot com — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:44:19 +0000

thank you thank you thank you

some of these are reminders
other are new good ideas…

i have to be efficient with my time these days
and i like some of your ideas here for me.

By: Julian Schrader

Julian Schrader — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:13:35 +0000

I'm actually using Mail Act-On 2 today to archive my e-Mail — that said, I removed all rules from Mail.app, rules are processed on GMail and only there (I'm using Google Apps for my domains). My process usually is: New mail in Inbox? Read it. Do what needs to be done about it or put task(s) into Things, my GTD app. Archive that mail (move it out of the Inbox) or delete it.

By: Dr Shock

Dr Shock — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:20:08 +0000

How do you make the rule to put read messages into archive?
Thanks

By: Link Building

Link Building — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:08:23 +0000

I am SO very glad to see that you listed spam filter as #1 – You would be surprised at how many people actually do not have any filter running. I would have to say 9 out of 10 pc’s that are having trouble can be sorted back to issues with email spam ie. virus, worms ect that have been transfered though a simple email.

By: Joe Lane

Joe Lane — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:23:34 +0000

Very nice list Julian. In fact, I’m emailing this to my husband. E-Mail productivity is huge. I hate it when my emails fill up whereby the scroll bar appears!

By: Michiel

Michiel — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:39:45 +0000

Although I like Thunderbird, it did crash on my pc, so I’m back to outlook now.
Reading your spam mails? Are you serious? That would be a full time job when you’re in the link building business!!
Julian thanks for the tips. I could use some advice sorting out my outgoing mails cause I spend way too much time going through my ’sent’ folder, looking for something I sent someone months ago…

By: Julian Schrader

Julian Schrader — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:17:54 +0000

WTF, we’re required to read spam mails? Holy shit, that’s hilarious!

When my Thunderbird mail volume grew to the 10.000 mark it kept crashing all the time. And it’s been slooooow. This is why I wrote it sucked — I can’t say anything about the current version, maybe it’s better.

But I won’t try it because Mail.app doesn’t do such stuff though it has to manage many more mails today

By: Philipp

Philipp — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:05:54 +0000

300 spam-mails? Ok…
You should read them , because if you get an e-mail containing child pornography or a link to child pornography and you do not notice the police about this mail this may be a criminal act (german law).
A new chapter in the story “Politicians and their understanding of the internet”

And stop bashing thunderbird or I start bashing mac
In my opinion Thunderbird is a quite fine program, it never crashed on my pc…
And thanks for the blog,… again!

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:10:39 +0000

Thank you for these tipps! i configurated my antivirus program, that’s also very useful!

By: Julian Schrader

Julian Schrader — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:36:30 +0000

Thanks for your comments!

I’m still too quick when it comes to writing answers and I hardly use my drafts folder though I’m trying to slow the medium down a bit.

By: Eric Barnes - 68KB

Eric Barnes - 68KB — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:32:50 +0000

I have to agree with the other comments. Great Post!

Number 8 is my own worst enemy. I always want to respond as quickly as possible so it makes the person think I care about them and it cleans out my inbox. But just as you have written this also causes them to think I am their big brother and will be around to answer any crazy question within 10 minutes.

I have seen that if you make them wait there is a good chance that they will do some research and/or look through the help documentation.

By: Pimp your Mac

Pimp your Mac — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:40:05 +0000

Wie ich meinen Email-Workflow verbessern kann – Teil I…

Während andere sich mit GTD beschäftigen (Danke für die tollen Tipps, Jafeth!), bin ich noch immer dabei, klein anzufangen. Mit den produktiveren Abarbeiten meiner Emails, beispielsweise. Denn meine Frage ist: Wie kann ich meinen Email-Workflow ver…

By: Computer-Blogger

Computer-Blogger — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:02:36 +0000

thank you for your very article. I’ve just stumbled and bookmarked it! Tank you, George

By: Nikolas Schrader

Nikolas Schrader — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:39:06 +0000

Great Tips – I really like SpamSieve – it´s really usefull…