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Yopo Productivity: Email Tips

Tip 1: Reduce incoming Inbox e-mail by diverting Cc’d messages to a personal folder

My assumption is that if I’m only copied on a message, it’s less important than when I’m a primary recipient. Diverting these before they hit my Inbox helps me prioritize and reduces my Inbox by nearly a third. I process e-mail in the Cc folder after I’ve handled my more urgent messages.

Tip 2: Set up a sent log to have a digital trail when you need it

I can quickly resend something—or prove that I really did follow up on that action item in my sent log.
All you have to do is create a new email address in gmail or just BCC yourself on important emails so you can keep track of them. I then created 3 folders: waiting on, immediate & later where I place stuff that needs to be followed up, happen now or in the future. BCCing myself on the emails I place that email in the Waiting on so I can follow up with people in the future.

Happy New Year! Thanks to all the great people this year: Rob, Devin, Jennifer, Mark, Dustin, Ezra, Zaw, Jay, Jennifer, Shivani, Ramit, Naomi, Viet, Seth, Marti, Micah, Johnny, Chenchen, Jack, Justin, Kevin, Simon, Nirali, Ginny, Paymon, Charlene, Neville, Dennis, Mike, Bryan, Derek, Wenwen, Dane, Tim, Melody, Melissa/Joe, Nicole K, John, Andrew, Will, Rishi, Alex, Daniel…and many more. I am pumped for 2k6:)
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