How to manage an unruly email inbox

How to manage an unruly email inbox

Unless you are genuinely dedicated to helping financially-strapped Nigerian royalty, or hording Canadian Viagra, chances are you have to sift through a lot of useless email in a day. Heck, even the non-SPAM from people you know and love can get a little overwhelming at times.

Here are some simple tips for managing your email inbox!

1. Delete the junk first. Each day, make a couple of sweeps through your inbox and remove all the spam. This will provide a clearer picture of actually needs your attention.

2. Separate by priority level. If you’ve got some pressing emails that need responses, put them in an URGENT subfolder and get on them right away. For important, but less urgent items (such as those from family and friends), set aside a folder to put them in, and reserve a time each day to review them.

3. If something only requires a quick response, do it! If you are performing step 2 (above) and you identify an email that only needs a two-word reply, just get ‘er done! It’s one less thing to worry about. Never let the simple ones linger.

4. Don’t save everything! For business, it is important to create a well-organized structure of sub-folders and keep a virtual paper-trail for as long as possible. But pet photography forwarded by your great aunt in Wisconsin? Not so much. Commit to regular clean sweeps of non-essential (but non-SPAM) emails.

5. Stop signing up for stuff! Really, do you need the monthly subscription to the Gold and Silver Futures Trading Investment Tip Email Newsletter? Check out everything you’re getting on a regular basis, and then “UNSUBSCRIBE” liberally!

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A brief history of the cubicle

Maligned by office workers everywhere, referred to by many as the “three walled prison”, the cubicle is not considered a favorite destination for any adult who has to find a way to pay the rent. But perhaps a little insight into great moments in cubicle history will help us see this faux-office in a different, more positive light…well, maybe not, but here’s the information anyway.

• The cubicle is to have made its first appearance in the offices of chipmaker Intel Corp during the 1960’s.

• Robert Propst designed the first office cube, while working for Herman Miller. “We need to stuff more people into these buildings”, Miller was thought to yell out one day during an adverse reaction to his medication.

• Author Douglas Coupland once famously referred to office cubicles as “veal fattening pens”.

• There is a punk rock band in Los Angeles called Cubicle that plays songs about office life.

• The term “cube farm” refers to offices that grow quickly and therefore need to be loaded to the max with cubicles.

• Research has shown that people who decorate their cubicles with cat photos are scorned by their co-workers at lunch with a 152% greater frequency than those without cat photos.

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