Infoglut. Widely-acknowledged, oft-reported, much-bemoaned.
Lots of ideas out there to help one manage in a sea of email, IM, yada yada yada. GTD, and all that.
As my personal email style tends towards the garrulous, I find the idea of this new policy most appealling:
Hmmm... but hang on a second. Maybe I like this one even more. Or is this one more practical? Or this...?
Oh, make yer darn minds up.
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Lots of ideas out there to help one manage in a sea of email, IM, yada yada yada. GTD, and all that.
As my personal email style tends towards the garrulous, I find the idea of this new policy most appealling:
The ProblemI like it.
E-mail takes too long to respond to, resulting in continuous inbox overflow for those who receive a lot of it.
The Solution
Treat all email responses like SMS text messages, using a set number of letters per response. Since it's too hard to count letters, we count sentences instead.
three.sentenc.es is a personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be three sentences or less. It's that simple.
Hmmm... but hang on a second. Maybe I like this one even more. Or is this one more practical? Or this...?
Oh, make yer darn minds up.
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