Zack and Mike go in-depth on some new workflows that the Asian Efficiency team has been developing regarding our most time-intensive task: email. Email often takes a huge chunk out of your day, and we’re here to fix that. Learn how you can ruthlessly process your inbox to move on with your tasks and increase your productivity.
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Cheat Sheet
- A recap of the original AE email workflow and why it needed to be updated
- Startling statistics about how much time people actually spend dealing with email and how you can escape your inbox
- How to effectively use triggers to make sure you see emails at the right time
- How you can achieve (and keep) inbox zero
- One simple trick which can make your inbox processing MUCH simpler
- Why you should always archive messages after you process them
- The real reasons why you NEED a task manager when processing email
- Criteria to use when trying to decide if you should send emails into the reference folder
- When to delegate actions from emails you receive instead of doing the task yourself
Links
- Inbox Zero challenge
- Simple Guide to Managing Email
- Getting Things Done
- Todoist
- Inside Omnifocus: Email
- Omnifocus
- Remember the Milk
- Trello
- Dispatch
- Polymail
- SaneBox
- Advanced AE Email Workflow
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