This blog is about as far away from a productivity blog as you could imagine, but I really enjoyed Josh Spector’s list of one sentence email tips … especially numbers 38, 19, 11 and 1.
joshspector.com/one-sentence-email-tips
No one ever says “I wish the paragraphs in that email were longer.”
The more people you cc on an email, the more of a clusterfuck it will become.
The worst time to “do email” is every time you get an email.
The simplest way to get fewer emails is to send fewer emails.
I should say that emails aren’t really an issue for me even though sometimes I get too many. But some kind of email hygiene isn’t such a bad idea (and this list is a pretty good place to start).