I had a computer meltdown this week and had to go back to my old trusty Compaq computer.
I won't go into a rant here, but it did force me to manage my email differently. I was stuck with Web mail for each of my addresses instead of Outlook.
As I checked them, I noticed two interesting things:
1. I only checked each email address a few times a day.
2. I did not have previews enabled, so I deleted messages that were not personal, anticipated and relevant immediately.
As a result, I was in and out of email in record time.
My conclusions?
Use Webmail instead of Outlook and you won't get distracted by incoming email messages throughout the day.
Keep the preview feature closed and read emails that are of interest and delete those that are not right away.
After all, if the email is not immediately identifiable, why take the time to look at it.
