Sound familiar? goes and installed the Rescuetime on my laptop, which runs in the background and allows you to track time spent on applications like email, Word, Excel etc. and websites. You can also set up Rescue time on any other devices, such as tablets or mobile phones. The software runs reports, which even in the free version gives you a pretty detailed analysis of what applications you spend your time on.
You can define sites and
applications as “business” or “distracting”. The premium bc data hong kong version then has advanced features, such as “focus time” where you set the amount of time you require full focus on a task, during that time the programme won’t allow access to your email or distracting websites like Facebook or Twitter. It was quite an eye opener and I realised that I spend far too much time on my email, which brings me to my next point.
Supercharge your Email
On a good day I receive between 200 and 300 emails, many of those I don’t have to action but at some point I started seeing my inbox grow to the thousands, which started giving me a sense of dread and it stressed me out just looking at my inbox. Therefore I introduced a few apps and techniques in order to aspire to the “Inbox Zero” heaven! The most important rule is to process your email on regular intervals per day.
I usually check my email
3 times per day: once at mid-morning, in the afternoon and before I finish off in the evening. During those times, I “process” my emails, rather than reading them and leaving them sitting in the inbox. Let me explain quickly how to best process your mail: As a rule I reply to anything urgent. Any message that requires to be actioned, should be moved into an “action” folder, you can also tag it as a task within Todoist or Toodledo.
Any emails that require no
immediate action but for you to read, should be moved into a “read” folder. If I’m waiting for a response I put the email into a “waiting” folder or if I want to this process has certain specific be reminded to get back to the person, I use Boomerang to have the email pinged back into my inbox after a specified time i.e. 1 week or if the person hasn’t responded within say 2 weeks. Boomerang has certainly great for this, without having to set reminders.
The free version gives you
10 credits per month. The paid version is also reasonably priced at $4.99 per month. This simple way of processing emails, has helped me get closer to loan data an empty inbox and less stress. No-one likes to see emails piling up in their inbox, right? Another fantastic and Free tool is Unroll.me, which is a nifty tool that will detect any subscription that you’ve signed up to. You can easily unsubscribe via the tool and have one overview email containing all