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Kim N tripped over the fiscal cliff

be more organized at work (read all 4 entries…)
I made some headway with the e-mail

I googled up some advice on how to organize e-mail and didn’t really find anything I liked, so I improvised.

I have the inbox for intake of e-mails and a few things that need to keep my attention.

Then I have a follow-up folder I need to look at periodically and work through.

Then I have a few categories like “Admin/Supervisory” and “Training” and “Personnel” for things that don’t need to keep my attention, but I’ll need to refer back to.

Everything else goes into an archive folder that I can sort and search.

It felt like a pretty good system by the end of today, so we’ll see how it goes.



Comments:

Sounds great.

I need to adopt your approach to work e-mail organization, Kim. I go to a 2 hour meeting and I come back to my office to find 10 new e-mails and none of them are junk or about the office kitchen fridge cleaning!

Kim N tripped over the fiscal cliff

That's one reason I hate meetings ...

the work keeps coming in while I’m gone!

I can’t tell you how many e-mails I deleted about the office fridge cleaning. heh I’ll be deleting those immediately from now on. I don’t use the fridge, so I don’t have to clean it!!

My new system is working very well so far. I even initiated a small project from reviewing my “follow up” folder that I probably wouldn’t have otherwise.

This is all feeling good, but the truth is, I’m not swamped right now like I usually am. The true test will be when I don’t have time to breathe!!


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