The Hamster Revolution: How to Manage Your Email Before It Manages You

Process! Take a few hours each day (or a minimum of a few nights per week) to process the contents of your in-box.

Knowledge workers with highly trained skills, and the ability to produce high-value output with their brains, spend much of their time wrangling with computer systems, scheduling meetings, filling out forms, fighting with word processors, struggling with PowerPoint, and of course, above all, sending and receiving digital messages from everyone abou

To be efficient, you must do the same with your inbox. This means addressing all the urgent cases right away and maintaining Inbox Zero every day. If you check your email incessantly, multiple times an hour, you are wasting hours of productivity. Instead, batch your time and clean out your entire inbox at those times. I recommend checking your inbo