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I have a bad relationship with email. It’s not that I don’t like them but I think that checking the inbox too often is a compulsive action, not a necessity.
I hate those email clients which notify me when a new mail arrives. It’s distracting… it’s totally unproductive… I mean, the power of the email is that you can receive messages while offline or busy and you can read them when you want to.
Whenever I find myself repeatedly checking my inbox I feel like a dog waiting for a cookie. And even when people are not compulsively checking their inboxes… they’re probably scanning their past messages in order to organize their days.
Scanning messages over and over again. Not a good practice if you want to get things done.
Checking emails every couple of hours is more than enough.
Are email clients becoming our new to-do lists? Should we spend so much time on our email inbox? Should our lives be email driven?
On this subject Merlin Mann gave us a great presentation inlined here:
Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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