Vacation Email Triage
Email management is something that I have a passion for! For me it is a sink or swim kind of a thing and as I get ready to take holidays I often focus on the dreaded return back to reality with hundreds and hundreds of email that I need to catch up on.
As you all [...]
Random Phrase Popup in Excel
I use a pretty large Excel Workbook every day in my job. I thought it might be nice to have a “motivational” phrase show each time the workbook was opened. Something to start the day out on the right foot.
In my workbook I created a worksheet called phrases that simply consist of a motivational [...]
7 Strategies to Help Manage Email Overload
Email is my nemesis. I use tools like Clear Context and Xobni to help me manage the email that I have but it still seems to be absolutely overwhelming at times. In my blog perusals today I found a great article on Dr Dewett’s Weekly Column entitled Feeling Bogged Down by Your Email. The [...]
Xobni – In All Fairness… an Update
It was pointed out to me by a reader via email that I haven’t really kept you all in the loop with my Xobni saga… So this brief post will hopefully get you all up to speed and give you some insight of what I am working through and still hope to get resolved.
Unfortunately, [...]
5 Quick Email Productivity Tips
You know I am always looking for productivity tips and tricks, particularly in the area of email since I am literally inundated with hundreds of them a day. In the area of KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) – 43 Folders shares their 5 tips. Elegantly simple yet absolutely right on track… I can honestly [...]
Email Overload and Reminders – The Nagless, Productive Way!
In this day and age of email overload I find that I am having to contribute to the overload because individuals that I have exchange email or telephone calls with have committed to do something that invariably it gets buried in their hundreds if not thousands of email. Ultimately they forget the deadline unless [...]
It’s a Sad Day – I Uninstalled Xobni
For those that have been tracking my progress with Xobni I have to say that today is a sad day. After multiple attempts at trying to figure out if there was a way around my problem – nothing could be found – I really didn’t have much choice but to perform the uninstall.
In a nutshell, my [...]
Email Etiquette – Think Before You Press the Send Button!
I get my fair share of email every day… currently in the 150 – 200 range and that is after they’ve gone through our corporate mail filters so that number does not include spam. I use Xobni and ClearContext IMS as plugins on my Outlook in order to increase productivity and still I find that I [...]
Xobni – My Continuing Adventure!
I posted about my initial Xobni impressions a number of weeks ago. Recall that Xobni (zob-nee), inboX spelled backward, is a Microsoft Outlook plug-in that provides you with nearly instantaneous access to “the most important information in your email”. This message is a follow-up to that message and provides more insight on my continued use.
I think it [...]
Excel Tip – Worksheet Templates
When using Excel I find that I will often times want to setup a worksheet that I can use as a template. For example I might have some monthly sales or inventory tracking that I do and I want to use the same format each month, but I want each month to be on a separate [...]
