An inbox should be a task list not your steam backlog.
If I don’t need to do anything on this today, then I snooze it, or I archive it. If I know it’s going to be 2 weeks - I snooze it for 2 weeks. If I am done working on a task today then I snooze it.
Unless I clock out early, my inbox is empty at the end of the day.
Also if I am not explicitly required to do anything for an email, I just archive it under [Project name]. It’s by definition not my problem. If it becomes my problem - someone will explicitly ask me to do something.
There is so much shit that will end up on your desk, or at your inbox that you don’t actually have to do to keep your job. People forget, and tasks are forgotten about, all the time. Prioritization happens everyday by everyone.
For example my boss just talked to me with [feasibility for some inane shit]. I am going to not do anything and say it’s not feasible if asked - it’ll take me too much effort to research it. But the likelihood of him even following up is so low it’s might as well be a lottery ticket.
Snooze is such a game changer.
An inbox should be a task list not your steam backlog.
If I don’t need to do anything on this today, then I snooze it, or I archive it. If I know it’s going to be 2 weeks - I snooze it for 2 weeks. If I am done working on a task today then I snooze it.
Unless I clock out early, my inbox is empty at the end of the day.
Also if I am not explicitly required to do anything for an email, I just archive it under [Project name]. It’s by definition not my problem. If it becomes my problem - someone will explicitly ask me to do something.
There is so much shit that will end up on your desk, or at your inbox that you don’t actually have to do to keep your job. People forget, and tasks are forgotten about, all the time. Prioritization happens everyday by everyone.
For example my boss just talked to me with [feasibility for some inane shit]. I am going to not do anything and say it’s not feasible if asked - it’ll take me too much effort to research it. But the likelihood of him even following up is so low it’s might as well be a lottery ticket.