Too Busy Filing Emails To Actually Read Them?

Ask yourself this question, but think carefully and honestly about the answer first: do you spend more time answering your emails than you do creating an organized inbox and carrying out your daily filing routine? Very likely, the answer will be no. It seems more and more of us are spending an increasing amount of [...]

How To Avoid Work When You’re Checking Email

When was the last time you cleaned out your inbox? I don’t just mean looked at it, or briefly squinted at it whilst trying not to let yourself admit how full or overloaded it was. The chances are, if you’re like millions of other email users suffering from email overload and seriously reduced email productivity, [...]

Killing email doesn’t help anymore

Quiet some time ago,  I had a great system for keeping my inbox uncluttered and avoid email overload. For every email that I received I had an auto responder which said:
PLEASE NOTE: I receive way too many emails a day! I respond to emails between 8 – 10 AM, all emails in my inbox which [...]

Organized Inbox, Potato Peelers, Broken Pencils And My Aunt Gertrude

I have a real problem with drawers. My kitchen drawer looks like a stationery shop collided with a cutlery factory. I have drawers stacked so full of odds and ends that opening or shutting them becomes a task that needs real planning. If I need anything, I know exactly where it is though – in [...]

MoveIT – Solution to Email Overload

MoveIT will help you with email overload!
That’s quite a statement. Let me qualify it. Unless you’re prepared to take extreme measures on your emails, no one can actually reduce the number of emails they receive. We can’t reduce the number of incoming emails, simply because we don’t control that. The easiest way to be able [...]

Email Overload – first post

Overview on what led me to create MoveIT, an Outlook plugin that helps reduce email overload, keep your inbox clean, and give you more time to do the more important things in life.