Productivity
A New Tool to Help Manage E-Mail Overload
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Dealing with e-mail can be like shoveling in a snow storm. Reply to 10 e-mails, press the Send and Retrieve icon, and 15 more arrive. Answer those and 20 more roll in. If you have an empty inbox, you’re likely unemployed.
To handle this flood of messages, many people keep their e-mail application open at all [...]
Four Dumb Things I Do Out of Habit (But Plan to Stop)
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008A week ago, I switched to browsing the Web using a portrait- rather than landscape-oriented monitor. Although my new monitor can pivot back and forth between the two orientations, I haven’t moved it back to landscape mode since trying out the Web in vertical format. This is definitely the right orientation for all the reasons [...]
