Search is No Savior for Overloaded E-mail Inboxes
Last week, the New York Times ran an article titled 5 Easy Ways to Stanch The E-mail Flood. As an author and speaker on time management who spends a lot of time taking about and dealing with e-mail for both myself and my clients, I am always interested in new tips and tricks for making e-mail more manageable and more productive. Moreover, I am generally loath to take issue with other people’s positions on how best to do this. However, this particular article left me with a sense of surrender and failure that has nagged at me for days. So, on behalf of myself and all my clients, this is my response.