Challenge of the Month (June) – Reduce email backlog

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Lars Vogel

I receive a lot of feedback on vogella.de, sometimes tutorial requests and lots of error and improvements corrections. The stuff I like I usually keep in my inbox until I find the time to act on it.

The IT challenge of this month will be to reduce my email backlog. Every day I will try to leave my email inbox with one email less in it. Currently I have 69 open emails where I need something to do.

[Update] I found another bucket of emails (35) which I once sorted to another folder for a demo. This made it 104 emails in total at the beginning of the month.

About Lars Vogel

Lars Vogel works as an independent Android and Eclipse trainer, consultant and book author. He is also a regular speaker at international conferences. With more then one million visitors per month Lars website vogella.com is an important source for Android and Eclipse related programming topics.
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2 Responses to Challenge of the Month (June) – Reduce email backlog

  1. Fredrik says:
    June 27, 2011 at 10:25 am

    How are you planning to do this? Just by applying more raw power (i.e spend more time reading/answering) or by working smarter?
    Automatic rules for sorting and filtering comes to mind, but that wont help with the actual answering. Would be intresting to know what you come up with

  2. Lars Vogel says:
    June 27, 2011 at 10:40 pm

    @Fredrik: I’m planning a summary at the end of this month.