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Kathleen Fitzpatrick
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# Time Management
## Time Management
### for Overworked Mortals
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<smaller>Kathleen Fitzpatrick // @kfitz@hcommons.social // kfitz@msu.edu<br />
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# Email
<span class=”fragment”>Dont use your inbox as a to-do list.</span>
<span class=”fragment”>Get rid of the small stuff quickly.</span>
<span class=”fragment”>Move the bigger stuff into a proper to-do system.</span>
<span class=”fragment”>Use other tools as much as possible.</span>
- Dont use your inbox as a to-do list.
- Get rid of the small stuff quickly.
- Move the bigger stuff into a proper to-do system.
- Use other tools as much as possible.
Note: So, with that said, a few thoughts on email. As my co-panelists have said/will say, I have found that using my email inbox as a to-do list is a HUGE error, not least because I start breaking out in hives when my inbox has more than about ten things in it, and my to-do list is ALWAYS longer than that. Not to mention that when the list of things in my inbox gets long enough that I have to scroll, I'm going to start forgetting stuff. My brain is a little simple that way: if it's not right in front of me, it doesn't exist. So I try to deal with email as quickly as I can. If a message can be dealt with in less than a minute or so, I try to take care of it right away, unless I'm in a period of focused work. If a message requires more consideration than that, or if it requires me to do something, I get it into my to-do workflow and either archive the message or use the Snooze function to have it reappear in my inbox at a point when I can deal with it. And as I think my colleagues will also say, I try to move as much internal communication out of email as possible. My research team and related colleagues rely heavily on Teams for most of our quick communication.