diff --git a/timemgt.md b/timemgt.md index cf68434e..91a2afd6 100644 --- a/timemgt.md +++ b/timemgt.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# Time Management +## Time Management ### for Overworked Mortals --- Kathleen Fitzpatrick // @kfitz@hcommons.social // kfitz@msu.edu
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ Note: with a great big caveat: Your Mileage May Vary. Which is to say that there # Email -Don’t 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. +- Don’t 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.