This is Steveer Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Email has become the dominant form of communication and we're all overwhelmed by it. And as email has evolved,

our tools and behaviors around email have changed. The tips that can best help us manage the email

beast are different

too. We used to send and receive messages. Now many email clients, like Gmail, for example,

organize those messages into conversations and threads. Yay! And now we have so many conversations

and threads that we need to organize those. Boo! We need new email best practices and we need them now.

Fortunately, it's now.

Now, you have to manage your subject lines as a major source of organization.

Keep your subject lines consistent.

Most email programs decide what belongs in a thread or conversation by looking at the subject. So stick to the

same wording when writing subject lines within one thread, and when you reply to a message,

don't reword the subject line or that will lose that message out of the thread.

Europa was helping plan Bernice and Melvin's wedding. They finally had a date set,

and the communication lines were open

with a florist, the staff, caterers, and a photographer. Grandma Cuddles even pitched in,

offering to staff the event with hundreds of little tots dressed as waiters. How cute and totally

ethical. Grandma Cuddles used the subject line, kitties, to discuss the labor arrangements.

And while Europa wasn't a huge fan of having explicit evidence in the subject line of their back and forth,

she decided to keep it there.

Any word that she removed from the header would have lost an email from the thread,

and she really didn't want that.

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