Dealing With Email Overload && Prettier Setups
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Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Wes details "Breakout" — his email management strategy for overwhelmed creatives and Scott and Wes chat about how they have their prettier setup.
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The Show Notes!
01:00
02:00
- Do you like minisode or snackisode?
- Any other ideas for names for these short episodes?
04:00
- Email is often busywork
04:30
- You likely have a decision problem
06:00
- Kill it at the source! How do you stop email from getting to you in the first place?
08:00
- Your inbox is not the world's TODO list
- Process it when you get it
- Getting Things Done
09:30
- Filter! Filter! Filter!
10:30
- Germans sure do get a lot of vacation time!
13:00
- Expansions
- Using Robots for empathy
- Text Expander
- aText
15:30
- Dictation is great!
17:30
- Video responses
18:30
- Defer
19:19
- Batch Processing Email
- Send + Archive
20:31
- Stop emailing yourself
24:00
- Listener Question: How do you use Prettier?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there. |
| 0:06.0 | Strap yourself in and get ready. |
| 0:08.0 | Here is Scott Tolinsky and West Boss. |
| 0:11.2 | Hello everybody, welcome to Syntax. Today we got another mini soad for you and we're |
| 0:16.4 | going to be talking about how to deal with email how to deal with email overwhelm |
| 0:20.2 | everyone's got way too much email and I don't know I think I hit a bit of a breaking |
| 0:24.9 | point in 2017 with my email because it was just something that was taking too much of my |
| 0:30.5 | time something that I hated doing. |
| 0:33.4 | It just was, it was just a big problem for me. |
| 0:37.2 | And I think I've solved it. |
| 0:39.5 | And I sort of took all of my ideas into solving it and put it into a system. |
| 0:45.0 | My whole mantra to life is called make it a thing. |
| 0:49.0 | And so I took all of my lessons learned from solving my email woes and then put it into this thing |
| 0:54.8 | called the breakout email management system. So what we're going to do today is |
| 0:57.8 | we're going to go through the main points of the breakout email system and I'll sort |
| 1:01.8 | to explain what they are and how they might help you. |
| 1:06.0 | So how you doing today Scott? |
| 1:09.0 | Doing good. I look how you gave that Minnesode a little bit of a character there was that minnesota |
| 1:14.7 | Minneso! |
| 1:15.7 | It made it kind of fun. |
| 1:17.6 | I we haven't decided on if it's a minisode or not like if this is the word that we want to use but I kind of like it yeah I |
| 1:25.3 | you just sort of organically popped up or maybe like a snack a sowed you know |
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