👍 Digitally Literate #210
Five.sentenc.es is a personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be five sentences or less.
The website above gives you a piece of text to place in your email signature to let people know about your goal.
I’ve noticed that my emails are getting longer and longer. As I try to provide more details, the recipient is reading less and less. This year I’m going to try and limit myself to five sentences for each reply. That forces me to be concise, to choose only the essentials of what I want to say, and limits the time I spend replying to email.
Learn more in this post by Leo Babauta.
Thank you Ian for link to the email habits. I have been trying to improve my workflows for a while, but after reading Leo Babauta’s piece, I think the issue is my use of email. This also reminded me of Doug Belshaw’s email tips.