Use Canned Email Responses to Boost Productivity

The folks at Gmail have done it again: an incredibly useful email hack. This one lets you send quick thank you notes, away from the office messages, it can even be set up as a personalized autoresponder for your blog. Read the article at the Official Gmail blog to find some more tips like the one below to improve your email productivity.

Create filters for your email based on certain words. Turn on Canned Responses and the filter can automatically generate a response based on the words it finds.

Spend Less Time in Your Email

It’s worse than junkmail. And, unlike junkmail, it has a tendency to grow to uncontrolable proportions. There are some things you can do to reduce the amount of time you spend in your In-Box:

1. Create Folders
2. Create a Message Rule for Common Emails

Blissfully Domestic gives you advice on how best to set up these folders and the key points for creating your “message rule.”