Life Of E's

Shipley, David & Schwalbe, Will.  SEND:  The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home. Much of what’s in this book is common sense…at least one would think so.  However, a good portion of what the authors share clearly isn’t being demonstrated as common sense or common practice up to this point.  Read this book [...]

Tags: David Shipley, email guide, email management, Will Schwalbe

Morgenstern, Julie. Never Check E-Mail in the Morning (And Other Unexpected Strategies for Making Your Work Life Work). Morgenstern originally published this book under the title: Making Work Work, and then realized that the provocative phrase “Never Check Email in the Morning” would make her book fly off the shelves. It should fly off the [...]

Tags: email, email management, Julie Morgenstern

McGhee, Sally. Take Back Your Life! Using Microsoft Outlook to Get Organized and Stay Organized. For anyone who uses Microsoft Outlook, this books is worth reading…and even if you don’t, most of the concepts apply across the various types of productivity software. As I skimmed this book at the bookstore prior to buying it, I [...]

Tags: email management, email organizing, Microsoft Outlook, Sally McGhee

Trapani, Gina. Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day.  A hacker is “Someone who solves a problem in a clever or non-obvious way. A lifehacker uses workarounds and shortcuts to overcome everyday difficulties of the modern worker: an interrupt-driven existence of too much to do and too many distractions to keep you from doing [...]

Tags: email management, email tricks, Gina Trapani, lifehacker, tech tricks