Overcoming 'email reflex disorder'

摘要

When you receive notification of a new email message, you may feel compelled to attend to it immediately, but doing so breaks your train of thought when working in another application or when talking to a client. We'll give you strategies for responding to email at a more reasonable pace using Microsoft Outlook. Our best practices to avoid that "I'll just take a peek" urge include steps to: 1. Set Outlook to check for mail less often so email doesn't constantly enter your mailbox. 2. Disable automatic email alerts that pop up and distract you. 3. Create an email rule to alert you to truly important incoming mail so you don't miss important messages.