We Have to Fix E-Mail
Yesterday, someone posted a Web site called emailcharter.org. It’s 10 principles that are designed to ease the problem.
This isn’t a new idea; you can find similar articles all over the Internet. (You can also find “zero-inbox” advocates online: people who advocate filing all e-mail every day, so you always leave work with an empty Inbox. To me, though, that’s just a self-fakeout. You’re just shuffling the same unanswered messages into folders.)
What is new, though, is that the “someone,” in this case, is Chris Anderson, who runs the high-profile TED conferences. Both the speakers and the audiences for this conference are exactly the kind of well-known influencers — with bulging In boxes — that might help him start a movement.
David Pogue offers some helpful advice and links to help with the very real problem of email overload.