Here’s a great site that helps you cut back on the time you spend responding to emails.
When I stumbled across Five Sentences I thought that there was no way it would work for me. The theory is to treat all emails as if they were SMS messages, but because characters are too hard to track (and would be time consuming to count) they suggest that you limit your responses to five sentences instead.
After putting this into practice, I’ve cut down on my email time quite a bit.
When you arrive at the site, there’s not much to do it just explains the premise behind it and offers you an optional bit of text that you can copy and paste into your e-mail signature, so that people will know why your e-mail was five sentences, and I think to encourage them to respond in kind. They even offer a two, three, and four sentence option as well.
This site also made me rethink the way I reply to certain types of emails, and I decided to create some letter templates (all under five sentences) that I can just copy and paste into an email. It’s really helped a lot.
I hope you’ll check it out and give it a try yourself!
~Amanda
So what are the 5 sentences?
if you ask me it’s rather rude. don’t tell people that this is what your doing, just keep your responses to a minimum. like this e-mail.
So you are basically saying that all emails should be a haiku.