{"id":3709,"date":"2005-02-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/slow-e-mail-productivity-tip\/"},"modified":"2005-02-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-16T12:00:00","slug":"slow-e-mail-productivity-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/slow-e-mail-productivity-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow E-mail Productivity Tip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.43folders.com\/2005\/02\/five_fast_email.html\">43 Folders has five fast e-mail productivity tips<\/a>, and I think it&#8217;s a fine list.  However, if you have more time and an interested group of people, I offer this suggestion: <b>subject codes<\/b>.  In my organization, nearly every e-mail that&#8217;s sent has one of the following subject codes in the title:<\/p>\n<p><b>AR:<\/b> action required, the e-mail requires you to take some action<br \/>\n<b>FYI:<\/b> for your information, this e-mail is for your information, no action required<br \/>\n<b>PYR:<\/b> per your request, the e-mail contains information you&#8217;ve requested<br \/>\n<b>Q:<\/b> question, there&#8217;s a question for you in the e-mail<br \/>\n<b>EOM:<\/b> end of message, for those willing to put the entire message in the subject line<\/p>\n<p>We had heavy buy-in from senior management, so there was an especially high uptake when we introduced them.  However, people are still using subject codes three year later &#8212; a good sign that it&#8217;s meeting needs.  It also helps that most of us have the codes in our signature files.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t invent this, but I can&#8217;t remember where we judiciously swiped the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>43 Folders has five fast e-mail productivity tips, and I think it&#8217;s a fine list. However, if you have more time and an interested group of people, I offer this suggestion: subject codes. In my organization, nearly every e-mail that&#8217;s sent has one of the following subject codes in the title: AR: action required, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}