![]() ![]() ![]() If you’re a current Omnifocus user then great, if you’re not, OmniFocus is a Mac and iOS productivity app built upon David Allans “Getting Things Done” methodology. This tactic is super easy to implement, and it is the foundation of how I manage email follow up. In this post, I am going to illustrate how I use OmniFocus to track email correspondence, specifically what emails that I need to follow up and when. Have you ever experienced that dreaded feeling when a colleague or your boss asks you “where are we at with XYZ” and you think to yourself, “Ohh sh*t, I forgot to follow that up!”. Given the ever-increasing demands on our time and the sheer volume of requests coming in each day, I realised that if I was going to have shot at keeping on top of email follow up, I needed a trusted system, one that won’t require my brain to remember everything that I need to follow up and when. Most of us these days spend a substantial portion of our day in our email inbox, I came across an interesting fact in a Huffington Post article which pointed out that U.S workers spend on average 6.3 hours in email. One aspect of my daily workflow that I have struggled with is effectively managing email follow up, specifically having a system in that shows you all the emails that you need to follow up and when. ![]()
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