Thank you I can very much relate to almost everything you said! Been there done that and arrived at a very similar system. I think an important point that is only implied with the use of a check cadence is: Unless your job is answering emails, DO NOT make your email client ping you, if you get a new email right away. My advice would be to have the mentioned cadence for checking for new mails and not have it notify you at all. If you think you need the reminder once in a while you can set most email clients to only notify/pull emails every x minutes/hours. I also have a kind of email you didn’t mention: digests. For example I am not interested in getting an email for every chat message I get, but if I missed messages for more than 8h I want to know that. This might also be applicable to Jira and other tool. These are usually okay to delete, like other Jira notifications.
Thank you, this is very true! I have to admit I don't have an email client anymore - I just use the web based portal nowadays but not being pinged is a vital part of the process! Also good point on the digests!
@@TheCorporateEtiquette I use the web client most of the time as well. Not enabling push was a conscious decision, switching to web only wasn't, but it works out nicely.
Thank you I can very much relate to almost everything you said! Been there done that and arrived at a very similar system.
I think an important point that is only implied with the use of a check cadence is: Unless your job is answering emails, DO NOT make your email client ping you, if you get a new email right away.
My advice would be to have the mentioned cadence for checking for new mails and not have it notify you at all.
If you think you need the reminder once in a while you can set most email clients to only notify/pull emails every x minutes/hours.
I also have a kind of email you didn’t mention: digests. For example I am not interested in getting an email for every chat message I get, but if I missed messages for more than 8h I want to know that. This might also be applicable to Jira and other tool. These are usually okay to delete, like other Jira notifications.
Thank you, this is very true! I have to admit I don't have an email client anymore - I just use the web based portal nowadays but not being pinged is a vital part of the process! Also good point on the digests!
@@TheCorporateEtiquette I use the web client most of the time as well. Not enabling push was a conscious decision, switching to web only wasn't, but it works out nicely.