I don’t exactly “check” email. I have Outlook permanently open on my secondary monitor and it downloads new mail every five minutes. However, I really don’t look at it except about once every four hours or so (I use email constantly for work, so it wouldn’t be safe to make the frequency lower than this). At the four hour point, I flag every item in the Inbox that requires some kind of non-immediate activity or response (and respond to the ones requiring immediate response). The flag is automatically set for tomorrow with a reminder, which effectively will give me a to-do list tomorrow from today’s email. After flagging the appropriate items, I select all the emails and file them automatically and all at once with the batch file function from SimplyFile. The whole process (flagging and filing, thereby emptying the inbox) takes about one to three minutes for each four hour cycle.
I don’t exactly “check” email. I have Outlook permanently open on my secondary monitor and it downloads new mail every five minutes. However, I really don’t look at it except about once every four hours or so (I use email constantly for work, so it wouldn’t be safe to make the frequency lower than this). At the four hour point, I flag every item in the Inbox that requires some kind of non-immediate activity or response (and respond to the ones requiring immediate response). The flag is automatically set for tomorrow with a reminder, which effectively will give me a to-do list tomorrow from today’s email. After flagging the appropriate items, I select all the emails and file them automatically and all at once with the batch file function from SimplyFile. The whole process (flagging and filing, thereby emptying the inbox) takes about one to three minutes for each four hour cycle.