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Tracking pending items in your email program

Here’s a quick and easy tip to track information/question requests that you send out via email.

set up a folder in your email program called Pending

every time you send an email in which you are requesting a response, bcc: yourself

when you receive the message in your inbox, transfer it to your Pending folder

establish a regular day, or days, of the week on which you check your pending folder and follow up as necessary

delete the emails of completed requests so that the folder stays fresh and current

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Pingback by Project Simplify » Blog Archive » Using email folders | 2006/03/27 at 22:39:36

[...] Take immediate action General rule of thumb, if you can respond and be done with it in 2 minutes or less, just do it. Then that email gets to be deleted or moved to the Pending folder (for more about this folder, read on). [...]