Zack chats with Asian Efficiency's resident email expert Mike Schmitz about checking email on your phone. We spend a lot time on our smart phones and far too much time processing email, and this episode will help you deal with it more efficiently. Learn how to boost your productivity with these email dos and don’ts as well as some great apps for processing email on your phone.

Cheat Sheet

The shocking amount of time people actually spend on their email every day

The real impact that checking email first thing in the morning has on your productivity

How the fear of missing out (FOMO) effects your email-checking habits

Why you should fight the tendency to check email all the time

How Mike was able to stop checking his email in the morning and the surprise impact it had

What “just checks” are and how they add up to hours and hours on our phone everyday

How we can unintentionally condition our brains to avoid deep work if we're not careful (and what we can do about it)

Why you should use pull instead of push notifications to do email on your terms

Why email apps on your phone can be effective when used appropriately (and how to do it)

Examples of things you can do when creating automated actions using email clients on iOS

The mobile email apps we use at Asian Efficiency

How to make mobile email processing fit in with your personal productivity system

Links

TPS16: Inbox Zero and Other Email Tactics to Spend Less Time in Your Inbox

TPS76: 8 Best Practices for Email

Productivity Blueprint

Shawn Blanc

Deep Work by Cal Newport

Dispatch

Airmail

Launch Center Pro

Spark Mail

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