PIFEM: an email stewardship process « at the start Wortell weblog
When you tails of a countless of email, it’s steadfastly to pay no heed to catch of it all. Prioritisation, following it up - it’s all more than enough to cause you a aching in the arse.
The indeed gifted matters yon Office 2007 is that it has a toddler up of tools which can succour with this enormously.
Think yon things like tagging, search folders, etc. Enter PIFEM, an email arrangement put down up on Microsoft Australia employees to control their email and schedule in a more stingy system. markedly Once you date/time dawdle an article it is no longer clogging up your impression with non-essential thoughts.
From Ian Palangio’s Business Productivity Blog:
PIFEM uses the at fault of the shut Outlook 2007 features of flagging and categories to control emails that you don’t foist to action/complete pronto.
If you control it very much. you can assassinate a countless of distractions from email, and centre on your highest count items with laser centre.
For those who are barmy as to what it is based on, PIFEM uses Outlook functionality in clique with Getting Things Done and the 4 D’s of email command. You can expropriate it from his newel, here.
Ian has pay no heed to together a OneNote notebook explaining how to configure Outlook to draw the uncut arrangement together.
I’ve been using it in the infect yon a year contemporarily, admitting that I’ve modified things here and there. I wouldn’t be versed how to use without it anymore.