I’m finding more and more how horrible email is on my phone.
While I’ve turned off 99% of my phone’s notifications (including email), if I’m out and about I’ll still get that itch and want to pick up my phone and check-in with my social networks and email…
And unlike Twitter or text messaging which allows for super quick easy replies, emails tend to take far more time to respond to.
And let’s be honest, phone’s just aren’t made to send long email replies. Auto-correct and small keyboards turn me off when it comes to long replies. So while I can often filter out a lot of emails on my phone, I don’t want to reply at length until I get a chance to sit down at a computer again.
And in the meantime, the email is stuck in my head ad nauseam.
“I’ve got to reply!”
“How will I reply?”
“How quickly do I need to stop everything and reply?”
On and on it goes.
I’ve even run into this on my desktop –while thinking I’d just quickly check my email before heading out the door. I fly through a bunch of unimportant emails that quickly get deleted and then there’s one or two stragglers that scream for attention.
Surely John Saddington and I aren’t the only ones who feel (mobile) email is so disruptive.
Do you? Have you found a solution?
John’s gone so far as to remove email completely from his “smart phone.”
I’m not there yet – but don’t think I haven’t considered it.
