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How many times per day do you check your email?
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miserabile visu
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Once a month.. or so. Usually when i forgot a password.
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work email all day. personal email whenever gmail notifier tells me there is a new one. i love email.
turnbuckle
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Whenever gmail notifier says I have a message, generally. If that little icon is blue, but I know I don't care about the email that originally caused it, I probably check it after a few hours (unless I get another notification while I'm at the computer and want to read it).
Work email - first thing every morning, then have it set to check for new mail every 10 minutes.
School email - almost never. School email is mostly only useful to me for getting discounts on software and shit. Will check at beginning of semester and if I'm expecting something from a prof, otherwise I pretend it's not there.
Work email - first thing every morning, then have it set to check for new mail every 10 minutes.
School email - almost never. School email is mostly only useful to me for getting discounts on software and shit. Will check at beginning of semester and if I'm expecting something from a prof, otherwise I pretend it's not there.
Patrick Bateman
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10x a day with my iPhone. 
CharlieDigital
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http://blogs.reuters.com/small-business/2010/03/02/e-mail-is-making-you-stupid/
The research is overwhelming. Constant e-mail interruptions make you less productive, less creative and – if you’re e-mailing when you’re doing something else – just plain dumb.
Within the heart of your company, saboteurs lurk. Disguised as instruments of productivity, they are subverting your staff’s most precious resource: attention. Incessant e-mail alerts, instant messages, buzzing BlackBerrys and cell phones are decimating workplace concentration. The average information worker – basically anyone at a desk – loses 2.1 hours of productivity every day to interruptions and distractions, according to Basex, an IT research and consulting firm.
The cult of multitasking would have us believe that compulsive message-checking is the behavior of an always-on, hyper-productive worker. But itÂ’s not. ItÂ’s the sign of a distracted employee who misguidedly believes he can do multiple tasks at one time. Science disagrees. People may be able to chew gum and walk at the same time, but they canÂ’t do two or more thinking tasks simultaneously.
Researchers at the University of Michigan found that productivity dropped as much as 40 percent when subjects tried to do two or more things at once. The switching exacts other costs too – mistakes and burnout. One of the study’s authors, David Meyer, asserts bluntly that quality work and multitasking are incompatible.
Within the heart of your company, saboteurs lurk. Disguised as instruments of productivity, they are subverting your staff’s most precious resource: attention. Incessant e-mail alerts, instant messages, buzzing BlackBerrys and cell phones are decimating workplace concentration. The average information worker – basically anyone at a desk – loses 2.1 hours of productivity every day to interruptions and distractions, according to Basex, an IT research and consulting firm.
The cult of multitasking would have us believe that compulsive message-checking is the behavior of an always-on, hyper-productive worker. But itÂ’s not. ItÂ’s the sign of a distracted employee who misguidedly believes he can do multiple tasks at one time. Science disagrees. People may be able to chew gum and walk at the same time, but they canÂ’t do two or more thinking tasks simultaneously.
Researchers at the University of Michigan found that productivity dropped as much as 40 percent when subjects tried to do two or more things at once. The switching exacts other costs too – mistakes and burnout. One of the study’s authors, David Meyer, asserts bluntly that quality work and multitasking are incompatible.
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I usually have Thunderbird opened most of the time, so I just get a notification when I get an email, so I don't really check usually.
Hmm, can't believe I'm the first to post about Digsby. It checks all my personal e-mail addresses and aggregates all my IM clients in one app. When I get mail, I see the notification icon, so there's no 'checking' of e-mail.
For work e-mail, outlook alerts me as soon as new mail arrives. Away from the desk, the iPhone handles everything else.
For work e-mail, outlook alerts me as soon as new mail arrives. Away from the desk, the iPhone handles everything else.
I'm low-tech, so I keep a tab open in my browser to Gmail. When I see a number pop up in the title, I check it. Then my work email comes through Outlook, so I get notified of that as soon as messages come in. When I'm away from the computer, I have no access to email, just as God intended.
I NEED SCISSORS
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I have about five e-mail addresses, each serving its own purpose, so about 5 times per day.
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