![]() People, especially successful ones, don’t usually sit staring at their inboxes all day, reading new messages as they come in. Make Sure Important Messages Actually Get Read You can even schedule things to come back to the top of your inbox if someone hasn’t replied to you-making it easier to remember to check in when other people haven’t followed up. Say someone asks you to reach back out in a couple weeks once his schedule has opened up-instead of having this message linger in your mind (and inbox) until then, or just forgetting to follow up, write the message now and schedule it for three weeks out. You can go on with your day knowing that an impressive thank you note will arrive just the right amount of time after the interview. So sit down and write the email now, but schedule it to go out in two or three hours. You don’t want to send it immediately-because that would look a little over-eager-but you also don’t want to get into your day and forget to send it in a few hours’ time. Let’s say you’ve just walked out of an interview and know you need to send a prompt thank you email to the people you talked to. We’ve found that it not only helps us better manage our inboxes, but that it’s actually helped us improve our communication and boost our careers.ĭon’t believe us? Here are a few clever ways to use this tool. We at The Muse have been using (read: obsessed with) email scheduling tool Boomerang for Gmail for quite some time now. You can also check out our guide to Gmail’s canned responses here.But have you ever wondered why we aren’t able to schedule messages on the communication tool we use even more than social media the thing we spend more than two and a half hours a day on the platform that runs the modern business world? I’m talking about email, and I’m here to tell you that if you’ve never thought about how scheduling emails can make your life (and career) better, you should. The tools mentioned above give you much greater control over your meetings. ![]() However, there’s no way to control these slots and you can end up with a lot of calls in a day. ![]() There are also tools like Calendly that can show all free slots to people you want to schedule a meeting with.
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