Emails are an integral part of professional life and well composed emails concerning business proposals, meetings plans or exchange of ideas can get a lot of work done in a few clicks. However, how many times have you sat in the office and realized that you had not done much in last half an hour other than check emails? One often has this urge to refresh one’s inbox in expectation of some important email or glance to the alert box even if one if working on something else. So there is always a dilemma on whether one is managing one’s time well with respect to emails. It appears that this issue is more universal than one could have thought. The New York Times has an article on managing one’s emails efficiently. (more…)