Tomorrow is No Email Day: Ignore your inbox and do something more useful instead
A year ago, UK-based Paul Lancaster declared a No Email Day and managed to get coverage for it everywhere from The Next Web to the Wall Street Journal. It’s easy to see why, too. Honestly, does anyone like email? I can’t remember the last time I didn’t view my inbox as a chore.
So what do you do on No Email Day? Simple – ignore your email. Don’t look at your inbox at all and see what else you can achieve. As Lancaster wrote in his original manifesto last year (embedded below), ”If you do need to contact someone on this day, emails should be strictly off limits – replaced instead by real life, face-to-face interaction, picking up the phone or perhaps even writing a letter (remember those) Better still, if you can spend time away from work to be inspired and re-connect with the offline world.”
Of course, it might be a bit naive to believe that it’s possible to get by entirely without email, even for a day. Here at The Next Web we’d miss important news tips we need to share with you, and we can hardly walk down the corridor to chat to the entrepreneurs and investors with communicate with every day – they’re based in all sorts of places around the world.
Then of course, once you come back to your email the following day you might have to spend the whole morning catching up with people wondering why you didn’t reply to their urgent missive.
Still, No Email Day is a useful reminder that there’s more to life than your unread messages count. Do you dare ignore your email completely for 24 hours?
Post a Comment
I'm certainly not an expert, but I'll try my hardest to explain what I do know and research what I don't know. Be sure to check back again , after moderation i do make every effort to reply to your comments .