# Beyond the Inbox: Rules for Reducing Email - Study Hacks - Cal Newport

<https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2020/04/14/beyond-the-inbox-rules-for-reducing-email/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Three very practical tips for dealing with some common email challenges. 

> What’s instead imperative is to move more of this work out of your inbox and into other systems that better support efficient execution. You can’t, in other words, avoid this work, but you can find better alternatives to simply passing messages back and forth in an ad hoc manner throughout the day.

I couldn't agree more on scheduling. When I get an email about scheduling something it is all I can do to not simply delete it on the spot since I know how hard that is. I use Doodle for this. I also agree on capturing things outside of email, and as a GTD person I use OmniFocus mostly for that. I've never done office hours, but this article and the current remote work setup has me thinking I might give that a try!

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