Message #52619

[bethalize]

Hello, Jelena.

How much responsibility does your boss want you to take? If he is happy for you to manage his inbox you can delete things or handle them to get them down. Quite frankly if the man isn't going to read the summary then there is no hope for the actual emails!

You could set up a rule to move everything where bossie is CC'd into a separate folder. It will still be his job to read it all - and it will be marked 'unread' until he does - but it won't clutter up the things sent directly to him.

You can use the organise function to mark emails sent only to him in a different colour. I find this one quite useful. I have emails only to me in blue and list emails in green. I think that the sender is the most significant piece of information in an email to help you judge what to do with it. I respond to different people with different priority levels and this would support that theory. If that applies in this situation you could get him to indicate what priorites people have for him.

I'm not seeing a quick and easy answer to this one I'm afraid. Would he work better if you could get the notification to his PDA or mobile phone?

Bethalize
Peer Moderator