别让电子邮件偷走你的时间！

    3. 在正确的时间发送电子邮件。

    根据Baydin的分析，普通电子邮件用户每天会写40条信息，但如果没人读这些信息，它们就没有任何作用。比如，摩尔发现，早上六点钟发送的信息与之后任何时间发送的信息相比，被打开的几率更高。另外，午饭后也是阅读信息的一个小高潮期。他说：“如果你想请求某人做某事，在对方血糖升高之后，你便越有可能实现自己的目的。”

    4. 不要过于频繁查看电子邮件。

    《18分钟法则：心无旁骛，做正确的事》（ 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done）一书的作者彼得•布雷格曼认为，仅仅经过一代人，处理电子邮件的时间便从零增长到占个人时间的28%，其中是有原因的。他说：“因为电子邮件造成一种有效工作的假象，所以特别容易让人分心。”比如，你本应该专心做提案，但你不想这么做。于是，你跑去查看自己的收件箱。他说：“如果看电视不被惩罚，你或许也会去看电视，而不是写提案。可是你看不了电视，于是你就跑去查看电子邮件了。”

    有更好的解决方法吗？有，那就是分批处理法。布雷格曼每天查看三次电子邮件，并且发现这种方式可以每周节省多个小时。他说：“从没人抱怨没有及时收到回信。”如果每天查看三次不适合，可以尝试每一个小时查看一次，集中精力工作40分钟，然后用20分钟处理收件箱。如此一来，你会发现自己的工作效率将会大大提高。

    译者：刘进龙/汪皓

    3. Send email at the right time.

    According to Baydin's analysis, the average email user writes 40 messages a day, but there's no point writing these emails if they don't get read. A message sent at 6 a.m. is more likely to be opened than one sent later in the day, Moore reports, though there's also a small bump in reading after lunch. "If you need to ask someone to do something, you're more likely to get what you want after their blood sugar is up," he says.

    4. Don't check email so often.

    Peter Bregman, author of 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done, notes that there's a reason email management has grown from zero hours per week to 28% of a person's time in a generation. "Email is such a seductress in terms of distraction because it poses as valid work," he says. You're supposed to be working on a proposal, but you don't feel like working on the proposal, so you check your inbox. "If you could get away with watching TV, you probably would instead of writing that proposal, but you probably can't, so instead you check email," he says.

    A better solution? Batch process. Bregman checks three times per day, and finds this saves him many hours per week. "No one's ever complained they haven't gotten an email back fast enough," he says. If three checks per day won't work for you, try checking just once an hour instead, doing 40 minutes of focused work, then 20 minutes of inbox management. Chances are, you'll get a lot more done.