Snooze

The Power of the Snooze Button

Today I want to write about the power hidden in the snooze button. No, I’m not talking about the one on your alarm clock, though I find sleeping in to be nice, too.

I’m referring to the snooze option in your emails.

Full transparency, I’ve only just discovered this feature in my Google Workspace email account recently. But it has changed and improved the way I work dramatically. If I don’t have time to respond to a client, or even read their email at that moment, I’ll snooze their message until I know I can focus on it. Sometimes it won’t be til tomorrow or the day after that.

The truth is, if it had been an urgent matter, that person would have picked up the phone and called me.

If, like me, you service many clients or customers, some days can feel like the emails just don’t stop coming.

There you are, trying your hardest to focus on the task at hand.

But your email alerts are

ding

ding

ding

… one right after the next.

It’s human nature to want to click into the email with the interesting headline to see what it’s all about.

But stopping your current project to direct your attention to something else entirely is a distraction that interferes with productivity and workflow.

Guess what. The sender of that email can wait.

The snooze button is like a broom for your inbox. If your email feed is full of half unread, starred, flagged, color coded emails and it’s stressing you out, click “snooze,” my friend. Choose what day and time you want to see that email again and it’ll magically disappear.

Poof!

Out of sight.

Out of mind.

Swept under the rug (just for now), so you can finish the current task.

And then, like magic, it reappears at the time convenient for you. The time you chose to see it.

I’m not going to get into the technical side of your email’s snooze feature here, but I found an article you may find helpful in learning how to use it.  Read it here.

Now… what was I doing again?!  

Just kidding. Get back to your flow, friend.