I’m pleased to say this proved a big success, and really has helped manage my email inflow. My jury is still out on whether or not this is a net time-saver, but it has led to the more on-the-ball PRs sending me pitches that address one of my stated interests, so I’m sticking with it for now. I thus tried an experiment of responding to uninteresting ones with a form reply which asks them not to follow-up and gives them a list of bullet-points of things that do and don’t interest me. The more persistent PRs will send a second and sometimes a third email ‘just circling back’ to see whether the thing that wasn’t of interest last week has magically become interesting a week later. The sheer volume of emails would suggest that the only sane way to handle them is simply to delete the ones that don’t interest me – but this creates its own problem. The majority of these are either not remotely relevant to me, or simply insufficiently interesting to cover. I mentioned last time a professional application.Īs a tech writer, I get a lot of PR companies emailing me with details of new products and services they’d like me to feature. You can use a specific trigger, which defaults to the tab key in PhraseExpress, but I find the double-period approach faster. The latter is to guard against accidental triggering. for address, the initials of our building)
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