Do You Push Your E-mail?
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I have push notifications setup on my IPhone but on my tablets (yes plural) I have email there but no notifications setup for them. My phone is always at least within arm's reach if not in a pocket and my tablets are on my desk and being used. When I had them all pushing email and notifications setup on everything with my desktop and laptops each dinging when I got email it was a bit annoying and took a good 5 seconds for the noise to stop
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That's a good idea @minion-queen my tablets all beep and bop unnecessarily. I'm going to adjust that.
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@Minion-Queen said:
I have push notifications setup on my IPhone but on my tablets (yes plural) I have email there but no notifications setup for them. My phone is always at least within arm's reach if not in a pocket and my tablets are on my desk and being used. When I had them all pushing email and notifications setup on everything with my desktop and laptops each dinging when I got email it was a bit annoying and took a good 5 seconds for the noise to stop
Was it like conducting a symphony all day? With the volume of email you get you practically could...
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@ajstringham yeah pretty much at least they all had different noises, and it drove the Aspie's in my house crazy!
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@Minion-Queen said:
@ajstringham yeah pretty much at least they all had different noises, and it drove the Aspie's in my house crazy!
...and knowing you, you turned that off? The woman who goes around making pictures crooked, etc?
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I'm a little surprised no one has mentioned not pushing e-mail to conserve battery life.
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@ajstringham it was even driving me a bit nuts.
@networknerd The battery life on my devices is so good that pushing email hasn't been an issue at all.
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@networknerd I agree with @minion-queen. I haven't had issues with battery life.
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@NetworkNerd said:
So am I the only radical out there who doesn't push his e-mail? Do you find that pushing e-mail to your phone makes you a slave to it in a way?
I have my phone set up to only push during the work days. On weekends, I don't wish to be a slave to email, so it's set for manual.
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@Katie said:
@NetworkNerd said:
So am I the only radical out there who doesn't push his e-mail? Do you find that pushing e-mail to your phone makes you a slave to it in a way?
I have my phone set up to only push during the work days. On weekends, I don't wish to be a slave to email, so it's set for manual.
Yes, I would agree that pushing emails makes you a slave to it. I have also heard that there is a measurable stress level that is activated and can be bad for you long term when these notifications go off (especially in the IT world where email is the main form of communication with automated emails and CC's etc). My personal opinion however is that you have to judge your own personality type to discern whether or not this is stressful for you. Other possibilities include only turning on notifications to critical email to reduce the number of alerts received, utilizing your filter so that non critical emails do not go into your inbox for notification, or just going back to facsimile.
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@ejmillen said:
@Katie said:
@NetworkNerd said:
So am I the only radical out there who doesn't push his e-mail? Do you find that pushing e-mail to your phone makes you a slave to it in a way?
I have my phone set up to only push during the work days. On weekends, I don't wish to be a slave to email, so it's set for manual.
Yes, I would agree that pushing emails makes you a slave to it. I have also heard that there is a measurable stress level that is activated and can be bad for you long term when these notifications go off (especially in the IT world where email is the main form of communication with automated emails and CC's etc). My personal opinion however is that you have to judge your own personality type to discern whether or not this is stressful for you. Other possibilities include only turning on notifications to critical email to reduce the number of alerts received, utilizing your filter so that non critical emails do not go into your inbox for notification, or just going back to facsimile.
I'm the opposite. If you push emails to me and I don't get alerted, I know that nothing is wrong and no one needs me. If I don't push emails I live in a state of "maybe something bad has happened and I haven't heard about it yet." I find nothing more comforting than push emails so that I have the benefit of being able to truly relax knowing that I have not missed something.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@ejmillen said:
@Katie said:
@NetworkNerd said:
So am I the only radical out there who doesn't push his e-mail? Do you find that pushing e-mail to your phone makes you a slave to it in a way?
I have my phone set up to only push during the work days. On weekends, I don't wish to be a slave to email, so it's set for manual.
Yes, I would agree that pushing emails makes you a slave to it. I have also heard that there is a measurable stress level that is activated and can be bad for you long term when these notifications go off (especially in the IT world where email is the main form of communication with automated emails and CC's etc). My personal opinion however is that you have to judge your own personality type to discern whether or not this is stressful for you. Other possibilities include only turning on notifications to critical email to reduce the number of alerts received, utilizing your filter so that non critical emails do not go into your inbox for notification, or just going back to facsimile.
I'm the opposite. If you push emails to me and I don't get alerted, I know that nothing is wrong and no one needs me. If I don't push emails I live in a state of "maybe something bad has happened and I haven't heard about it yet." I find nothing more comforting than push emails so that I have the benefit of being able to truly relax knowing that I have not missed something.
I fall into this category with @scottalanmiller. If I do not wake up in the morning to 30+ emails from the various systems, then something is friggin broke. I absolutely hate waking up and not seeing all those system emails out there, because I have to then log in and find out where they are.
That said, I do have the iOS Do Not Disturb setting on automatic so that I do not get a ping or even a vibrate when an email come in after a certain time in the evening.
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I've found that iOS calendar functions work better with push enabled, so I just turned of all notifications, sound, and such for email. Every couple of hours or so, I'll process my inbox, as well as make sure that I'm at zero before bed and when I wake up. During the workday, I process my inbox about every 40 minutes or so, but constantly work out of my "next" folder. The reason for this is that I found out that constantly trying to keep up with my email was preventing me from really getting into projects and tasks effectively. This way, I can still keep on top of email and address actionables, yet I can still perform non-email tasks effectively.
