Does anyone else feel like their inbox has become their job?
Lately I’ve realized I’m not spending most of my day doing the work I get paid for. I’m managing email, follow-ups, scheduling, and loose ends around that work.
It’s not even the time. It’s the constant background stress of “did I miss something important?”
Curious how other freelancers and solo operators deal with this.
I ended up building a personal assistant for myself to own inbox-derived work so nothing important slips, but I’m more interested in how others approach the problem.
Here's the link if you're curious: get-alfred.ai
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If the sender eventually proves to be a freeloader, they get added to an auto-respond list. I hope to enhance the auto responder with AI soon but for now it just tells them I'm busy and to bugger off. You never miss anything that important.
My policy is really simple, if it's important someone will reach out a second time.
yeah a PA is the standard solution