Check your email 3 times a day (morning, noon and afternoon) and see how it changes your life. If you can go through 600+ emails in an hour after a weeklong vacation, why do you spend so much longer every day in your email client? Simple – because you are not grouping like tasks. I would correct the punctuation, capitalization, and spacing so it reads: Hey John, Just checking if youve had time to send your email. I am attorney Enrique Zachary, I am contacting you again to confirm if you received my previous email regarding your family member inheritance. Imagine the hours you waste by checking and responding to email all day.Īs the 4-Hour Work Week (and almost every other productivity expert) will tell you: batch like tasks. 2 Answers Sorted by: 2 This is more of a cultural issue than one of diction, but your wording sounds perfectly polite to me. Some examples from the web: Within 7 days of the expected arrival date, please take a minute to confirm if you received your merchandise by going to the transaction details. One week of work, per year, just checking notifications on email. That works out to be about 40 hours a year you spend checking pop-up notifications. It take about 5 seconds to look at each pop-up and get focused back to your work (it’s probably more like a couple of minutes). Let’s conservatively say you get 50 emails a day and get a pop-up notification for each one. Parkinson's law states, 'work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.' Keep Outlook open and it will fill your day. The quicker you respond, the quicker you get a reply. You could literally spend ALL day responding to emails and getting nothing done. While it is important to be reachable during the day, your primary job function is not to respond to emails.

Does it list 'emailing' as your job? Unless you are in tech support, the answer is probably a resounding no. While that sounds a bit snooty, go look at your job description.

If you choose have you received my email it indicates that you just want to establish receipt but not as per any specific time.

My usual response is, 'Nope, I've been working.' Answer (1 of 11): Even though it doesn’t specify, did you receive my email sets up an opportunity to establish a particular time. One of my least favorite sayings is, 'Did you get my email?'

Just checking if you received my email