Over a quarter (26%) of workers struggle to prioritize daily tasks, citing the lack of a system and the effort needed to create one as the major reasons why. In a busy agency where every minute counts, these “systems” can mean the difference between success and failure — making project management tools a top priority. On the surface, email project planning tools may seem like an obvious solution.

If you work in an agency or do any client work, your world likely revolves around your inbox. But what happens when what your world revolves around is completely and utterly...chaotic? Enter, inbox overload. In fact, it's more likely that most mornings you don’t even want to “enter” your inbox for fear of what you might find, or fall behind on! All joking aside, it is something to take seriously.

Is responding to emails eating away at your time? Read our productivity tracking and optimization tips to spend less time bogged down in your inbox.

Did you know that email subjects, by default, only support 127 characters?! I didn’t, and I ran into a “fun” puzzle of a problem earlier this year when a client of ours noticed a problem with Courier-built emails in Microsoft Outlook. Small rendering issues and bugs like this can give the wrong impression to a recipient of an email. It can make the end user feel the product they are using is poorly planned or not tested.