Adrian, thank you for the comment.

So for you, time is of importance and certain e-mails can wait before you respond to them. Does this mean you respond to all business emails immediately?

The subconscious mind, thanks for sharing too.

I have not used eprompter yet I think. What do you do if you are at a computer away from home or a computer without that software?

company information, thanks for the comment. A question: is there some other more specific username I can call you with please?

Forgetting to reply is one of the results of not responding immediately, and I have to think about that all the time. So, you respond to both personal and non-personal emails right away?

Siddha, thanks for the comment and sharing too.

True, sometimes not getting a response for a long time can upset people. Like this comment of mine, for example; I apologize if responding late to this has upset anyone including you.

Jack Page, thanks for sharing. The backlog does indeed become problematic in several cases later on.

For example, I am now replying to about 63 comments that I waited solely because of wanting to think more about many comments before responding. Now I am hoping to finish it all.

Mark - London, thanks for the comment, and for sharing that term.

Leaving decisions for later in many cases does seem like a bad idea, specially if things keep piling up as Jack Page [above mentions].

Maybe we need a good way of managing pile ups in an effective and timely manner also?

Karen, thanks for coming and commenting.

Do you mean the importance of the sender of the e-mail, or the nature of the e-mail itself? For example, what if it is an important e-mail from someone who is not close to you, or an unimportant email from someone who is close to you?

Pelf, thank you also for coming and commenting.

I like that way of looking at it; viewing “the same email twice.” I also sometimes let a lot of my responses and replies develop in my head before responding. Of course, that results in a huge backlog of warranted responses in many cases also.

When you say “pushed into the second page“, do you mean the page of completed actions metaphorically, or something literal in a program like Thunderbird or Outlook?

Thanks again! I really appreciate it, and I am learning a lot too about managing e-mails and responses and similar correspondence.

If an email require some lengthy explanation or a difficult discussion, I will not reply straight away, but let my responses incubate at the back of my mind (I have a habit of thinking about things and forming sentences whenever I am driving or in the shower) before replying it.

If an email requires a detailed response, I would star it, but I will make sure that I “unstar” it before it is pushed into the second page (otherwise I will forget about it!).

And if it is not that important, I check them in the evening when I am totally free every day.

Do you use any e-mail client to manage e-mails? I am starting to rely solely on Thunderbird a bit more now to let me know which e-mals to reply to, and not my memory. That way, I can think a bit less about that and not have to remember the number and types of responses I have to deal with all the time, and hoping all the time too that I remember things on time.

I have some e-mails that I have not responded to in about 2 months, as they require some detailed responses. I just remembered, after reading your comment, another e-mail that I probably forgot to reply to. I wonder if I can reply now, apologize and not get laughed at by that other person.