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Pro tip: I was sending my boss daily status emails for 4 months before I caught what I was doing wrong
I sent my manager a daily recap email at 5pm every day for about 4 months, always with the same subject line format, and one Tuesday in March my coworker Priya asked why I never just replied in the same thread so it would collapse cleanly in her inbox. Turns out she had 60 separate emails from me cluttering things up because I kept starting fresh threads instead of hitting reply. Is there a cleaner way to do the recap thing or am I overthinking this?
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tessa_hill8616h ago
Wait, did Priya mean replies in the same thread that still go to your boss only, or was she saying she was copied on all of them? Because if she's just watching from the side, replying to yourself in one thread fixes it, but if your boss wants a fresh subject each week you could do one thread per week and just note the date in the body. Either way the same-thread reply is the move, since her inbox folds it into one line and your boss can still scroll back through the whole history.
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