Do you use your smartphone to waste time on e-mail double processing?

[TesTeq]

GTD Times post Is Your Smartphone Making You Less Productive? comments:

I think the greater loss of productivity for me is that I tend to read email messages on my phone, but wait to respond to most of them until I am back at my computer. That means I process them twice – if I remember to.

Double processing of my mails + risk to forget to reply because they are marked as read even on my PC + I’m never fully present / always connected.

Mike & Max,

Does your smartphone force you to double process your mails???

I’ve got Nokia E71 with mail functionality that I have never configured. My smartphone is my tool – not my master. A person that really needs my immediate response can call me.

Do you use your smartphone to waste time on e-mail double processing?

[PatinSC]

No, but I cannot claim any special will-power here. It's just that I work from home, with both work and personal e-mail right here on the same computer, and I don't travel.

[Oogiem]

Do you use your smartphone to waste time on e-mail double processing?

No, I don't process e-mail or read it on my phone except is specific circumstances such as I'm traveling away from my computer and I need to be watching for a specific e-mail to so something while I am out. In those special cases I do end up processing twice as I get the e-mail on my phone but don't really process other than to delete off the phone the unwanted stuff and handle the one I am waiting for and then get all the e-mail again and really process it when I finally get back to my computer.

[John_Hammond]

I do that from time to time, but mostly when I am waiting for an important email. I have linked my phone only with my personal email, but I check my work email through the web interface (which is slow, ugly and non user-friendly

[PaulK]

I archive, delete and do quick replies from my phone, but usually try to wait for iPad or desktop to reply to long email. I often forward an email to Toodledo from my phone with appropriate context and status to get it into my list manager.

I try to avoid processing twice.

[jesig]

I don't consider replying later "processing twice," I just consider it a delayed next action.

I got an iPhone almost a year ago, and run gMail's app on it. When I go through my e-mail on my phone, I treat it just as I would a regular session with my inbox, except that perhaps the "two-minute" rule becomes more like a "thirty-second" rule and/or "would I be mortified if an autocorrect error wound up in this email" rule.

I archive, label, and delete from my phone, answer any quick "Thanks!" kinds of emails, and then label the remainder @action so that I'll come back to them when I have a real keyboard.

[TesTeq]

I archive, label, and delete from my phone, answer any quick "Thanks!" kinds of emails, and then label the remainder @action so that I'll come back to them when I have a real keyboard.

Shouldn't we avoid sending "Thanks!" emails? Isn't it just a distraction and a recipient's inbox overloading?