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"There\u2019s probably not a professional in America who doesn\u2019t feel like email is taking over his or her life, and who hasn\u2019t spent the better part of an hour crafting an important message. Sound familiar?\nWell,\u00A0we\u2019re big fans of keeping emails short\u00A0and productive, so we loved coming across a simple rule that can solve both of those issues: Commit to making every message five sentences long \u2014 or less.\nSure, you could just commit to writing less or making your emails shorter, but there\u2019s something about having a true limit that ensures you really stick to your goal. There\u2019s also a site that\u2019s built to help:\u00A0five.sentenc.es. As it explains, \u201CTreat all email responses like SMS text messages, using a set number of letters per response. Since it\u2019s too hard to count letters, we count sentences instead.\u201D\nNeed some advice on keeping things brief, but still polite?\u00A0Elliott Bell has some great tips. And if you\u2019re still worried about how people will react to your brevity, the site has built-in text you can add on to your email signature to explain why your messages are so short (and\u2014hint, hint\u2014encourage them to keep things snappy, too).\nWe like the five-sentence rule (as author and entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki explains, \u201CLess than five sentences is often abrupt and rude, more than five sentences wastes time\u201D), but for an even bigger challenge, you could try sister sites\u00A0four.sentenc.es,\u00A0three.sentenc.es\u00A0or\u00A0two.sentenc.es\nMight be getting a\u00A0little\u00A0crazy, but hey \u2014 try it and let us know how it goes!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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