two.sentenc.es

A very focused website with an idea, so I’ll just quote the whole thing.

The Problem

E-mail takes too long to respond to, resulting in continuous inbox overflow for those who receive a lot of it.

The Solution

Treat all email responses like SMS text messages, using a set number of letters per response. Since it’s too hard to count letters, we count sentences instead.

two.sentenc.es is a personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be two sentences or less. It’s that simple.

There are also three-, four-, and five-sentence versions.

I like a good focused email, for sure. No need to be extra wordy in an email or provide a bunch of context that could be implied or linked to.

But I’m not sure it needs to be so dogmatic. I think of some very long emails I get with information about being a speaker at a conference, and those emails can be great.

Emails should just be as long as they need to be.