Our Friend Alan Russell asks us if we are the sort of email users who forget to attach attachments? 'More likely', he asks, 'does Eye from time to time suffer incoming messages that claim to have an attachment attached but in fact have none?'
Alan, bless him, has found a way around this internet annoyance. 'Chronically absent-minded and disorganised as I am, I have devised a routine'. And this is it:
'Make the attaching of attachments an early step in the writing of your emails. Make it a habit. Do whatever you can to build up the habit as part of the preliminaries that you carry out before getting down to writing the message itself.' And if we forget that?
'There's still hope. When you refer to the attachment in your email, make use of the reminder, break off from what you are saying and deal with the attachment straight away.'

Labels: email, technology