Sterling Terrell

Here’s to five sentence email.

Five sentences or less, that is.

I just love this from: http://five.sentenc.es/

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.

They even suggest adding the following to the end of your emails:

Q: Why is this email five sentences or less?
A: http://five.sentenc.es

Let’s have more simple and clear writing.

Just. Like. This.