817 Notes To Self

7. There is no need for answerphone messages.

Unless you only have a landline, cut out answerphone messaging from your life. Why?

i) You could send a text. The message is read and understood quicker and easier.

ii) Leaving a message takes time, as does picking it up. On some contracts, it also costs money.

iii) If your message is too complicated for a text, email. No character limit, no problems.

iv) Voicemail greetings are just encouraging idiots to be even more annoying than they normally are.

v) You invariably lose your train of thought leaving one, and end up looking like a clown. No one wants that.