## you need a "waiting for" folder
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If you don't already have a "waiting for" folder in your email, you need one. This is the folder I keep in my email where I drag sent messages that I'm
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> If you don’t already have a “waiting for” folder in your email, you need one.
>This is the folder I keep in my email where I drag sent messages that I’m waiting for a response on.
>I go through it basically daily, and it’s fascinating to see how often I haven’t heard back about something and need to follow up on it, and which I otherwise might have forgotten about until the lack of answer popped up as a problem.
>I do this not just for work emails, but personal ones too, like the person in my homeowners association who was supposed to get me an answer to a question about dues but didn’t, or any other question that I need the answer to but might otherwise forget that I’m waiting on until months later.
>Yes, this does make me the annoying person who will follow up with you when it’s been a week since I emailed you a question and I haven’t heard back. It also makes me the person who gets the answers I need and doesn’t discover weeks later that some crucial bit of info never arrived.