Obsidian and what to do with it. Actually, that tool is incredible powerful, but it needs maintenance.
So, imagine you are working email and meeting based. You are a decision maker. Every day you spend ours, actually all hours, to read and write emails and to create meeting minutes. The minutes can be notes or power points.
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Based on the search results, while **no single study provides exact figures exclusively for managers in international companies**, key data points can be synthesized to estimate their daily email and note-taking volume. Below is a detailed analysis:
### 📧 **Email Volume**
1. **Emails Received**:
- The average office worker receives **121 business emails daily** . For managers in international roles, this likely increases to **150–200+ emails** due to cross-time-zone communications, multi-regional stakeholders, and higher coordination demands .
2. **Emails Sent**:
- Average office workers send **40 emails daily** . Managers typically exceed this, sending **60–100+ emails** to address escalations, delegate tasks, and align global teams .
### ⏳ **Time Spent on Email**
- Professionals spend **5–15.5 hours weekly** (1–3+ hours daily) on email . Managers often fall in the upper range (**15–20 hours weekly**), as email consumes **28% of their workweek** . This includes triaging, responding, and managing follow-ups across time zones .
### 📝 **Note-Taking Volume**
- While less quantified, note-taking is interlinked with email and meeting workflows:
- **Meeting notes**: Managers spend **35–50% of their time in meetings** , generating **3–5+ pages of notes daily** (e.g., summaries, action items).
- **Task/Project notes**: Documentation for project tracking, feedback, and decision logs adds **1–2 hours daily** .
- **Interruption recovery**: Employees spend **≥90 minutes daily** recovering focus after disruptions like email alerts , during which managers often jot ad-hoc notes.
### 🌍 **Factors Amplifying Load in International Roles**
- **Time zones**: 58% check email before bed/upon waking for global updates .
- **Collaboration tools**: Despite Slack/Teams adoption, email remains the primary channel for formal approvals and cross-client communication .
- **Data overload**: 55% of workers say email impedes primary duties , and managers face higher volumes of unactionable emails (e.g., CC'd threads) .
### 💎 **Key Estimates for Managers**
| Metric | Average Daily Volume | Notes |
|--------------------------|-----------------------------------|------------------------------------------|
| Emails Received | 150–200+ | Higher in matrixed organizations . |
| Emails Sent | 60–100+ | Includes lengthy stakeholder updates . |
| Note Pages | 5–10+ | Meeting minutes, project logs, and task lists . |
| Time on Docs | 2–3+ hours | Email composition + note synthesis . |
### ⚖️ **Strategies to Manage Volume**
- **Email**: Use scheduled check-ins (notifications off) to limit interruptions .
- **Notes**: Centralize with templates/digital tools (e.g., Google Docs) to reduce redundancy .
- **Automation**: Prioritize actionable emails (only 30% require immediate response) .
For deeper insights, refer to workplace productivity studies in . These estimates reflect aggregate trends; individual volumes vary by company size and role scope.
### 📧 **Email Volume**
1. **Emails Received**:
- The average office worker receives **121 business emails daily** . For managers in international roles, this likely increases to **150–200+ emails** due to cross-time-zone communications, multi-regional stakeholders, and higher coordination demands .
2. **Emails Sent**:
- Average office workers send **40 emails daily** . Managers typically exceed this, sending **60–100+ emails** to address escalations, delegate tasks, and align global teams .
### ⏳ **Time Spent on Email**
- Professionals spend **5–15.5 hours weekly** (1–3+ hours daily) on email . Managers often fall in the upper range (**15–20 hours weekly**), as email consumes **28% of their workweek** . This includes triaging, responding, and managing follow-ups across time zones .
### 📝 **Note-Taking Volume**
- While less quantified, note-taking is interlinked with email and meeting workflows:
- **Meeting notes**: Managers spend **35–50% of their time in meetings** , generating **3–5+ pages of notes daily** (e.g., summaries, action items).
- **Task/Project notes**: Documentation for project tracking, feedback, and decision logs adds **1–2 hours daily** .
- **Interruption recovery**: Employees spend **≥90 minutes daily** recovering focus after disruptions like email alerts , during which managers often jot ad-hoc notes.
### 🌍 **Factors Amplifying Load in International Roles**
- **Time zones**: 58% check email before bed/upon waking for global updates .
- **Collaboration tools**: Despite Slack/Teams adoption, email remains the primary channel for formal approvals and cross-client communication .
- **Data overload**: 55% of workers say email impedes primary duties , and managers face higher volumes of unactionable emails (e.g., CC'd threads) .
### 💎 **Key Estimates for Managers**
| Metric | Average Daily Volume | Notes |
|--------------------------|-----------------------------------|------------------------------------------|
| Emails Received | 150–200+ | Higher in matrixed organizations . |
| Emails Sent | 60–100+ | Includes lengthy stakeholder updates . |
| Note Pages | 5–10+ | Meeting minutes, project logs, and task lists . |
| Time on Docs | 2–3+ hours | Email composition + note synthesis . |
### ⚖️ **Strategies to Manage Volume**
- **Email**: Use scheduled check-ins (notifications off) to limit interruptions .
- **Notes**: Centralize with templates/digital tools (e.g., Google Docs) to reduce redundancy .
- **Automation**: Prioritize actionable emails (only 30% require immediate response) .
For deeper insights, refer to workplace productivity studies in . These estimates reflect aggregate trends; individual volumes vary by company size and role scope.
So, a lot. At some point this will get out of hand for even the you, before that it got out of hand for your team you work in and as well for your manager. Out of hand means that nobody understands what you are writing about, except based on your guts feeling, your impression, but in no way by any metric.
In a Key Performance Indicator driven system, that's bad. No manger of a team will ever honestly consider going through the teams emails and checking an appartements emails is litterly impossible.
With a local AI, you can export all emails, parse them to add a summary and give them keywords and import those into Obsidian creating a visual graph of connections. It will show which topics are most often, which connections there are, and list each of them on a click. You might find out that parallel email chains exist of people out of touch, you might see that another department is also having a lot of emails having a certain tag in common.
And you can talk with a local AI embedded into Obsidian about those tags, emails and connections.
I won't get money if that helps you to fix problems, but you can listen to my music beside pray for me. We all gotta eat. (right colum. Thanks)
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