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Work email

An email frame that puts the ask in the subject and first line, narrowed to one request.

How to use it

Work emails grow long not because there is much to say but because the ask was never pinned down. This frame puts what you want in the subject and first line, so the reader can act without finishing the body.

Split the request into what and by when. Keep the background to only what is needed to decide, and move the rest to a link or attachment.

How it opens in the editor

Open the template and this skeleton lands in the editor, with Cite, Paper and File ready in the toolbar.

[By 8/25] Choose between design draft A or B

To:, Cc:, From:

The ask

State what you want in one sentence, first.

Context

Only what is needed to decide, two or three lines.

Request

  • What, and by when. One item only.

Closing

Instead of a courtesy line, restate what the reader does next.

Editor features that go with it