If your job is anything like mine, a large chunk of your day is probably spent reading and responding to emails. It is exhausting! It is my least favorite part of the work day, but I found a simple hack to make it more enjoyable!
Here’s what I do:
I no longer read emails. I just listen to them! Yup, that’s right. You can actually have Siri or Google read your emails to you. It surprisingly sounds pretty good too.
Here’s how to do it:
- Highlight the text in the email you want to read.
- Right click on the highlighted text
- Hover over “speech” and click “start speaking”
- Now just sit back and listen while a slightly robotic-sounding voice reads your email to you
I used to dread reading those page-long emails that show up in my inbox, but now I just close my eyes and listen. This hack has saved me a lot of time and made the worst part of my job so much easier.
Tip: Listening to your own email responses is a great way to proofread too.
You can also use this method to listen to online articles and blog posts. Just follow the steps above on any website and browser.