Question Of The Day – Breakfast Or Emails?
Today’s Question of The Day :
What comes first in your day? Having breakfast or checking emails / RSS feeds?
Are you someone who has their laptop / iPhone next to the bed to check online as soon as you wake up? Or do you prefer to have your cornflakes first?
Let us know in the comments!
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(By) Mark O'Neill is the managing editor of MakeUseOf.
I do them both. I wake up, start the coffee, shower, 2 sandwiches and then i sit in front of my pc, reading news & mails.
My gf thinks i`m obsessed. I admit i am.
Sometimes when i expect to have some important mails, i take my iPhone and read them in bed
e-mail! I just roll over and turn my laptop on. Normally it’s within arms reach because I normally work until I’m too tired to make educated decisions.
None of the above. A cigarette, a cup of coffee and then my PC.
I always have my BlackBerry next to my bed to charge and so the first thing I do every morning is pick it up and read email and whatever else until I wake up enough to get out of bed. I’m not a morning person. Fortunately for my wife, she is a morning person so she just gets up when my alarm goes off most mornings even if she doesn’t have to.
Reading the BlackBerry is often the last thing I do before bed too, excluding the physical things with my wife of course. Although not always email, I also use my BlackBerry for reading books on MobiPocket. Since I’m a night person I often find a book helpful in falling asleep. I find the BlackBerry perfect for that since it’s small and has a built in light so it doesn’t keep my wife awake. The text is a little small, but I’m nearsighted, so I haven’t had too many problems and hopefully won’t for the next 5 or 10 years until eBooks become better.
I like to prepare my breakfast first and eat it at the computer. The sooner I get out of bed and get some food in me, the sooner I can wake up and get on with my day.
I have my iphone next to my bed so first thing is to check emails and world stock markets
Set coffee on first, then straight to computer.
Of course email! My laptop is always next to my bed, when not on it… Email, RSS, twitter, and then maybe milk or coffee…
i wake up, head straight for computer, check emails, rss, forums, torrents, mush games i play, etc…
shower next, then breakfast at around 7.15am (weet-bix, love it).
i have a laptop plugged in next to my bed too.
I have an iPhone next to the bed too and so I check my email. Then I go downstairs and make coffee and while it is brewing start browsing my rss feeds using feedly in Firefox. Breakfast comes later…
A college student, whose laptop sits on the side of the bed. Wake up, check email/feeds, sleep, miss class, really wake up, library, brunch.
you have to ask? email & rss feed & twitter. i get up early & go straight to work so i have time to do this before my first meeting!
6 steps to a good morning.
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1) Wake up
2) Turn kettle on
3) Exercise
4) Make coffee and cereal
5) Sit at desk with coffee and cereal
6) Read email, news feeds, etc while having breakfast
Emails and RSS comes first
First is shower… then having breakfast on the way to work, buy a coffee on the way, drink it in front of my computer, read my mails, set my team daily work.
Of course e-mail) ICQ, new comments moderation, smoking and breakfast.
Email. The alarm on the android goes off and I see the @ sign and the number of emails before I get out of bed. What a geek.
I normally wake up and turn on my laptop in bed. If I don’t have that I’ll use my phone to check RSS feeds and e-mails. THEN my day starts
Funny you should ask this as I am currently eating breakfast while reading your newsletter!
It seems the cats always come first. While the coffee’s brewing, a little snack. Then the coffee and computer can last a while.
Both…get breakfast and then sit down to read.
Breakfast for sure! I can’t do anything with out something in my belly.
Hi MUO,
You guy always ask for comments, well you twisted my arm =D
I love MUO, look forward to it everyday, it’s the best thing in cyberspace!
I (and my daughters) check our email/facebook and then we eat.
Thanks for all your effort and keep up the good work!
My morning
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on mon-fri
1) wake up
2) do school
3) check email
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on sat & sun
1) wake up at 3:00am
2) check email!
Definitely checking e-mail and Twitter. Laptop and iPhone never too far from bedside and it’s the first thing I do after the alarm clock goes off.
i cannot live without my laptop so the first thing i do when i wake up its take my laptop i have it next to my bed for to check my emails and news that are very important for me and when i finish to check all then i eat
i cannot be with my pc so eating i continue browsing the internet
and yes i admit i’m a total addict to the internet
Check e-mail, then realise I should have put the coffee on first
Run, then shower, then emails, then breakfast (on good days), OR breakfast, then emails (on bad days).
at the same time?
Android in one hand flipping through mail, rss, tweets. Sppon in right digging through the cereal.. and they say men can’t multitask!
Guilty!! I have my laptop under my bed. So when I wake up in the morning I pull it out right away and check to see what’s going on online.
06:00 to 07:00 Google Reader (RSS)
07:00 Urgent EMails only
07:30 Breakfast, Getting Ready, and Go to Work…