I wish everyone would treat email as the temporal medium it is.
It's fine to use email to announce for example that a new procedure/policy exists, but if it's not posted in some canonical location (where the latest copy will always be found) it might as well not exist. Email is where your keystrokes go to die.
Just the other day I asked about something and was forwarded a document titled ".... FINAL-v2 (July 2017)". I can't tell you how much that enrages me.
The problem with email is that it ported letter writing culture to the internet. A big internal announcement at my company can take days to write and undergoes multiple rounds of review.
Once people have put in that effort they aren’t going to bother redoing the effort for another medium. Meeting notes are the same way.
It's fine to use email to announce for example that a new procedure/policy exists, but if it's not posted in some canonical location (where the latest copy will always be found) it might as well not exist. Email is where your keystrokes go to die.
Just the other day I asked about something and was forwarded a document titled ".... FINAL-v2 (July 2017)". I can't tell you how much that enrages me.
[1] https://jamesclear.com/keystrokes