Comments on: How To Take Control of Your Overflowing Email Inbox

By: Hutch

Hutch — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 17:20:30 +0000

Hi, Simliar to Lauren, I set a rule to move all email that has the word “unsubscribe” within it to a separate folder. Though not perfect it has been helpful.

By: Joy

Joy — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 17:42:17 +0000

I set due dates for my emails according to priority. In outlook, you can make a setting that shows your flagged due date in your in-box messages and list them chronologically. This way, you can view your emails daily and see what is also due that day. You can set these deadlines according to the contents of the email (meetings, to do , etc) or just set your own deadlines to make sure you don’t forget about them. For example, all my low priorities are set for the slowest day of my week (Friday) so I can clean my in-box up with misc emails that need to be .

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 17:39:17 +0000

In reply to Greg Vasquez.

I also use filtering for UNimportant e-mails. If I don’t want to unsubscribe, I’ll automatically mark them as “read” (in the past tense, not as a to-do) and filter them into a separate box like “Newsletters” or “Marketing.” I never even look at most of them, but if I do happen to need something from a particular agency, I know where to find it.

By: Greg Vasquez

Greg Vasquez — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 15:20:26 +0000

Another way to manage e-mail is to use technology to filter it. For example, filters can be used to flag e-mail from people who are known to send important information, and key words can be flagged too, so you can prioritize incoming e-mail. Additionally, clients can be given an alias e-mail, so their messages can be segregated and identified for prioritization. Your IT support can help you sift through the noise.

I hope this is helpful.
Greg