Is "empty email inbox" possible?
Channel: Swine Campus • by Wisenetix
Date: 2020-05-04

This one is a tough goal, but I think it is well worth it. But why? I think it brings you peace of mind knowing that you got it under control. But how? I try to at least once a week make sure that there are “no emails left behind” by sorting the emails by “From” instead of “Date” like we normally have. This way it makes it quite a bit faster to screen through what is left. During the week, my goal is to reply to most emails within 24 hours. If any email needs to have some larger amount of work completed, I flag them. I also configure my email software to not empty the trash folder. This way, I can “delete” an email but it is not actually deleted, just go to the trash can and if I need to search it later I can. It makes my cleaning process easy because it takes me one keyboard stroke to ‘archive’ it. For me, there are normally 20-50 emails flagged waiting for some type of action or milestone.

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