10 Tips to Turn Down Email Volume

1. Unsubscribe - be ruthless, love'em or dump'em . I love unroll.me for this!

2. White space - aim to see white at the bottom of your list of emails

3. Silence - turn off email sound notifications

4. Calendarize - drag & drop emails to your calendar or tag the email as an event to a day

5. Prioritize - use colour categories to highlight and or flags to classify emails for example red for ASAP, yellow for pending, grey for reference

6. Segregate - set up emails strategically - one work, one personal, one for very high priority info and one for deals and subscriptions and give the appropriate focus to each one.

7. 2 min - if you can take care of it in 2 minutes - do it

8. Search - save time and use it often to find emails

9. Rules - use rules to highlight emails you need to pay attention to or to direct emails to a folder like "news"

10. Appointment - set a time and a time limit to emailing

BONUS tip - avoid email first thing in a day, save that for strategic thinking or meditation

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