From the course: Productivity Tips: Taking Control of Email

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Deal with email overload

Deal with email overload

From the course: Productivity Tips: Taking Control of Email

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Deal with email overload

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- It's easy to get buried by email, and not know how to dig yourself out. Perhaps you have hundreds or thousands of emails in your inbox. Here are some tips to get you out of that situation. First, get in the habit of using your calendar. Sometimes people store emails in their inbox in the hopes that it will remind them of unresolved tasks. Instead, schedule time to complete those tasks in your calendar or use task reminders that pop up at appropriate times. Second, whenever you are done with an email, archive it or delete it. Email search engines are powerful and you don't need to keep everything in your inbox. Instead, use the archive or designate one folder for archiving all your email. Use the inbox only for incomplete or unprocessed items. Third, create a schedule to deal with email in a focused way. This means that you have a recurring time every day or multiple times a week where you do nothing but respond to…

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