From the course: Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done (Blinkist Summary)
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Priorities and expectations
From the course: Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done (Blinkist Summary)
Priorities and expectations
- [Instructor] Blink number five. Organize your emails into prioritized folders and use quick replies that set expectations. If you ever looked at your hundreds of unread email messages and thought, there has to be a better way. Well, you were onto something. There are some easy tips and tricks to help you make the most of your daily batches of time. The first is to customize your inbox and create useful folders. With the right settings, your incoming emails will even organize themselves. To start with, you can set up different folders with varying degrees of prioritization. This way emails from your boss and other important coworkers will be directly to a devoted folder marked urgent. Those from other contacts will go into other folders that remind you it's okay not to deal with them immediately. Separating important messages from less important messages will make it that much easier to maintain your productivity. You can…
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