1. Create a folder in your email inbox named “sort”.
2. Pick a topic that describes several of your unread messages.
3. Move all messages related to that topic into the sort folder.
4. Go into the folder and process the messages until the folder is empty.
5. Return to your i...

All your emails fit into one of the following 6 categories:

• Respond today: reply immediately if urgent, at the end of the workday if important
• Respond later: schedule time in the calendar in the future to reply
• Optional response: no need to respond,...

• Keep it short.
• Make it scannable: use short paragraphs and formatting to make sure your content is read.
• Know what you want to communicate.
• Bold the important.
• Keep conversations small: only include the people who need to be ...

think of every email you get as either something you need to take action on, track, or refer to later. 

Every time you open a conversation, decide right away what to do with it. Don’t postpone and come back to it. You touch it once and move on.

Some examples:

• Undo Send: for when you accidentally press the send button.
• Canned Responses: create a template that you can reuse with canned responses.
• Send and Archive: Automatically archive an email after replying to it using the send and archive...

Train other people to respect your productivity, work, and time by using an automatic response. Long-term sustainable email productivity is about selective ignorance.

Let people know you’re checking emails less often in order to be more productive.

• Unsubscribe: from anything you don’t need, such as newsletters, groups, mailing lists, and notifications. 
• Send fewer emails: to get less email, send less. 
• Be succinct: Reply to every email in three sentences or less
• Respond with statement...