Making email work in your favor: upgrade your tools
- Use an email service with a great search tool so you can find archived messages with ease.
- Delete all those folders. If you use an email service with a great search function, you don't need many folders. Instead, create one big archive and use the search function.
- Get a to-do app. Many people use email as a to-do list, but then have to re-read the emails and reinterpret what they need to do.
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