Managing email: determine the priority
Once you've got the flow of email reduced to messages that matter, it's time to clear the non-urgent out of your inbox.
- Reply if a very quick reply is possible, like Thanks or Great or On it.
- Reply with a macro if one of your pre-written replies works.
- Forward/Delegate emails that others can handle.
- Process later. The "to process" is the second folder.
- Archive or delete if no further action is needed.
Once this is done, only the deeply urgent things are left.
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