• Unsubscribe from or filter away the stuff you never read.
• Disable email push notifications on your phone.
• Check emails twice per day to limit the time it takes to check and switch tasks while batch-processing your emails.
• Structure your emails in blocks to allow for automation of parts of it.
• Use canned responses for repeated answers.
• Archive nonurgent messages to reduce your inbox.
• Quote the sender’s email in chunks, replying to each section to avoid confusion.
• Separate your to-do list from your inbox.
• Use a pattern like ‘verb the noun with the object’ in your subject lines to make it more efficient for others to read it.
• Clear your emails by the end of the day so things won’t accumulate for the next one.

Ask yourself:

• What’s the meaning and the value of the message?
• What action does this message require of me?