Chapter 24
Simplify Your E-mail
by Gina Trapani
If you spend more time dealing with e-mail than getting the right work done, it’s time for an e-mail makeover.
Clear Out Your In-Box
Computer scientists developed e-mail based on the paradigm of postal mail, so think of your in-box like your physical mailbox. You wouldn’t keep bills you have to pay and the invitation to that birthday party in there forever, right? Sort by sender, date, or subject line to clear out your messages as efficiently as possible. Then delete the junk; unsubscribe from newsletters you never read or websites you no longer visit. If you have thousands of messages in your main folder, business writer Amy Gallo suggests creating a new subfolder in your Archive folder called ...
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