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Processing Your Email

Even the best email-filtering system can’t rescue you from email altogether. At some point you’re going to have to read and reply to at least some of your messages. How you go about processing the email that hits your inbox depends on your resources, your work, and your work style.

 

Daily Triage

Once you have email rules and filters that scale the volume of messages in your inbox to the time you’ve committed to managing email, your daily (or hourly) email check-ins won’t be such a chore. Still, here are some processes and tricks that can ensure you’ll be able to spend time on the messages that matter most.

  • Read only when you can reply. One of my colleagues is religious about checking his email only when he has time to ...

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