If you have trouble prioritizing the tsunami of email in your inbox, Microsofts Scott Hanselman has a trick: divide your inbox up into three simple categories: Inbox, CC, and External.
Belle Beth Cooper explains what this looks like:
Scott uses filters to send incoming emails
- into three different inboxes
one for external emails (anyone outside his company), another for any emails hes CCd on, and a last one for all internal company emails sent directly to Scott.
Inbox
Inbox - CC
Inbox - External
This is a really good way to manage the time and energy you put into processing emails, because you could prioritize external emails if you want to (as Scott does) without wasting time looking for them in your inboxor getting distracted by internal emails instead.
you’re able to do this any way you wantusing folders,Gmails Multiple Inboxes feature, orthis (unsupported and possibly account-breaking) hack.
Ive been doing it for awhile, and its much easier to know what to prioritize when you’re free to see who the email is coming from at a glance.
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