An overflowing inbox is no good for your productivity or your sanity. Sometimes you just have to ignore it in order to get things done. However there comes a time when you have to face the beast and deal with it. I’ve come across two tools to help when I am overwhelmed with my inbox.
I found out about this one in the South African bloggers Facebook group from Vaughan McShane.
The truth is I never have time to go through all my emails and check the unsubscribes. This app makes things easy. It allows you to sort all your emails into three groups:
unsubscribes,
keep in inbox and
roll up.
Roll up means you will get an email once a day with the emails you don’t mind getting all in one bunch. Also in this email you will get a list of new mails they have found that you can unsubscribe to. (That’s my favourite part of that mail – the rest just generally gets ignored).
This is a great tool to cut down on emails and do your unsubscribes all at once.
2. MixMax
I found out about this one from Amy Lyn Andrews’ Useletter. (She also has some useful Gmail tips)
Mixmax is a Chrome extension, so it will only work when your email is in the Chrome browser. There is a lot this extension can do, like scheduling emails, but I haven’t really been using that so much.
What I have been using is:
-seeing when people have opened emails
-snoozing emails: When you get an email that you know requires a lot of attention and you don’t have the time for it now, you can “snooze” it. This means you can set it to reappear in your inbox later – that same day or on a different date. This is really good in that you won’t forget to do it.
Do you have any tips for taming the inbox?
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