18 thoughts on “6 ways to create calm from the chaos of your inbox”
Okay, You’ve officially inspired me to FINALLY do this!!! If you can do it, I can do it right?!? haha Wish me luck, I think I’m up to 8,000!
Luck! x
Unread emails can really stress me out and make me nervous… I did unsubscribe of a lot of newsletters a while ago and it already helped me!
I check so many times but I do read, answer and delete so I never have unread for long and I file away anything I need to keep then monthly go through the folders and delete from there too.. should have been a PA I tell you x
I try to read and reply as soon as emails come in BUT I really need to get onto folders. I tend to hold onto emails that I probably don’t need and at least sorting them into folders will clear my inbox up a little bit.
Great tips! x
These are all great ideas! And I want to encourage you to go ahead & write your “canned” responses. You will be amazed at what a time saver that will be for you! When I was working in the banking/finance field we had a very large volume of email inquiries/requests that came in to us through our website and our internet home banking service. We organized and wrote our “canned” responses & created a shared folder that they could be copy/pasted from. The responses could still be personalized by using the person’s name & any significant details that you wanted to include but the format & the major content was already pre-done for you & the spelling and grammar had already been checked on this part. I can’t tell you how much of a time saver this was for us especially during peak periods where our volume would soar!
I check a few times a day. My biggest problem is multiple devices, phone, iPad, MacBook, they don’t talk to each other and so I am checking the same email 3 times! Of course there may be a way to fix this, I’m really not that computer savvy.
Great post! Another tip i use is catagories (in outlook) that way anything un catagorised is something i need to action. Everything catagorised i need to keep for reference. Currently im at 132 uncatagorised so i need to do an inbox clean up soon.
I totes need to do this. My inbox runneth over. Love this post. FAVOURITED. x
Great tips – I love flags!
I have all my emails from all my personal accounts (yes, I have several) coming to my mobile, so I tend to read them as soon as they arrive. But since it’s a pain trying to answer to any email through my mobile, I tend to forget that part, which makes me feel like a bad person 🙁 Work email doesn’t come to my mobile tho, I like to keep that totally separate! I use flags and marking unread too, both at work and personal emails, and usually it’s working great! But a few times there have been so many flagged emails that they start to disappear into the mass and I still forget about them…
I so need this! I cant get my emails under control anymore…over 100 still to look at 🙂 I really like the idea of delete,and unsubscribing – I have too many that come in that I dont even look at 😉
But, but, but… if I unsubscribe to everything, I won’t get your wonderful posts!!!! Can I keep just a couple? 😛 Sometimes I have to just flag everything and get to them on the weekends, but then I make myself take the time to get thru everything and sort, take care of, and read it all. I check daily to make sure I don’t have anything vital to address that day, but usually it’s the weekend that I clean it all up. But, unsubscribing to about 150 different scrapping e-mails was very freeing! AND has saved me tons of money!!!!!
I usually have a fairly calm inbox unless I have a deadline for a photo editing job or am extremely busy…the last few weeks I’ve been extremely busy and have had severeal deadlines which sucks cuz now I have like 600 unopened emails (I used to have 700 yesterday so I knocked out quite a few today!!). I hate getting so far behind…I don’t want to unsubscribe from all the wonderful blogs I follow though plus I have all my other business emails and such so I have to keep up with those too (those I keep up with much better…the remaining unopened right now are mostly stuff to do with blogging). I will probably get a more organized structure put together for this soon though since it does bother me when it gets this far behind.
Helen
Blue Eyed Beauty Blog
Yep I did all this and more! I changed my email address and moved on and only subscribed to the LIST I created for myself that I really couldn’t live without!
Hey there! I’m at work surfing around your blog from my new apple iphone! Just wanted to say I love reading through your blog and look forward to all your posts! Keep up the outstanding work!
It is fundamental then that household or health providers guide the patient’s attitude because depression complicates the sickness which could bring about early morbidity. Pessimistic behavior: you can find people who have a bad behavior, low self-esteem or pessimist. These types of individuals are the one who suffers greatly on account of depression, as Behavior also plays a huge role in depression.. People experiencing insomnia will have a quick short term relief from the said disease.
I became honored to obtain a call coming from a friend as he identified the important points shared on your own site. Looking at your blog write-up is a real amazing experience. Thanks again for taking into consideration readers like me, and I hope for you the best of achievements as being a professional in this arena.
Okay, You’ve officially inspired me to FINALLY do this!!! If you can do it, I can do it right?!? haha Wish me luck, I think I’m up to 8,000!
Luck! x
Unread emails can really stress me out and make me nervous… I did unsubscribe of a lot of newsletters a while ago and it already helped me!
I check so many times but I do read, answer and delete so I never have unread for long and I file away anything I need to keep then monthly go through the folders and delete from there too.. should have been a PA I tell you x
I try to read and reply as soon as emails come in BUT I really need to get onto folders. I tend to hold onto emails that I probably don’t need and at least sorting them into folders will clear my inbox up a little bit.
Great tips! x
These are all great ideas! And I want to encourage you to go ahead & write your “canned” responses. You will be amazed at what a time saver that will be for you! When I was working in the banking/finance field we had a very large volume of email inquiries/requests that came in to us through our website and our internet home banking service. We organized and wrote our “canned” responses & created a shared folder that they could be copy/pasted from. The responses could still be personalized by using the person’s name & any significant details that you wanted to include but the format & the major content was already pre-done for you & the spelling and grammar had already been checked on this part. I can’t tell you how much of a time saver this was for us especially during peak periods where our volume would soar!
I check a few times a day. My biggest problem is multiple devices, phone, iPad, MacBook, they don’t talk to each other and so I am checking the same email 3 times! Of course there may be a way to fix this, I’m really not that computer savvy.
Great post! Another tip i use is catagories (in outlook) that way anything un catagorised is something i need to action. Everything catagorised i need to keep for reference. Currently im at 132 uncatagorised so i need to do an inbox clean up soon.
I totes need to do this. My inbox runneth over. Love this post. FAVOURITED. x
Great tips – I love flags!
I have all my emails from all my personal accounts (yes, I have several) coming to my mobile, so I tend to read them as soon as they arrive. But since it’s a pain trying to answer to any email through my mobile, I tend to forget that part, which makes me feel like a bad person 🙁 Work email doesn’t come to my mobile tho, I like to keep that totally separate! I use flags and marking unread too, both at work and personal emails, and usually it’s working great! But a few times there have been so many flagged emails that they start to disappear into the mass and I still forget about them…
I so need this! I cant get my emails under control anymore…over 100 still to look at 🙂 I really like the idea of delete,and unsubscribing – I have too many that come in that I dont even look at 😉
But, but, but… if I unsubscribe to everything, I won’t get your wonderful posts!!!! Can I keep just a couple? 😛 Sometimes I have to just flag everything and get to them on the weekends, but then I make myself take the time to get thru everything and sort, take care of, and read it all. I check daily to make sure I don’t have anything vital to address that day, but usually it’s the weekend that I clean it all up. But, unsubscribing to about 150 different scrapping e-mails was very freeing! AND has saved me tons of money!!!!!
I usually have a fairly calm inbox unless I have a deadline for a photo editing job or am extremely busy…the last few weeks I’ve been extremely busy and have had severeal deadlines which sucks cuz now I have like 600 unopened emails (I used to have 700 yesterday so I knocked out quite a few today!!). I hate getting so far behind…I don’t want to unsubscribe from all the wonderful blogs I follow though plus I have all my other business emails and such so I have to keep up with those too (those I keep up with much better…the remaining unopened right now are mostly stuff to do with blogging). I will probably get a more organized structure put together for this soon though since it does bother me when it gets this far behind.
Helen
Blue Eyed Beauty Blog
Yep I did all this and more! I changed my email address and moved on and only subscribed to the LIST I created for myself that I really couldn’t live without!
Hey there! I’m at work surfing around your blog from my new apple iphone! Just wanted to say I love reading through your blog and look forward to all your posts! Keep up the outstanding work!
It is fundamental then that household or health providers guide the patient’s attitude because depression complicates the sickness which could bring about early morbidity. Pessimistic behavior: you can find people who have a bad behavior, low self-esteem or pessimist. These types of individuals are the one who suffers greatly on account of depression, as Behavior also plays a huge role in depression.. People experiencing insomnia will have a quick short term relief from the said disease.
I became honored to obtain a call coming from a friend as he identified the important points shared on your own site. Looking at your blog write-up is a real amazing experience. Thanks again for taking into consideration readers like me, and I hope for you the best of achievements as being a professional in this arena.